Small form-factor Mini-ITX systems are pretty popular among gamers, but Nvidia’s Ampere architecture is not exactly friendly to compact systems, which is why GPU makers have been reluctant to produce the latest GeForce RTX 30-series boards in the Mini-ITX form-factor. Fortunately, there are exceptions, and MSI’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Aero ITX 8G OC LHR is one…
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When it comes to emulation, there are a few different approaches. You can use ROM images, reverse-engineered hardware, software abstraction layers… but one thing that’s rarely attempted is a gate-by-gate recreation of the silicon you’re trying to emulate. The GateBoy project, as brought into the light by Hackaday, does just that. (Image credit: Austin Appleby)…
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Today’s best Mushkin Redline Lumina DDR4-3600 C16 (2x16GB) deals Admittedly, Mushkin had been absent from the memory game for a bit. Make no mistake, though, the brand is one of the veteran memory vendors, and now it’s getting back into the game with a new series of DDR4 memory kits. The Redline Lumina lineup is…
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IBM’s Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has been one of the common non-x86 solutions for servers. With advancements made to the Power ISA, it is only a matter of time before the processor and server platform get updated. Today, the company updated its server offerings with the latest chips. To put things into perspective, IBM’s…
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With Windows 11 releasing on October 5, Lenovo has announced a pair of new Ideapad laptops that ship with the new operating system: the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon and Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Pro. Like several of the best ultrabooks, both laptops run on AMD’s Ryzen 5000-series processors and have options for discrete graphics…
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The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is already one of the best graphics cards on the market right now. There have always been rumors that Nvidia was preparing a 20GB variant of the Ampere-based graphics card. A new firmware and YouTube video (via momomo_us) seemingly confirm the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB’s existence. The GeForce RTx…
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The New York Times published another report exploring Bitcoin’s energy usage last week, and it went about how you’d expect based on previous criticism of the cryptocurrency’s environmental impact, with the added twist of saying that Bitcoin was actually designed to waste energy in a bid to protect its network from attack. Let’s start with…
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RISC-V has been one of the hottest topics in the world of computing, as the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) allows for extensive customization and is easy to understand, besides the whole open-source, license-free benefit. There’s even a project that designed a general-purpose GPU based on RISC-V ISA, and now we are witnessing a port of…
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The European Union, via a €20 million grant through its “EU Horizon 2020” initiative, is looking to deploy a 400 petaflops supercomputer on European soil between 2022 and 2023. The supercomputer is being developed under the EuroExa project umbrella, which aims to rebalance the world’s scales when it comes to the availability of supercomputing performance.…
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With cheating growing rampant in the first-person shooter e-sports space, the developers behind Valorant have figured out a new way to keep more cheaters at bay. Sourced from @AntiCheatPD on Twitter; e-sports shooter Valorant now requires all PCs running Windows 11 to feature a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Any machines running Windows 11 with TPMs…
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