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Intel Core i9-14900KF is officially the fastest ever CPU with record-breaking overclock – and the best is yet to come

Intel’s Core i9-14900KF has just been released, and the flagship Raptor Lake Refresh processor has broken the previous world record for overclocking.The Core i9-14900KF – which is the same as the plain 14900K, it just doesn’t have integrated graphics – was ramped up to 9044MHz (or 9.04GHz) by a team of overclockers from Asus (including…

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Intel said 14th-gen desktop CPUs support Thunderbolt 5 – but it turns out that was a mistake

Intel has corrected itself when it comes to the new Raptor Lake Refresh range of desktop processors, clarifying that these 14th-gen chips won’t support Thunderbolt 5 after all.When Raptor Lake Refresh launched, Intel’s release statement observed that the 14th-gen processors “include support for … upcoming Thunderbolt 5 wired connectivity.”A correction has now been issued –…

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Could Nvidia scrap the RTX 4080 graphics card? New rumor suggests it might

Nvidia might be mulling scrapping the RTX 4080 graphics card, if a fresh rumor pans out – but clearly this is one we should regard with a large amount of skepticism.For starters, the source of the rumor is IT Home (via Tom’s Hardware), a Chinese tech site with a somewhat patchy record, with the actual…

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Intel developing its own stacked cache tech to compete with AMD 3D V-Cache

Intel is working on its own version of stable cache that AMD pioneered with its 3D V-Cache technology, though it is still at least a couple of generations away.Following Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s Intel Innovation 2023 keynote, Gelsinger held a Q+A session with members of the press where he was asked if Intel would adopt…

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Core i7-14700KF leak gets us even more excited for Intel’s 14th-gen desktop CPU

Intel’s Core i7-14700K is again causing some excitement thanks to a leak for this incoming Raptor Lake Refresh processor, which is increasingly seeming like it will be the star of the 14th-gen desktop show.The watchful eye of our sister site Tom’s Hardware turned up the new leak for the Core i7-14700KF on X (formerly Twitter),…

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Intel Core i5-14600K leak suggests a mid-range CPU that’s worth getting excited about

Intel’s Core i5-14600K has turned up in a leak that shows the incoming desktop CPU for Raptor Lake Refresh is still looking promising.Tom’s Hardware flagged up the benchmark result for the 14600K, which was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Benchleaks, an account that posts a good deal of benchmark spillage as the name suggests.[GB6…

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Nvidia RTX 3060 grabs the top spot for Steam GPUs – but is something else happening here?

Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics card has made a big leap to take the top spot in the ranking of the most popular GPUs used on Steam, according to the latest hardware survey conducted by Valve.The survey data for September shows that the RTX 3060 rose from 4.87% the previous month, where it was in second…

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Intel leak suggests MacBook-beating laptops could trouble Apple sooner than expected

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have been somewhat under the radar thus far, so it’s interesting to see a leak pop up around the future CPUs.As a quick refresher – the various lakes Intel employs are confusingly numerous – the next-gen chips from Intel are Meteor Lake (laptop chips, due in December) and Raptor Lake Refresh…

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Samsung T9 Portable SSD Review: A 20 Gbps PSSD for Prosumer Workloads

Samsung’s portable SSD lineup has enjoyed significant market success since the launch of the T1 back in 2015. Despite the release of the Thunderbolt-capable X5 PSSD in 2018, the company has been focusing primarily on the mainstream market with its T series drives. The first set of PSSDs from Samsung incorporated a SATA SSD behind…

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