Zak Killian
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A team of Columbia University engineers may have stumbled on a key to cooling the AI industry's energy fever. While trying to boost the power of chips for LiDAR—laser-based sensing used most notably in self-driving cars—the researchers...
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Have you read our review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X? It's an interesting device, with a powerful AMD SoC that outstrips the one in the original ROG Xbox Ally X, and it also debuts a new "full screen experience" for Windows PC games...
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Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an...
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We wanted to like the original Intel Arc GPUs, but Xe was honestly a bit of a downer. That's why we were so impressed with Xe2, both in the form of the Lunar Lake integrated GPU as well as in the Battlemage discrete GPUs. Is it possible...
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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X: $999.99 at Best Buy ASUS and Microsoft's new handheld PC gaming machine is a revised version of the original Ally X sporting a new Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, a new Windows gaming frontend, and even-more-premium pricing...
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At the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, ASRock Rack and ZutaCore jointly unveiled what they're calling the first NVIDIA HGX B300 system with fully integrated "waterless liquid cooling." The new 4U16X-GNR2/ZC server pairs NVIDIA's latest...
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AMD's Socket AM4 launched way back in September 2016, and it's still getting new CPUs released to this very day. However, some of the earliest boards may not have ever gotten the necessary BIOS updates to support newer-generation CPUs...
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Battlefield 6 is out, if you haven't heard. Capitalizing on gamer dissatisfaction with recent Call of Duty releases, the new Battlefield title offers a tightly-optimized military shooting experience that many are calling a return to form...
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One of the big features that AMD fans boast about when extolling the virtues of the Ryzen platform is forward compatibility. This very writer bought an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard way back in 2019 for the launch of AMD's Ryzen 3000...
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Intel is gearing up for a major leap in integrated graphics performance with its upcoming Panther Lake processors, powered by the next-generation Xe3 architecture. While the company's new Talking Tech video, "The Road to Panther Lake,"...
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Now look, we're not going to lie to you: if you're trying to find a GeForce RTX 5090 for $1100 like that guy on Reddit, we can't help you. But, if you're trying to find a reasonably priced graphics card in a sea of scalpers and scammers, then we can hook you up for sure—with the help of...
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Borderlands 4 got you feeling like it's time for a system upgrade? Looking ahead to future path-traced titles and want to make sure your system is up to snuff? Or simply staring longingly at those Amazon Big Deal Days prices and wondering...
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When's the last time you saw a dual-GPU video card? Probably back around Computex, when MAXSUN was quietly showing off its Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual, which is exactly what it sounds like: two Arc Pro B60s, replete with their own 24GB of GDDR6...
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Discord's latest security screw-up is exactly the kind of nightmare privacy advocates have been warning about since platforms started demanding government IDs for "safety." The company confirmed this week that a breach at one of its...
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AMD has fully AI-powered frame generation on the way with its FSR Redstone project, but that's not here yet. In the interim, the company has something interesting: the option to customize "Fast Motion Response" within its "Fluid Motion...
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For years now, folks have been using Rufus to bypass Windows 11's onerous installation requirements. Got a system without Secure Boot or a functional TPM? No problem! Some buzz was going around that this was no longer possible with Windows...
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Imagine your building not just protecting you from the elements, but also storing electricity. MIT researchers just gave that idea a major push with a new version of "electron-conducting carbon concrete," or ec³. The material now stores...
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Among chip nerds, Jim Keller is a name that needs no introduction, but if you aren't familiar, he's a veteran from the days of Digital Equipment Corporation. He contributed directly to the DEC Alpha, the AMD K7 and K8 cores powering the...
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The core principle of a tiny-yet-powerful AI workstation with real Blackwell GPU chops is enticing to a lot of developers and enthusiasts. That's exactly what's interesting about NVIDIA's DGX Spark, powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell...
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AMD's socket longevity has always been a strong point for the company. AMD supported Socket 7 longer than anyone, and aside from a few missteps (with Slot A and later, some of the APU sockets), the company has typically tried to offer at...
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Home automation is one of those things that's both much older than people think—the foundations were laid in 1966—and yet still quite controversial in the era of cloud-based everything. Typically, your response to modern smart home...
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Intel's graphics division has been busy shaking up its driver strategy over the past month, and the news cuts both ways. On the one hand, Intel has pulled the plug on day-to-day support for the integrated graphics in several recent Core...
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