A couple of Nvidia graphics cards have reportedly been affected by a flaw in their cooling systems – but these seem to be very rare occurrences.The issue is with the vapor chamber, as flagged up by a Quasarzone forum member, which has an apparent problem with oxidization of the heatsink and holes appearing in the vapor chamber.The…
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Intel’s Core i9-14900KF has just been released, and the flagship Raptor Lake Refresh processor has broken the previous world record for overclocking.The Core i9-14900KF – which is the same as the plain 14900K, it just doesn’t have integrated graphics – was ramped up to 9044MHz (or 9.04GHz) by a team of overclockers from Asus (including…
Nvidia is planning to seriously up the pace at which it releases graphics cards for AI and heavyweight usage, and that could have ramifications for the firm’s GeForce gaming GPUs.We hear from SemiAnalysis (via Tom’s Hardware) that Nvidia has big plans to dominate the AI landscape and fend off rivals by increasing the speed at…
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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 quickly became the source of controversy not long after its launch thanks to instances of melting cables – a problem that you might think is well in the past, but it turns out that isn’t the case.In what will doubtless be a concern for anyone with an RTX 4090 bought in the…
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Intel surprised everyone this week when it released its Arc A580 graphics card, a GPU that was first announced last year but which had otherwise been missing in action ever since.The Intel Arc A580 (which had been rumored in recent weeks thanks to leaked benchmarks) sits in the middle of Intel’s Arc graphics card stack…
Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have been somewhat under the radar thus far, so it’s interesting to see a leak pop up around the future CPUs.As a quick refresher – the various lakes Intel employs are confusingly numerous – the next-gen chips from Intel are Meteor Lake (laptop chips, due in December) and Raptor Lake Refresh…
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Intel is working on its own version of stable cache that AMD pioneered with its 3D V-Cache technology, though it is still at least a couple of generations away.Following Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s Intel Innovation 2023 keynote, Gelsinger held a Q+A session with members of the press where he was asked if Intel would adopt…
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When Asus teased its ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card back at Computex, it was clear that the company’s ambitions were to develop no less than the world’s fastest graphics card. The company meticulously described the card’s advanced printed circuit board design, voltage regulating module, and cooling system, but it never revealed two important…
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Intel has been busy showing off its new Meteor Lake processors – which are due to land in December – during its Innovation keynote, but we also heard about the following generations of CPUs.And the good news from Team Blue is that the roadmap for those next generations of silicon is still on track, with…
Nvidia may be joining AMD and Intel in developing a multi-chiplet architecture for its next generation of GPUs, and could reap major gains in terms of performance.Nvidia is the last of the big three chipmakers that still uses a single slice of silicon for the processors inside its best graphics cards, so it’s something of…
