No, you didn’t misread the headline. A user from the Asus ROG forums (via Reddit) has evidently found a way to enable AMD’s Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors on the ROG Crosshair VI — something that wasn’t supposed to happen. What is more shocking is that the firmware hails from the ASRock B450 Pro4 R2.0. AMD…
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Whether you own one of the best 3D printers or one that’s just ok, using Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi is a great way to monitor its progress and prevent problems. But why just go with a plain, vanilla Raspberry Pi when you can use one that looks and acts like the BMO robot from…
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Nvidia today via a blog post announced a veritable slew of upcoming games with support for the company’s proprietary DLSS technology and ray tracing, either at launch or via development updates. The green company’s monopoly on upscale technologies may be in the process of being challenged left and right, by AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (AMD…
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The PC market suffered from stagnation a few years ago, but we have witnessed amazing growth for the sector during the pandemic as resources were poured into the technology improvement, which made PC demand blossom. According to today’s report from International Data Corporation (IDC), PC demand will continue to grow throughout the year 2021. As…
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When it begins production in early 2024, TSMC’s fab in Arizona will be the foundry’s first advanced fab in years located outside of Taiwan. According to recent reports, while the fab will operate in the USA, it will be at least partially built in Taiwan in order to save some money on setting it up…
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Iran’s cryptocurrency miners are expected to be allowed to resume operations on September 22, the Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) told The Financial Tribune, as demand on the country’s power grid falls. The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade temporarily banned cryptocurrency mining earlier this year because it was concerned the energy-intensive…
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Ethereum miners are watching their Ether go up in smoke—just like the network intended. Bitcoin News reported that changes introduced by the London hard fork have resulted in more than $12,000 worth of ETH being destroyed every minute. The report cited a Dune Analytics dashboard called “Ethereum after 1559” that is tracking the amount of…
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Intel Graphics division had a very busy time last week when the company announced more details on its upcoming discrete graphics card line-up. However, today we are reporting about a blog post from Intel’s Vice President and General Manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions, Roger Chandler, that mentioned some overclocking functionality for the upcoming…
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is one of the best platforms for hobbyist engineers and makers. A little while ago, we have covered the smallest carrier board at the time, however, a new contender from @arturo182 has just appeared, and it carries the name “Stick“. According to the Twitter feed of Sweedish engineer @arturo182, who is the…
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In an important update from the battle to tame the Apple M1 chip into running Linux natively, as noticed by The Register, graphics developer Alyssa Rosenzweig, along with her Asahi Linux colleagues, has managed to get the Gnome Shell running on the bare metal, albeit without GPU acceleration. LLVMPipe, my shoddy display controller, and hours…
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