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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 08, 2022
An adventurous overclocker has apparently taken a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K processor and dipped it in liquid nitrogen, en route to achieving a staggering 8GHz clock speed across all eight Performance cores (P-cores). While obviously...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 07, 2022
Power limits are going up and microprocessors are getting hotter. This is happening across the industry, and it's generally accepted to be the consequence of pushing performance ever higher despite gains from new fabrication processes...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Sep 07, 2022
If you are looking forward to testing out Intel's upcoming Arc GPUs, then you may get some cool software with your purchase. The tech giant is looking to promote the release of its Alchemist lineup by providing buyers with a few games and...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Sep 05, 2022
Reading that headline, you're probably already thinking: "5.2 GHz? Isn't that a lower speed than previous leaks?" Yes, it absolutely is, but there's a reason for it: the leaker is comparing the CPU directly against Intel's...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Aug 26, 2022
President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for Intel's Ohio semiconductor facilities on September 9, 2022. The White House made the announcement Thursday as Intel plans on getting started on its two fabs that...
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Chris Goetting - Fri, Aug 19, 2022
If you own an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard, listen up. About 10,000 units were shipped with a defect that can create a short circuit. This results in overheating that can cause the boards to melt, burn, or even catch...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Aug 09, 2022
If you're reading this, you're probably a PC hardware enthusiast, and if you're a PC hardware enthusiast, there's a strong possibility you've built a Ryzen system recently. AMD's Ryzen processors have become very popular, particularly in...
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Chris Goetting - Mon, Aug 08, 2022
Today, Intel formally unveiled the Arc Pro A-Series of graphics cards. The announcement covered the first three offerings that Intel intends to bring to market. These consist of two small form factor desktop GPUs the A40 and A50 as well...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 30, 2022
Recent rumors have implied that top brass at Intel were considering the cancellation of Arc's entire product line. While Intel has been known to do such a thingthat was the eventual fate ofLarrabeeit seems unlikely to us given that the AXG...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 26, 2022
If you have a need for speed in the data center, Kioxia hopes to satiate your hunger for blazing fast storage with its new CM7 series, which is now shipping to customers. Designed around the PCI Express 5.0 bus and offered in Enterprise...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 19, 2022
Motherboard makers right now are collectively like, 'YOU get a BIOS update, YOU get a BIOS update, YOU get BIOS update', and, well, you get the idea. The reason for the influx of firmware upgrades is to get today's existing platforms ready...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 12, 2022
MSI is the latest motherboard maker to start rolling out BIOS updates to support Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake CPUs on existing 600-series hardware. All told, there are now over 100 motherboard models from at least three manufacturers that...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 11, 2022
We highly doubt that Intel will slap a picture of a carnivorous Velociraptor on its 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, but if newly listed single-core and especially multi-core scores on Geekbench turn out to be accurate, the chip maker might want...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jun 23, 2022
Looked at the prices of DDR5 memory lately? The newer, faster, all-ECC system RAM is coming down in cost slowly, but it's nowhere near as cheap as ubiquitous DDR4 SDRAM. Plus, due to the latency advantages of hot-clocked DDR4 versus the...
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Zak Killian - Wed, May 25, 2022
In case you haven't heard, extreme overclockers have found frustration with Intel's latest LGA socket and it's ILM (Integrated Loading Mechanism) because it bends the CPUs ever-so-slightly, creating an air gap in the middle and preventing...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 13, 2022
Micron is developing 232-layer NAND flash memory and expects to ramp up production by the end of the calendar year. Announced this week at its Micron Investor Day 2022 event, Micron is pitching its 232-layer technology as the "world's most...
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Zak Killian - Mon, May 09, 2022
Rumors of the desktop PC market's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Indeed, while laptops still outsell desktops, the majority of laptops sold don't have discrete graphics. Meanwhile, AMD's setting sales records with its Ryzen...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Apr 26, 2022
As far as we know Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs are coming in the form of either two or three chips: one with 512 Execution Units (EUs), a much smaller one with 128 EUs, and possibly a mid-size model with 256 EUs. Armed with that knowledge...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 11, 2022
Even as mainstream consumer processors push out more cores, more threads, and heaps of cache, there is still a market for even more powerful high end desktop (HEDT) silicon. Maybe not a massive market, but enough so that AMD recently...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 01, 2022
Intel designs and manufacturers a whole host of semiconductors, including x86 and FPGA silicon, discrete GPUs, Wi-Fi products, and so forth. But did you know Intel is also a game developer and publisher? Technically it is, and it's latest...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Mar 08, 2022
Once upon a time, it was thought desktop Arc Alchemist cards would be out in January, but January came and went without a peep. Folks latched onto rumors that they'd be here in March, but then Intel instead promised cards for Q2 this year...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 03, 2022
Ever since the advent of the Multi-Media eXtensions, better known as "MMX," Intel has had a long history of tacking on instruction set extensions to add additional capabilities to its x86-family of CPUs. There have been many other...
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