If you’ve been shopping for a car lately, you may have noticed things are a little weird in the automotive marketplace. Some new-car lots are half-empty. Used vehicles are more expensive than before. Even renting a car is challenging: you may either be out of luck or out of pocket more than you’d expect. As…
DetailsIf your computer isn’t booting up properly, or it shows the incorrect date and time every time you log in, chances are that your CMOS battery is depleted. Even though it sounds complicated, replacing your CMOS battery is a simple affair. But before that, it’s important to understand what exactly is the CMOS battery, and…
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Provantage (via Harukaze5719), a retailer in the U.S., has listed pricing for Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake K-series processors. Alder Lake will be the first hybrid x86 desktop chips on a mainstream platform, and given the competitive price listings, they certainly look like they’ll compete with AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips for a spot on our…
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Nothing says that a new console generation is here quite like the old console gen getting working emulators. And despite the PS5 still being hard to come by, the PS4’s emulation day has come. Spine, a closed source PS4 emulator for Linux that’s been privately in the works since 2019 just made its first full…
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AMD Big Navi, RX 6000, Navi 2x, RDNA 2. Whatever the name, AMD’s latest GPUs promise big performance and efficiency gains, along with feature parity with Nvidia in terms of ray tracing support. Team Red finally puts up some serious competition in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy and provides several of the best graphics cards, going…
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According to a report by Linux gaming site Boiling Steam, 72% of the current top 50 games on Steam can run on Linux, either using Proton or running natively. Some of the unsupported games should eventually work with Linux due to Valve’s efforts to enable a vast roster of games for its forthcoming Steam Deck…
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It seems the Grinch for gamers this holiday season may take the form of a chip shortage. Media reports based on earnings calls with key chipmakers and other sources are predicting the shortage will continue into next year and possibly stretch into 2023. Manufacturers are ramping up production to ensure shoppers get the game gear…
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Music is notably mathematical, so it should come as no surprise that many makers turn to creating their own Raspberry Pi-based solutions for musical problems. Today we’ve got a sharp, problem-solving creation to share from maker Guyrandy Jean-Gilles. Tired of twisting his pegs, Jean-Gilles opted to develop his own Raspberry Pi Pico-powered automatic guitar tuner.…
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A new Alder Lake benchmark has been posted with a for sale listing, potentially showing Alder Lake running in its new Gear 4 mode. According to @harukaze5719, this latest leak comprised a Core i5-12600K 10-core CPU running the AIDA64 cache & memory test, with a kit of DDR5 memory operating at DDR5-6400. Memory bandwidth was…
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AMD has released new Radeon Software Adrenalin and Ryzen chipset drivers to pave the way for Windows 11. Besides Windows 11 support, the latest drivers also bring new features for Radeon gamers, including an auto-overclocking function for AMD-powered systems. With the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.9.1 driver, consumers who own a system with a Ryzen 5000…
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