While stock CPU coolers do serve their intended purpose, they aren’t designed for much more – they’re good enough, cheap enough, and that’s about it. Which is fine for the rank and file office PCs of the world, but as we move up to the realm of high-end desktop processors, we’re now talking about chips…
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Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors have been spotted in another leak, and this time round we have some more benchmarks to feast our eyes on.In this case, the benchmarks are drawn from CrossMark (a suite produced by BAPCo to provide a gauge of app performance and responsiveness), and we have results of both Intel’s…
TSMC on Tuesday announced plans to establish a European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) joint venture with its partners Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build a fab near Dresden, Germany. The new 300-mm fab will produce chips on TSMC’s 28/22 nm and 16/12 nm-class process technologies, primarily for automotive and industrial sectors. As the project is planned…
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The installer for the latest Intel graphics card 101.4578 beta drivers adds a “Compute Improvement Program” (CIP) data-gathering component that’s automatically selected during installation. This CIP gathers data for Intel including “categories of websites visited by users (excluding specific URLs) and how they utilize their computers,” according to a report from TechPowerUP (via VideoCardZ). Intel will…
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Intel will be revealing its next-gen Meteor Lake processors at an event in September, along with other details about the road ahead for its CPUs.As VideoCardz flagged up, Intel Innovation is a two-day event taking place on September 19-20, and we’ve just got the schedule for the various sessions that’ll happen there.One of which is…
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Intel’s Meteor Lake processors have been the subject of a new leak which shows they could reach impressive boost speeds.As ever with leaks, we must bear in mind that this info comes with heavy baggage. We can’t be sure it’s authentic, and the source – Bilibili in China – is not always the most reliable.Core…
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It seems that graphics card prices are going up for some models, sadly, though there are still GPUs out there experiencing price drops.Tom’s Hardware does a monthly scout of GPU pricing to produce some very handy stats on price movements for graphics cards at US retailers, and for July, there are some AMD Radeon products…
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Graphics card overclocking is generally reserved for the very top-end GPUs – those that can break world records in this benchmark or that when juiced up – but an expert overclocker out there decided to push Intel’s A770 to its limit, even though it can’t hold a ray-traced candle to Nvidia or AMD’s best graphics…
Newly leaked benchmarks for the Intel Arc A580 graphics card apparently showcase not only its test results but what those results mean compared to its potential competition.According to the leaked benchmark data from Geekbench (and reported on by Wccftech), the Arc A580 has 24 cores, 384 EUs, and 3072 ALUs, with a clock speed of…
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Activision is teasing a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare-related reveal next week. This lighthearted tease, which you can see below, hints that the next Call of Duty is another Modern Warfare, even though 2022’s Call of Duty was Modern Warfare II. However, if you’ve been paying attention to the Call of Duty space, it’s no…
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