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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 09, 2025
Gigabyte is rolling out an ultra-burly desktop built around AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors, though curiously enough, it opted to stick with the previous generation Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 series lineup rather than the...
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Zak Killian - Thu, May 29, 2025
If you're reading this, chances are high that you got here via a Google search because someone told you to "update the BIOS" on your PC, and you're wondering what the heck that means. Don't worry; we're gonna get you sorted out. "BIOS"...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Apr 11, 2025
We want to take a moment to remind you to back up your iPhones or Android devices. Data preservation, easier device upgrades, protection against malicious actors, and preservation of cherished memories are some of the many benefits of backing up you phone, to make sure you can recover your...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jan 17, 2025
If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 06, 2025
On stage today at CES, AMD announced the first major updates to its graphics IP since late 2022. That's right folks: RDNA 4 is finally arriving, and true to speculation, it appears to be squarely targeting the center of the market. The...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Nov 25, 2024
Okay, alright, fair enoughit's not really Black Friday yet. That'll be this upcoming Friday the 29th, in its classical place after Thanksgiving on Thursday. Just about every parts vendor on the web is already offering "Black Friday"...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 17, 2024
One of the main appeals of GPU refreshes is the type of RAM configuration that will accompany next-generation products. To that end, Samsung is laying claiming to the "industry's highest capacity" GDDR7 with what it says are the first...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 24, 2024
There are a multitide of companies who have expended significant funds in an effort to get PC users excited about AI, but many people still think of AI products as something that is run exclusively in the cloud. Of course, that's...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 06, 2024
We don't know about the wider market, but we're ready to be rid of spinning rust. It's an incredible technology that served its purpose for decades, but even loading files from a hard drive feels tiresome when it's a large number of files...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, May 20, 2024
Are you looking to get some laundry done on the cheap or, even better yet, free? It turns out a security flaw in a popular internet-connected laundry machine vendor could allow anyone to avoid paying the fee for washing or drying clothes...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Apr 17, 2024
If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's been a major marketing point for CPUs for...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 27, 2024
Talk about a 'hold my beer' moment. Just yesterday, Micron was thumping its chest over having kicked its 24GB 8-stack High Bandwidth Memory 3E (HBM3E) solution with blistering bandwidth of more than 1.2 terabytes per second (TB/s) into...
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Ryan Whitwam - Tue, Feb 06, 2024
Today, playing a game is as simple as downloading a few (or many) gigabytes of data over the internet, but in the past, we had to get our game data from optical discs. If you've still got some of those lying around, you might be...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Kioxia is one of those names that you might not see a lot if you're primarily a DIY PC gamer. Whether you realize it or not, the original inventor of flash memory (when it was known as Toshiba Memory Solutions) moves a LOT of NAND. You can...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Without much fanfareor any at all, reallyNVIDIA has officially added a cut-down version of its budget GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card to its lineup. As has been extensively leaked and rumored over the past several weeks, the newest...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Jan 31, 2024
An Australian-based wireless technology company has possibly set a new Wi-Fi transmission record of 1.8 miles while maintaining sufficient throughput for a video call. What's impressive besides the range is that this demonstration was done...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Jan 15, 2024
Simply put, the Internet of Things is cool, but it's cooler still when configured correctly and built with security in mind. Unfortunately, that almost never happens. A much more likely story is something like what happened to Johnie on...
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Ryan Whitwam - Wed, Nov 15, 2023
WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication platforms in the world, and it reached that lofty position before it even had a backup solution. Beginning in 2015, the Facebook-owned app added support for Google Drive backup and restore...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Oct 09, 2023
We've all been there, right? You want to add another SSD to your system, but all your M.2 sockets are full. You could get a SATA SSD, but that's not going to satisfy your need for speed. No, you definitely need more NVMe storage, and that...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jul 31, 2023
As much as we love gushing about the latest hardware around here, the fact remains that most people don't care that much. As proof of this sad statement, check out the sales of the Nintendo Switch. That system's specifications were pretty...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 15, 2023
Baldur's Gate is a name that will make a bunch of old CRPG nerds get all wistful and misty-eyed. That game came out in 1998 on five CD-ROMswith a sixth for the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion. It's based on the AD&D 2nd Edition rules, a...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 12, 2023
Windows 11's minimum system requirements, according to Microsoft, include a UEFI system with a supported processor, 64GB of available disk space, a compatible DirectX 12-capable graphics processor, and at least 4GB of memory. Four...
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