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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Ethereum’s hashrate —a measure of the computational power devoted to the cryptocurrency—has reached an all-time high, despite the London hard fork that was expected to push miners away from the platform by greatly reducing their profits. CoinDesk today reported that both Etherscan and OKLink show Ethereum’s hashrate peaking over the weekend. The platforms disagree on…
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Hungarian publication PROHARDVER has uncovered XFX’s crafty strategy to put AMD Radeon Instinct accelerators into the hands of Chinese HPC customers. While the graphics cards can function as mining products, they actually serve a higher purpose. The whole show started with an obscure Navi 22 graphics card that recently emerged in China. For starters, it…
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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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