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Gigabyte releases an RTX 4090 with a smart power connector placement

Gigabyte has quietly released a revised version of its RTX 4090 Windforce graphics card. What's interesting about this card isn't anything to do with higher clocks or dramatic cooler changes,…

Fox News June 14, 2023

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AMD bigs up 12GB for 1440p gaming but where are its new GPUs?

AMD's latest blog post on gaming graphics is doubling down on the importance of plenty of VRAM for modern gaming, pitching 12GB-plus as optimal for 1440p gaming. The only slight…

Fox News June 14, 2023

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Zephyr’s new RTX 3060 shows off its sensitive side as the first ever graphics card with a pink PCB

Now, I'd heard of graphics cards that smell like anime waifus, and I'm aware there have been some GPUs with incredible, sometimes rather horrifying designs (on the GPU packaging, at…

Fox News June 12, 2023

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Turning a new PC into a personal computer is one of our hobby’s great pleasures

Much to my bank account's dismay, nothing beats that new PC feeling. A clean SSD free from the detritus of years worth of installs, uninstalls, reinstalls, updates, panicked emergency restores,…

Fox News June 8, 2023

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Intel CPU with 16 big Performance cores hits 7.2GHz and draws 800W

Intel and AMD didn't have much to show us at Computex, but there were one or two interesting side shows. How about 16 Intel Performance cores humming along at 7.2GHz?Of…

Fox News June 7, 2023

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Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt

Having just dropped a new, totally net-zero flash drive, TeamGroup steps in as yet another tech company taking steps to reduce the use of new plastics, and tackle some of…

Fox News June 6, 2023

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Arizona is giving residents a free 10-day semiconductor technician course in anticipation of new Intel factories

Maricopa Community College has partnered with Intel to train semiconductor technicians in less than two weeks. Intel plans to construct two chip factories in Maricopa County within the coming years,…

Fox News June 5, 2023

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If you’ve got a modern Gigabyte motherboard there’s a BIOS setting you need to disable to avoid PC’s latest security calamity

Update, June 2, 2023: Gigabyte has released an official statement and has been in touch with us to say that it has uploaded beta BIOS options to the official Gigabyte…

Fox News June 1, 2023

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I’m so ready for flat-packed PC cases

Plenty of PC gamers have a pile of boxes filled with fans, HDDs, and old PC parts. I would know, many of you sent me pictures of your hoards. But…

Fox News May 31, 2023

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The RTX 4060 Ti highlights where the limitations lie with Nvidia’s Frame Generation technology

Nvidia's Frame Generation technology is magic. It delivers extra gaming performance with seemingly no downside. But I had no real understanding of its limits until I plugged in my RTX…

Fox News May 24, 2023