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Wish your Ryzen CPU was faster? Good news – a Windows 11 patch coming soon will give all newer AMD chips a free speed boost

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) processors, and some previous Ryzen generations, are going to get a performance boost courtesy of an update to Windows 11 in the near future.An optional patch Microsoft is set to roll out “soon,” according to AMD, will ensure faster frame rates in games (and overall performance elsewhere) for Ryzen 9000,…

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Forget Ryzen 9000, AMD’s next chip might be a Ryzen 5500X3D – and it might just be perfect for a budget gaming PC

AMD might be onto Ryzen 9000 processors at this point, but there’s a new CPU incoming from two generations back – if a new rumor is correct.Yes, AM4 (the previous CPU socket to the current AM5, which was introduced with last-gen Ryzen 7000) is still going, possibly, as leaker Harukaze5719 on X has uncovered an…

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Linux embarrasses Windows 11 when it comes to games performance with AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs – but I won’t be switching operating systems just yet

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 processors run very nicely under Linux it seems, based on recently conducted testing – and indeed it’s a better OS than Windows 11 when it comes to the performance of Team Red’s latest desktop chips, based on one set of findings.PC Games Hardware (PCGH) put the Ryzen 7 9700X through its paces…

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AMD’s Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug – and while there’s a ‘fix’ you absolutely shouldn’t use it

AMD’s Ryzen processors are seemingly being slowed down a fair bit during PC gaming sessions by a purported bug in Windows 11, and in some cases, Ryzen 9000 processors are slightly worse off.This comes courtesy of Hardware Unboxed (via VideoCardz) on YouTube, which noticed in its review of the Ryzen 9700X that the results for…

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Great news for gamers: AMD may be launching two new budget gaming GPUs

The rumor mill has been churning as always and this time, the word on the street is that AMD’s Radeon RDNA 3 lineup may be getting two new budget entry-level graphics cards — the RX 7400 and RX 7300. If true, it would be under the AMD Radeon RX 7600’s $259 price point, considered one…

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Intel raising power safeguard for next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs has rung alarm bells for some – but we’re hopeful it’s a positive sign

It looks like Intel is going to raise the limits for temperatures with its next-gen desktop processors, which could be a sign of confidence in the stability of Arrow Lake – a hopeful hint of things to come, with any luck, in terms of the current worries around Core i9 stability.Before we go leaping off…

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Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole AI Processors: 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W

Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox workstations aimed at software developers. The whole of today’s release is aimed at developers rather…

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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 due to last-minute discovery of problems with some CPUs – launch won’t happen until August now

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs are going to be delayed and won’t arrive at the end of July as originally planned, with Team Red pushing back the launch of its next-gen processors to August due to issues with the chips.Tom’s Hardware reports that while AMD had already started shipping out Ryzen 9000 CPUs to retailers and…

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Intel’s fix for high-end CPU crashes is coming, but a new leak suggests Team Blue could still be in hot water

Intel’s problems with high-end 13th and 14th-gen CPUs crashing and suffering from instability in general may not be over with the patch Team Blue has inbound for mid-August, at least if some fresh leaked info is anything to go by.You probably won’t have missed the latest development from Intel whereby earlier this week, the company…

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Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?

David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt.  He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…

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