Hardware

Intel releases NPU drivers with Arrow Lake support — AI PC users will have yet another component that may require regular updates
Intel NPUs join the list of driver updates to stay on top of, with nearly a dozen updates since Meteor Lake laptops began shipping last year. The latest release adds support for the upcoming Arrow Lake processors' NPU, along with addressing some potent...
2024-10-15 20:41
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Best Gaming PCs of 2024
We test the best gaming PCs with our typical gauntlet of real-world and synthetic benchmarks to measure overall prebuilt system performance.
2024-10-15 20:21
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Western Digital launches 32TB hard drive in SATA and SAS flavors — Ultrastar DC HC690 delivers sequential performance up to 257 MiB/s
Western Digital’s newly launched ePMR-powered UltraSMR HDDs can store up to 32TB, a new record for shingled magnetic recording-based drives.
2024-10-15 18:06
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Tiny11 now supports Windows 11 24H2 in a compact size that will fit on a standard single-layer DVD
Tiny11 has been used to shrink a Windows 11 24H2 install to just 3.5GB, making it small enough to run off of a standard DVD.
2024-10-15 17:55
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Projections show that Arm CPUs will power 40% of notebooks sold in 2029
A semiconductor-focused market intelligence firm has charted the rise of the Arm architecture in the notebook market up to 2030. In a new research bulletin, TechInsights predicts that 40% of notebooks sold by the end of the decade will be based on SoCs...
2024-10-15 17:44
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For a limited time, Crucial's T700 4TB SSD is back down to one of its lowest prices
Peak Gen 5 performance with 4TB of capacity, Crucial's T700 SSD is on a limited-time sale.
2024-10-15 17:42
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Intel's Arrow Lake official memory speeds are unchanged with standard memory sticks — pricier CUDIMM memory needed for faster base spec
Intel Arrow Lake chips require CUDIMM sticks if you want to enjoy DDR5-6400 speeds without XMP.
2024-10-15 17:29
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Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two fierce rivals, Intel and AMD jointly announced the formation of a new x86 advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) moving forward, an important consideration gi...
2024-10-15 17:03
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Western Digital NVMe SSD users beware: Windows 11 24H2 is causing BSODs unless you tweak your registry
A major Windows 11 24H2 issue is crashing Western Digital SSDs.
2024-10-15 16:37
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SSD prices could drop up to 10% ahead of the New Year – TrendForce predicts an increase in production and weaker demand
According to a new report by TrendForce analysts, client SSD prices are predicted to fall between 5 and 10% in Q4 2024.
2024-10-15 16:37
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US govt reportedly mulls capping AI GPU exports from Nvidia and AMD to the Middle East
Officials are reportedly in the early stages of discussions about restricting the export of high-performance AI processors from companies like Nvidia and AMD to Middle Eastern nations.
2024-10-15 16:11
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Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined, yet continues to lag in market cap — Nvidia spends almost 2X more than AMD
Nvidia spent $3 billion on R&D, and AMD spent $1.5 billion, but this pales in comparison to the $30 billion that Apple spends on its future products annually.
2024-10-15 15:46
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Microsoft says the undeletable 8.63GB cache in Windows 11 24H2 is “a reporting error” — space is freed by Disk Cleanup
Microsoft says that the undeletable 8.63GB cache is actually freed up already; the reason it appears on the Disk Cleanup app is a "reporting error."
2024-10-15 15:46
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Dude, you're getting a PC! More shoppers than ever buying laptops and desktops as gifts, report predicts
The Consumer Technology Association conducted a survey of consumer intentions for holiday 2024. 78 percent of shoppers plan to gift computer hardware and 89 percent plan to gift tech of some kind.
2024-10-15 15:35
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Quad-core server CPU has been overclocked to 5.65 GHz on a PC motherboard — EPYC 4124P delivers up to 11% better performance than stock and matches the Ryzen 9 7950X in single-core performance
Testing shows that the EPYC 4124P, or the EPYC 4004 lineup, now seamlessly works on the AM5 platform, with support for both CPU and memory overclocking.
2024-10-15 15:30
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This Raspberry Pi Pico spider robot spookily wiggles as people approach
Kevin McAleer has built a spooky Pico-powered spider robot that wiggles its arms when detecting people using its ultrasonic sensor eyes.
2024-10-15 15:22
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Game dev shows how to do a PC port right, outlines 106 to 314 FPS improvement without frame generation
Modder-turned-developer Durante details the process of officially optimizing a game for PC.
2024-10-15 15:10
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Micron launches DDR5-6400 CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs for Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs — DDR5-6400 kits up to 32GB capacity with C52 timings
Micron expands the company's memory portfolio with new Crucial CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs that run at DDR5-6400.
2024-10-15 13:54
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Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
Google signed a deal with Kairos Power, a power generation startup working on small modular reactors, to purchase 500MW of electricity starting 2030.
2024-10-15 12:31
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