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Zak Killian - Sat, Mar 08, 2025
Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don't really scale past four to six coresfanboys have accused AMD of "stagnating" much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max out...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Jun 21, 2024
A few years ago, PC firmware switched from the aging BIOS system to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface standard, more commonly known as UEFI. This system is more secure than the legacy BIOS was, but it's not perfect. Cybersecurity...
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Mark Tyson - Mon, Apr 24, 2023
A computer programmer and PC enthusiast with a penchant for fanless builds has caused a stir with some home-made cooling modifications. The redditor found that their Streacom DB4 Fanless ITX Case wasnt quite up to cooling and calming a...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Dec 08, 2022
Intel's Raptor Lake on the desktop is a great success, but what's next for the boys in blue? According to the latest leaks, it looks like a Raptor Lake refresh is in the cards for mid-2023. That's just one part of a pretty...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 03, 2022
I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to stick one into. Pioneer, like the honey...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Dec 22, 2021
It won't be long before we'll be a whole lot more interested in Intel graphics drivers. After all, Intel's ability to design and fabricate big GPU chips isn't really in question (although it's leaving the actual manufacturing to TSMC, for...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Sep 04, 2021
The Surface Go 2 took all the good looks of Microsoft's more expensive tablet + keyboard combinations and brought the price point down to a very affordable level. That machine has been hanging around since its release in the middle of last...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jul 26, 2021
The Intel Accelerated' webcast kicked off today, hosted by newly-minted CEO Pat Gelsinger and Dr. Ann Kelleher, SVP and general manager of Technology Development. The dynamic duo disclosed a number of new and interesting details regarding...
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Ben Funk - Fri, Jun 25, 2021
Windows 11 upgrades may be free, but the hardware is certainly going to cost you. That's the message sent by Microsoft yesterday as the company published system requirements for the upcoming operating system, due during the Holiday season...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Aug 06, 2020
Intel has been going through a bit of rough patch over the past few weeks, following the disclosure that its7nm products have been delayed, which led to an internal reorganization that resulted in the company'schief engineering officer...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jun 08, 2020
If you're currently running a PC with aKaby Lake-Gprocessor onboard, we've got some bad news for you. It appears that both Intel and AMD have missed the mark when it comes to graphics driver support. If you recall...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Mar 08, 2020
Well, what do we have here? In the presumably waning days before Intel outs its Comet Lake-S lineup for the desktop, some pictures and specifications have emerged of what looks to be finalized silicon for the Core i5-10400. We are...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 28, 2020
Researchers have dubbed a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel CPUs as CacheOut (how bout dah?), noting it can "violate nearly every hardware-based security domain, leaking data from the OS kernel, co-resident virtual machines...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jan 09, 2020
To close out Intels CES 2020 press conference, Gregory Bryant, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intels Client Computing Group showed off an upcoming Tiger Lake-based mobile platform with discrete DG1 GPU running a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 09, 2019
Intel is discontinuing its Kaby Lake-G processors with AMD's Radeon RX Vega graphics infused into the package, marking the end of what had been an unlikely partnership. Vendors can still order Kaby Lake-G parts...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Oct 03, 2019
Yesterday, Microsoft unloaded a bevy of updates to its Surface family including the refreshed Surface Pro 7, the Surface Laptop 3 (with a new 15-inch variant), and the all-new Surface Pro X. The company also gave us a glimpse at two...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Oct 02, 2019
When Microsoft first announced the Surface family, it was available in both x86 and ARM versions. However, it didn't take long for Microsoft to release that the limited app ecosystem and performance of the ARM version wasn't attracting...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Oct 02, 2019
Microsoft held its yearly Surface event today in New York City, and the company is living up to the hype that has been building leaving up to the big unveil. There have been plenty ofrumors swirling around the devices, and those reports...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Sep 23, 2019
Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 has been around for roughly a year, which means that a replacement device is right around the corner. The next-generation device is likely to be announced next week atMicrosoft's October Surface hardware event...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Aug 07, 2019
Today might have been the moment in the spotlight for Samsung's newGalaxy Note 10 familyof flagship smartphones, but the South Korean electronics giant had another trick up its sleeve as well. The company officially announced the Galaxy...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 10, 2019
We are in the era of chiplet designs, and given the growing complexity of today's silicon solutions, that is unlikely to change anytime soon. Along those lines, one thing Intel says often gets overlooked is the chip packaging on modern...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jun 26, 2019
Qualcomm first gave us a taste of its new PC-centricSnapdragon 8cxSoC back in late December, andtouted its performance chopswith benchmarks against an Intel Core i5 (Kaby Lake-R) processor late last month. Were now getting...
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