AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D Is Back To Its Original Price Of $476 On Amazon, But You Will Only Get Your Money’s Worth If You Pair The CPU With One Of These Discounted Motherboards

After a long wait, AMD’s older Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which is regarded as the second-best gaming processor on the planet, is back to its previous retail price of $476 on…

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Passively cooled AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hovers at 95 degrees without any performance drop, but there is a catch

Asus recently shared a video demonstrating its ProArt PA401 case, featuring a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU cooled passively using a Noctua NH-P1 cooler. The system managed to run without any…

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Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all invest in light-based communication networks powering next-gen chips — Ayar Labs gets $155 million in funding

Large developers of CPUs and GPUs invest hundreds of millions of dollars in developing optical interconnects. Source

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Ryzen AI 7 350 'Krackan Point' APU thrashes Ryzen 7 8845HS and Core Ultra 7 258V in Geekbench 6, although Apple M4 remains far ahead

AMD is expected to announce its much-hyped Strix Halo high-performance mobile chips at CES 2025, which will likely be accompanied by the Krackan Point APUs as well. A recent Geekbench…

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Chinese Hygon 16-core chip trades blows with AMD Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench — Chinese chipmaker continues to leverage AMD's Zen 1 architecture

A new 16-core processor "Hygon C86-4G" has been tested in Geekbench but likely still uses AMD's aging Zen 1 architecture. Source

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Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition 12 GB “Battlemage” Graphics Card Review – A New Mainstream King

Intel entered the discrete graphics card market two years ago with its Alchemist architecture. The launch was highly anticipated, as the company entered a market dominated by NVIDIA and AMD…

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AMD VM security tools can be bypassed, letting hackers infilitrate your devices, experts warn

University researchers find way to trick AMD's secure VM tech into sharing sensitive informationAMD released a security advisory with recommended mitigationsThe bug requires physical access, but in some scenarios could…

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This NAS drive takes up to 12 SSDs and looks like a PS4 gaming console; but Asustor Flashstor Gen 2 is not cheap, and a dozen 8TB SSDs will cost more than $8,000

Asustor Flashstor Gen 2 supports up to 12 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDsPowered by AMD Ryzen CPU, expandable DDR5 memory to 64GBDual 10GbE ports, USB4, ideal for demanding storage tasks Asustor,…

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GPU sales have slumped badly as PC gamers wait for next-gen AMD and Nvidia graphics cards – and I don’t blame them

GPU sales for Q3 are down almost 8% year-on-yearThis is normally a strong period for sales of discrete graphics cardsIt seems that gamers are holding off for RTX 5000 and…

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