Minisforum is known for its ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF), highly integrated PCs primarily designed for offices or living rooms. Apparently, the company does not want to stop there. This week, it introduced a rather extraordinary product for itself. Not only is the Minisforum GameMini an attempt at cracking our best gaming PCs list, but it’s also an…
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(Image credit: Intel) Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V nearly eight years ago. The game was impressive at the time, but it’s starting to show its age now, especially in the graphics department. Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) took it upon itself to improve those graphics with a new method of making synthetic images—like…
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(Image credit: Nathan Mangar) Tinkering on the Raspberry Pi Pico is always fun but it can be tricky to make sure you’re using the right pin. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was definitely on the right track when deciding to print the GPIO labels on the Pico board but, unfortunately, their choice to place the labels…
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(Image credit: Pigeonaut) If Tim Cook was more into retro computers, then the newly redesigned iMac might have looked like this. It doesn’t of course, but that doesn’t matter – we’ve got Pigenoaut’s Callisto II, as spotted by Hackaday. Within that lovely late 1970s / early 1980s 3D printed shell sits a Raspberry Pi 4…
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AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT has once again broken the world record for the highest frequency possibly on a GPU. Overclocking group OGS managed to squeeze a whopping 3.3 GHz out of the 6900XT, one of the best graphics cards with liquid nitrogen, breaking the current 3.2 GHz GPU clock speed record held by OCer Der8auer…
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Framework, which announced its modular, repairable laptop back in February, now has full specs, pricing and is opening pre-orders for the machine. It will come in three configurations, starting at $999. That base model has an Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a 256GB NVMe, Wi-Fi 6 and will run Windows 10 Home.…
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Corsair’s updated Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT is clearly angling for a spot on our Best Gaming Headsets list out of the gate. It’s got nearly everything we liked about the previous model, the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE, like a wide frequency range and a tasteful bit of RGB behind aluminum earpieces that look far…
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AMD has begun to enable support of its smallest GPU in the RDNA2 family (aka Navi 20-series) in Linux, which revealed its internal codename, the Beige Goby, reports Phoronix. Not the most exciting of fish names, but let’s continue. The enablement means that the entry-level RDNA2 graphics processor is on track to be released in the…
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A senior U.S. senator on Tuesday filed a formal enquiry with three makers of hard drives — Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital — asking whether they complied with a regulation that requires them to obtain a license to sell HDDs to Huawei. Republican senator Roger Wicker this week decided to find out whether Seagate, Toshiba,…
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Gabe Newell, the head of Valve Software, hinted to students in New Zealand that the company might expand its Steam platform, or at least some games, to the console space later this year. The comment is vague at best, but at least it shows that the owner of one of the largest game distribution platforms…
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