Matthew Connatser
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Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360 - Starting MSRP $1,899, Currently On Sale For $1,499 The 16-inch Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360 is powered by Intel's latest Meteor Lake platform, features a giant trackpad, a beautiful AMOLED display, a 360 degree display hinge and fantastic battery life. Good CPU performance for the form...
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PNY CS3150 XLR8 1TB: Price As Tested $185 PNY's CS3150 1TB SSD has one of the best coolers we've seen on a PCIe 5.0 SSD, though it trails in regard to write performance versus 2TB drives. Good Reading Performance 1TB and 2TB Models Available Cooler Is Low-Profile And Uses USB Header Connector Three Different Themes To...
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MSI Aegis RS 14th: Price As Tested $2,100 MSI Aegis RS 14th Gen desktops gaming PCs are priced competitively and are built around MSI's enthusiast-class components that are designed to work together seamlessly. Priced Fairly Uses MSI's Standard Components Solid Performance, Well-Balanced Build Balanced Fans Speed /...
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Samsung officially announced its 990 EVO PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 SSDs today, after it was leaked earlier this month when it was accidentally listed on Samsung's own website. The 990 EVO is technically Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, though it is not a top-end drives capable of double digit GB/s. Instead, the 990 EVO is...
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While it's possible to overclock PC components like CPUs, GPUs, and even monitors now, one thing you've likely never seen overclocked is an SSD. However, tech enthusiast Gabriel Ferraz has recently detailed how he was able to overclock a decade-old SATA III SSD with real performance enhancements. Although this...
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Documents leaked by renowned leaker @yuuki_ans on X reveal that early Arrow Lake samples have Hyper Threading disabled by default, which to some has implied that Intel may be looking to launch its first consumer CPUs without support for Hyper Threading since 2006. However, we've read the fine print, and it seems like...
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A recent update to Intel's Software Development Emulator may have inadvertently revealed that the company's upcoming Granite Rapids server CPU comes with 480MB of L3 cache, as spotted by @InstLatX64 on X. 480MB of L3 cache would be by far the most any Intel CPU has ever had, even beating out the 320MB that Emerald...
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Billy Mitchell's lawsuit against Twin Galaxies for removing his Donkey Kong scores has been settled out of court, and Twin Galaxies has put Mitchell's scores back in the books... sort of. In a statement, Twin Galaxies acknowledged the explanation given by Mitchell's expert witness, Dr. Michael Zyda, and said that it...
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Memtest86+, an open source application for testing RAM stability and finding potential errors, has hit version 7 after its revival in 2022. The V7 release of Memtest86+ includes bug fixes, optimizations, and two new features. PCs using Intel CPUs from 1st to 14th Gen or AMD Ryzen CPUs can now display live RAM settings...
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AMD has shared the first official benchmarks comparing the company's Hawk Point APUs to Intel's Meteor Lake chips, and apparently Hawk Point is the big winner by a wide margin. AMD tested its flagship Ryzen 7 8840U to Intel's Core Ultra 7 155H, and claims victories in basically every single metric. With all kinds of...
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Maingear is joining the push for desktops with cables hidden behind the motherboard, but the company isn't content with simply formulating its own designs. Instead, Maingear is aiming for standardizing rear cable connections for the desktop market, and it's joining forces with MSI and Phanteks to make this a reality...
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Benchmarks for the upcoming Ryzen 7 8700G have appeared in the Geekbench 6 GPU database, giving us the first glimpse at what AMD's Radeon 780M integrated GPU can do with the higher power levels available to desktop form factors. Tested in both the OpenCL and Vulkan modes of the Geekbench 6 GPU benchmark, the Radeon...
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Intel is hosting its IFS Direct Connect event on February 21, and the company is seemingly still on track to hit its goal of five nodes in four years (also known as 5N4Y), and is also ready to share its post-18A roadmap. The event features CEO Pat Gelsinger and General Manager Ann Kelleher, who is the speaker...
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DDR5-compatible desktop motherboards are about to support higher capacities thanks to new memory technologies, and ASRock and MSI are already showcasing their boards running with 256GB of RAM. The increased memory capacity is made possible thanks to Kingston's new Fury Renegade RAM sticks, each of which come with 64GB...
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AMD has responded to recent concerns surrounding overclocking on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs, specifically how AMD's built in a piece of hardware to detect if overclocking has ever been enabled, and how that could impact warranty coverage. AMD reached out to Tom's Hardware to clear the air and assured users that...
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Intel's upcoming RibbonFET technology is set to debut in the company's 20A node next year, but already the chip maker is showcasing the next step: 3D stacked CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) transistors. Though Intel had filed a patent for such a technology nearly two years ago, it was only in May at ITF...
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Phison is set to reveal further details of its upcoming PS5031-E31T SSD controller for PCIe 5.0 Solid State Drives. However, unlike Phison's E26 controller that's used for today's SSDs, the E31T is designed to use much less power and be more efficient. That could enable the creation of PCIe 5.0 SSDs that don't require...
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Lenovo's GeekPro desktops usually offer entry-level parts, but the latest member of the lineup offers a never-before-seen GPU: the Radeon RX 6600 LE. This isn't one of the GRE, China-exclusive variants AMD has announced recently either; the RX 6600 LE has come out of nowhere. However, this seemingly brand-new graphics...
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AMD has released its 23.12.1 update for AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, focusing on adding new features such as HYPR-RX Eco, an update to the game profile UI that allows HYPR-RX to be enabled on a game-by-game basis, and GPU hardware scheduling. Additionally, performance in a few AI applications has been improved...
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Acer's brand-new Nitro V 16 will be one of the first gaming laptops to offer AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8040 Hawk Point APUs. The Nitro V 16 can soon be had with up to a Ryzen 7 8845HS, which features eight Zen 4 cores, 12 RDNA 3 Compute Units, and the new Hawk Point NPU, which is the main selling point over the Ryzen 7040...
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GALAX has launched the thinnest RTX 40 card thus far with its RTX 4060 Ti Unparalleled Max, a single-slot graphics card that's just 20mm thick. The single-slot form factor is usually reserved for professional or workstation cards, and GALAX's new model is (as far as we know) the first single-slot RTX 40 card. Even...
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NVIDIA is aiming to lower the price of its GeForce RTX 3060 in China to 1,999 Yuan, roughly the equivalent of $280 in American USD, and these GPUs are set to last at least through the first quarter of 2024. That price would undercut even the cheapest GeForce RTX 3060 12GB by $10 in the US, if this price cut carries...
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