In a recent Gigabyte hacking event that happened a bit over a week ago, attackers stole 112GB of data from the Gigabyte server. This included confidential files of the upcoming products and information shared under NDAs and contracts. Today, according to a new report, information regarding AMD’s EPYC processors (codenamed Genoa) has emerged after the…
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Earlier this year Noctua said that it would supply owners of its existing coolers mounting kits for Intel’s upcoming codenamed Alder Lake processors in LGA1700 packaging free of charge. This week the company reaffirmed its commitment and said that its mounting kits would be available in mid-October. Indirectly, Noctua may have revealed the availability timeframe of Intel’s…
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PNY has announced that its next-generation XLR8 Gaming DDR5-4800 memory kit will be ready for Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake processors. While we’ve already seen Alder Lake chips with DDR5-4800 benchmarks, this is the first time that a company has confirmed that Alder Lake will arrive with DDR5 support. The manufacturer stated in its press…
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Not long ago, we took a look at EVGA’s Z590 FTW and with it, found EVGA stepping up in all the right places offering users robust power delivery, improved looks and more. But that was the company’s $429 offering. Today we’re going to dive deep with the company’s flagship, the Z590 Dark, which takes things…
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AMD open-source driver efforts are sometimes used as an indicator of what is to come. The news which comes via Photonix sees the latest Linux kernel patch add preliminary support for DisplayPort 2.0 protocol in AMD GPU drivers. The DisplayPort 2.0 specification was announced quite some time ago. In 2019, the DisplayPort workgroup released the…
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As we are in the middle of the drama with Gigabyte finally responding to the complaints about the company’s power supplies exploding and our power supply expert commenting on the whole situation, it seems like there is another problem with Gigabyte’s approach to customers. According to the Reddit user Tinefol, Gigabyte has refused to take…
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Logitech’s G502 Lightspeed mouse typically tends to get most of the attention when talking about Logitech’s best gaming mice, but it’s not the only lightspeed gaming mouse under the Logitech umbrella. If you’re willing to supply your mouse with the occasional AA battery, there’s also the Logitech G604, which has the same wireless tech as…
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Gigabyte recently issued a recall for some of its power supplies. In response to Gigabyte’s statement about the company’s explosive power supplies, Dr. Aris Mpitziopoulos has shared his insights on why the GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM are dying prematurely. Mpitziopoulos is a respected veteran in the industry and the power supply reviewer at Tom’s Hardware. Mpitziopoulos…
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If you thought building homemade computer chips was impossible, you would be wrong. Sam Zeloof has just made his second homemade silicon integrated circuit featuring 1200 transistors, by using the same techniques as Intel did with its first CPUs in the 1970s. Zeloof’s story is quite impressive: Fe started building his first chip in 2018…
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Maker QT31416 has created a custom 3D-printed cryptocurrency hardware wallet powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero WH. It functions much like a Trezor hardware wallet, but costs less (and is arguably more fun) with a Raspberry Pi. The biggest question we had when considering this project was security. Official Trezor wallets do not rely on…
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