RTX 3080 gaming PC deals are rare, but when they happen, they don’t stick around for long! Dell has just dropped such a deal, so if you’ve been looking for a powerhouse of a setup, now’s a good time to buy. At Dell, the Alienware Aurora R12 with RTX 3080 and 11th Gen Intel Core…
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The California Energy Commission has put energy regulations into place in regards to gaming monitors (just like on gaming desktops) with the aim of making them more efficient. This may result in some companies being unable to ship certain gaming monitors to California due to high power consumption, similar to Dell being unable to ship…
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Ethereum mining has not been as profitable for the past couple of months, though volatility could still change things. The drop in ETH prices not only affected miners’ profitability, but also spot prices of graphics memory, such as GDDR5 and GDDR6. Cheaper SGRAM on the spot market could potentially affect contract prices of graphics memory, though…
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Maker Kevin Wu has created a fascinating solution to a problem we didn’t even know we had with this sleek, Raspberry Pi-powered weather clock. Not only does it show the time of day with analog hands but it also provides weather data for each given hour. The idea first came to Wu back in 2018…
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A controversial Bitcoin-mining power company called Greenidge Generation Holdings announced that it’s “actively exploring investing a portion of its mining profits in renewable energy projects in New York,” starting with the replacement of a 40-year-old, 143-acre coal ash landfill with a “significant new solar farm.” Greenidge said it’s owned the Lockwood Hills landfill since 2014.…
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According to a report from Phoronix, AMD and Valve are working together to design a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. Valve has recently launched its Steam Deck gaming console that houses AMD’s custom Ryzen APU with embedded RDNA 2 GPU and Zen 2 CPU powered by a…
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Microsoft has given us a sneak peek into the UI re-design for its Paint and Photo apps. These apps forgo the current Ribbon style UI, which was introduced with Windows 7, replacing it with the new fluent design language seen in Windows 11. Microsoft plans to replace all of the apps built into Windows with…
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The Raspberry Pi 4 is an excellent little computer, but even its biggest fan would have to admit that it’s not very good at streaming fullscreen videos from YouTube. There are some things you can do to improve its performance, but Fenix Pi Mk1 Plasma, a lighter Linux distribution based on the Raspberry Pi OS…
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Today’s best Cooler Master MasterAir MA624 Stealth deals Cooler Master is a name synonymous with mainstream cooling products, ranging from heatpipe air towers to performance liquid cooling AIOs, many of which feature RGB lighting as a focal point. However, the large, dual-fan MasterAir MA624 Stealth comes ready to impress while being completely devoid of lighting…
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Valve has today published its monthly update for Steam Hardware Survey, with an update for July. Besides the regular fluctuations in the market share of CPU and GPU vendors, there is another interesting change slowly happening. According to the newest data from the survey, gaming on Linux has climbed to 1.0% for the first time…
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