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Intel issues new guidelines to motherboard partners for crashing i9s

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Intel has issued new guidelines for its motherboard partners regarding the continued problems around crashing Intel Core i9 13th and 14th Gen processors. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the new guidelines issued by Intel have been enforced to combat the stability issues of its high-end chipsets. Crucially, the chipset manufacturer has doubled-down that it’s not blaming…

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Some AMD Zen 2 CPUs finally get defenses against Zenbleed security flaw – and it’s about time

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Some AMD Zen 2 chips have still not had an important security patch, but this appears to be finally happening, at least for those with MSI motherboards, who are now receiving a firmware update to patch against Zenbleed attacks.This is a BIOS update which comes with AMD’s AM4 AGESA 1.2.0.Ca that packs mitigations against Zenbleed.…

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Intel says Lunar Lake laptops will be AI powerhouses that could outgun the Snapdragon X Elite CPU

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Intel’s next-gen chips for laptops, known as Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200), won’t just major in power-efficiency, but will also provide a powerful performance for AI workloads in the best ultrabooks.We could have guessed this was the case – as Intel was always going to advance considerably on the AI processing that current-gen Meteor Lake…

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Lexar SL500 Portable SSD Review: Silicon Motion SM2320 and YMTC NAND in a Potent Package

7 minutes of reading / Hardware, Intel, Tech, Toshiba, Western Digital / By

Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired in 2017 by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products. Recently, the company announced…

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Faulty RTX 4090 connectors are still burning out – and one ‘smart’ solution has created even more problems

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Remember the RTX 4090 cable-melting fiasco? Way back in November 2022, following the launch of Nvidia’s mighty new flagship RTX 4090 graphics card, there were scattered reports of the GPU’s power connector overheating and melting, effectively rendering the $1,599 (£1,519/AU$2,959) component unusable. Now, almost a year and a half later, it looks like the problem…

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AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 CPUs could launch seriously soon going by a new rumor

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AMD’s Zen 5 desktop processors could be nearing release as another motherboard vendor has brought in initial support for what’s most likely to be Ryzen 9000 CPUs.As highlighted by well-known leaker HXL on X (formerly Twitter), MSI has released new firmware for its AM5 chipset motherboards featuring AGESA 1.1.7.0. As the description lets us know,…

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Fans are recreating tech history by building their own vintage 3dfx Voodoo graphics card

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At one point in history, a 3dfx-powered graphics card was nearly synonymous with consumer-accessible 3D acceleration thanks to tons of old Voodoo cards back in the 90s outfitted with 3dfx hardware. And now, two enthusiasts are building their own custom version of a classic Voodoo graphics card.Twitter / X users Oscar Barea and Ash Evans…

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Been tearing out your hair due to PC games crashing with your Intel CPU? Asus has a fix for that

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Intel, Tech / By

Intel CPU owners affected by a recently highlighted problem whereby some PC games are crashing, take note that Asus has offered up a solution for this issue – and hopefully other motherboard makers will follow suit.To recap, this is a bug that affects Intel’s higher-end (Core i9) 14th-gen and 13th-gen processors, and causes some games…

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The best SSD in the world? Phony Samsung drive has jaw-dropping specs at a bargain price, and yes – it’s a fake

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A fake piece of tech has popped up showing that it pays to be very careful about product names – and also that if an SSD looks very much too good to be true, it almost certainly is.This is the case of a product on AliExpress called a ‘1080 Pro SSD’ which you might, at…

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Hard drives could be about to get more expensive – and we have AI to blame

4 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, HP, Tech, Western Digital / By

Here’s some bad news for those looking at buying a new hard drive – prices are about to rise, by the looks of things.And that holds true even for consumer hard drives, even though this news – which comes via a report from analyst firm TrendForce – relates to large capacity hard drives in the…

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