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AMD’s Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug – and while there’s a ‘fix’ you absolutely shouldn’t use it

AMD’s Ryzen processors are seemingly being slowed down a fair bit during PC gaming sessions by a purported bug in Windows 11, and in some cases, Ryzen 9000 processors are slightly worse off.This comes courtesy of Hardware Unboxed (via VideoCardz) on YouTube, which noticed in its review of the Ryzen 9700X that the results for…

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Forget Ryzen 9000, AMD’s next chip might be a Ryzen 5500X3D – and it might just be perfect for a budget gaming PC

AMD might be onto Ryzen 9000 processors at this point, but there’s a new CPU incoming from two generations back – if a new rumor is correct.Yes, AM4 (the previous CPU socket to the current AM5, which was introduced with last-gen Ryzen 7000) is still going, possibly, as leaker Harukaze5719 on X has uncovered an…

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Great news for gamers: AMD may be launching two new budget gaming GPUs

The rumor mill has been churning as always and this time, the word on the street is that AMD’s Radeon RDNA 3 lineup may be getting two new budget entry-level graphics cards — the RX 7400 and RX 7300. If true, it would be under the AMD Radeon RX 7600’s $259 price point, considered one…

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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPU delay is due to… typos on the chips? It seems unbelievable, but here we are

AMD’s delay of the launch of its Ryzen 9000 processors – with the CPUs already shipped being recalled from retailers and PC makers – could apparently be due to a simple typo, if you can believe the (multiple) reports floating around out there.Well, we say a simple typo, but this isn’t a mistake with the…

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Nvidia looks to be revamping RTX 3050 mobile GPU with current-gen tech – and that might mean better battery life for budget gaming laptops

Nvidia might be revamping a past-gen laptop GPU with a current-gen chip, or at least this is what some clues that have just been aired suggest.The theory is that there’s a new ‘RTX 3050 A’ mobile graphics card, with the ‘A’ suffix indicating this is a fresh flavor of the GPU which uses an AD106…

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Intel admits damage to unstable 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs is permanent – incoming patch is a preventative, not a cure

Intel provided a statement earlier this week on the instability problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, but some further details have come to light since then – including a clarification that any damage done to high-end CPUs is permanent.In case you missed it, Intel’s previous announcement pinned down ‘elevated operating voltage’ as a key cause…

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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 due to last-minute discovery of problems with some CPUs – launch won’t happen until August now

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs are going to be delayed and won’t arrive at the end of July as originally planned, with Team Red pushing back the launch of its next-gen processors to August due to issues with the chips.Tom’s Hardware reports that while AMD had already started shipping out Ryzen 9000 CPUs to retailers and…

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Intel’s fix for high-end CPU crashes is coming, but a new leak suggests Team Blue could still be in hot water

Intel’s problems with high-end 13th and 14th-gen CPUs crashing and suffering from instability in general may not be over with the patch Team Blue has inbound for mid-August, at least if some fresh leaked info is anything to go by.You probably won’t have missed the latest development from Intel whereby earlier this week, the company…

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Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?

David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt.  He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…

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Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole AI Processors: 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W

Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox workstations aimed at software developers. The whole of today’s release is aimed at developers rather…

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