Want to build a PC on a budget but need some outstanding performance for the price? You can start with Intel’s Core i5-12600k for just $189 (opens in new tab). This 12th Gen chip offers six performance cores and four efficiency cores to help power your applications or games. Have a look at our review…
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A retro technology enthusiast has successfully grafted an ancient ISA slot to a modern motherboard. In a YouTube Short, TheRasteri introduces us to a neat but work-in-progress expansion board with an ISA slot. It is put to good use during the brief clip, providing SoundBlaster 16-powered gut-wrenching sound effects – and a pumping soundtrack –…
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Giga Computing, the enterprise arm of Gigabyte, recently announced a couple of servers based on AMD’s Zen 4 processors. But, more importantly, the manufacturer confirmed that the successor to the Ryzen 7000 lineup, which offers some of the best CPUs on the market, will arrive later this year. Like the AM4 socket, the AM5 socket…
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Corsair just teased the latest entry in its Xeneon family of gaming monitors, and it looks like it could be a hit with eSports gamers. The new Xeneon 27QHD240 features a 27-inch OLED panel with a 2560 x 1440 resolution and a 240 Hz refresh rate. In essence, this is the little brother of Corsair’s…
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Huawei said at an event that it had developed electronic design automation (EDA) software to design chips to be produced at 14nm-class process technologies, Reuters reports. While 14nm nodes are several generations behind 3nm production nodes currently used to make the most advanced chips, this is a major breakthrough for the Chinese EDA industry. Huawei is expected…
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Later this year, Apple is expected to announce the Apple Watch Series 9. After years of minor upgrades to its smartwatch lineup, here’s what we know about this hotly anticipated upcoming product. We’ll cover all the latest rumors pertaining to the Apple Watch Series 9 release date, price, specs, watchOS 10, and much more. What…
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Nvidia has quietly removed some of the concurrent video encoding limitations from its consumer graphics processing units, so they can now encode up to five streams. The move will simplify the life of video enthusiasts, but Nvidia’s data center grade and professional GPUs will continue to have a massive edge over consumer products as now…
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You thought that Intel’s LGA4677 socket for 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processors was massive? A detailed image of Intel’s next-generation LGA7259 socket emerges (courtesy of Marvin Sevilla aka @SprayOnCopper) and demonstrates that this future socket is far larger than the current design. In fact, LGA7259 can probably challenge AMD’s SP5 socket with 6,096 contacts. Measuring 61 × 82mm…
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As China is accelerating its semiconductor self-sufficiency efforts, the newly formed China Chiplet League this week introduced its homegrown Chiplet Interconnect Interface Standard, according to a DigiTimes report citing the Chinese website Cailianshe. The new interface is meant to enable custom multi-chiplet designs developed by China-based companies and made in the People’s Republic. China’s original Chiplet Interconnect…
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If you’ve been sharing screenshots that were cropped or edited with the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, your privacy may be at risk. It looks like Windows’ built-in screenshot editing tools are also part of “aCropalypse” — a recently-discovered security flaw in Google Pixel’s Markup image editing tool that allows for the partial recovery of…
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