According to DigiTimes, Intel has pivoted on its server strategy, in order to fight a supply-constrained AMD. It’s reportedly flooding the market with chips at discount pricing, rather than sticking to MSRP. While some reports point toward a relative normalization on AMD’s CPU supply, AMD has two distinct disadvantages when compared to Intel: It has…
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AMD’s latest Cezanne processors give you a great price-to-performance ratio for low cost builds without discrete graphics. They were only just released, but you can already save on the list price! At Newegg, the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is now $20 off — taking the price down to $349. AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: was $369.99,…
DetailsDisplay mainstay Philips’ new 279M1RV monitor doesn’t seem all that interesting at first, especially for PC gamers. It carries a “Designed for Xbox” logo and a modest primary feature set. But it’s also equipped an ambient lighting feature called Ambiglow, similar to the Ambilight feature on some of the company’s televisions. The Philips 279M1RV boasts…
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El Salvador’s efforts to appeal to cryptocurrency enthusiasts continued Friday, with a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP) revealing that the country has decided to exempt foreign investors from taxes on profits earned via Bitcoin speculation. Bitcoin speculation effectively treats the cryptocurrency like an asset that investors want to buy when it’s under-valued and sell when…
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Reddit users @kamaloo92 and @obamaprism3 have recently posted about their Ampere-based graphics cards overheating. After cracking open both the RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti (some of the best GPUs on the market), it was clear that misplaced thermal pads, and even thermal pads completely missing from parts of the GPU, were the primary problem.…
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Samsung and AMD have signed a partnership agreement where Samsung will implement AMD’s Radeon RDNA 2 GPU IP inside the company’s Exynos SoCs, which are scheduled to appear sometime next year. Now a new Geekbench v5 submission gives us a taste of performance with the Exynos 2200. The CPU cores are based on Arm’s v8…
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The Astro Pi project, which saw a pair of Raspberry Pi computers shot into space to live aboard the ISS running experiments written by schoolchildren, is getting an upgrade to the latest Raspberry Pi 4 board. Known as Izzy and Ed, the original computers saw almost 15,000 under 19s from all over Europe carry out…
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The MSI Pulse GL66 is one of MSI’s entry-level laptops, packing configurations that come in below what you’ll find in the flagship Raider Line but offering a bulky, upgradeable and more gamer-focused design than the likes of its super-slim Stealth 15M. Designed to compete with the best gaming laptops that most people can afford, the…
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ZeroPoint Technologies AB, a Swedish startup company appearing as a spinout of the Chalmers University of Technology, has today announced its latest work. Ziptilion, a memory technology that has been awarded a patent, €2.5 million (just under $3 million) in seed funding, and promises to double your RAM capacity and bandwidth, all while achieving higher…
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For a very long time, the most common path to improving your PC’s performance has been through upgrading the RAM. RAM stands for “random access memory” and it’s effectively the component of your PC that is keeping track of what your computer is currently working on. When RAM is limited, your PC has to keep…
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