Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 Gaming SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2024-05-12 read/post comments(0)

The MaxioTech MAP1602A along with YMTC Xtacking 3.0 NAND combo performs well even when dealing with lower capacity drives as the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite 1TB, succeeding write rates over 900MB/s even when the pSLC cache has been fully filled. It makes use of HBM instead of DRAM caching, while the heatspreader does help with heat evacuation to permit operation in environments with less than ideal airflow, such as the PS5. read more

Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith RGB 2x32GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-05-07 read/post comments(0)

The XPOWER Zenith RGB DDR5-6000 64GB memory kit from Silicon Power does impress regarding total capacity, tighter timings used for both XMP and EXPO profiles but also with the fact we can overclock the modules further in order to obtain some extra performance. The RGB lighting offered by the modules is not tied to a specific platform, but supports most known motherboard utilities: BIOSTAR was not listed as compatible, but their utility could control the modules just fine! read more

AQIRYS ALYA 2.0 Wireless Gaming Headset Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2024-05-05 read/post comments(0)

After fully charging the headset, we started listening to different YouTube videos, watched a couple of movies but also played a couple of sessions in NFS Unbound, Fallout 4, Minion Masters and Dead Island Definitive Edition; we have noted an improvement regarding high and mid frequencies, which resulted in clearer voices, while maintaining a good representation of bass, ideal for a gaming headset! The battery capacity has been also doubled with the new revision, allowing up to 50 hours of usage from a single charge, while the 4-hour charge time remained the same, which is great! read more

Crucial 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-04-28 read/post comments()

After a rather long initial boot time for training purposes, our Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 laptop loaded Windows OS successfully and the test results were surprisingly good overall, in many cases exceeding the performance of the previously tested Silicon Power kit. The capacity is the main highlight for the Crucial DDR5-4800 64GB SODIMM kit, allowing for complicated and memory-intensive processes to be ran at the same time, such as virtual machines, encoding and rendering tasks and so on. read more

GravaStar Sirius P5 Combo Earphones Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2024-04-21 read/post comments(0)

After connecting the Sirius P5 set to our Samsung S24 smartphone, we started listening to various TV shows via Plex, YouTube videos but also listened to some music: the earphones sound really good, with an impressive amount of bass for such small drivers, while the voices are delivered with clarity. The capacitive controls on each earbud do allow actions such as answering phone calls, audio track skipping, play/pause, volume control or we can also activate the voice assistant. If we are playing games, there is also a mode which minimizes latency to about 48ms, which is great! read more

Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-04-18 read/post comments(0)

The new Pro Series Overclocking kits from Crucial do function with tighter timings for obtaining a better performance overall versus the regular SKUs. Thoroughly tested for both Intel and AMD platforms, these can be considered as plug-and-play, by only activating the necessary XMP/EXPO profile; if the platform we are using is not exactly mainstream-to-high-end, we can still utilize the kits with the compatibility profiles, which is great! read more
Others/Mice & Keyboards CHERRY KC 200 MX Mechanical Keyboard Review by stefan @ 2024-04-14
Others/Mice & Keyboards AQIRYS LIBERTAS Gaming Keyboard Review by stefan @ 2024-04-07
Memory Silicon Power 2x16GB DDR5 4800MHz CL40 SODIMM Memory Kit Review by stefan @ 2024-04-03
Storage/SSD KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G3 NVMe Gen4 2TB SSD Review by stefan @ 2024-03-31
Memory ANACOMDA Eryx Tataricus RGB 4x16GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Setup Review by stefan @ 2024-03-27

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Intel-powered Aurora Supercomputer Ranks Fastest for AI

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At ISC High Performance 2024, Intel announced in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier at 1.012 exaflops and is the fastest AI system in the world dedicated… Go To Full Article

Cities: Skylines II Patch 1.1.2f1 Adds DLSS Super Resolution, Bug Fixes, and More

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Hi everyone. As patch 1.1.2f1 is rolling out on Steam and Microsoft Store, let's have a look at what it includes and what you can expect next. This patch removes the entitlement from all the Beach Properties assets, so they… Go To Full Article

Apple Store workers in Maryland have voted to authorize a strike

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Apple's first unionized Store in Towson, Maryland has now authorized the first strike against the retail giant. That follows what the union called "over a year of negotiations with Apple management that yielded unsatisfactory outcomes," according to a press release… Go To Full Article

AMD RDNA 5 a "Clean Sheet" Graphics Architecture

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AMD's future RDNA 5 graphics architecture will bear a "clean sheet" design, and may probably not even have the RDNA branding, says WJM47196, a source of AMD leaks on ChipHell. Two generations ahead of the current RDNA 3 architecture powering… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Pushes the Boundaries of Scientific Computing

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Quantum computing. Drug discovery. Fusion energy. Scientific computing and physics-based simulations are poised to make giant steps across domains that benefit humanity as advances in accelerated computing and AI drive the world's next big breakthroughs. NVIDIA unveiled at GTC in… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Grace Hopper Ignites New Era of AI Supercomputing

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Driving a fundamental shift in the high-performance computing industry toward AI-powered systems, NVIDIA today announced nine new supercomputers worldwide are using NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to speed scientific research and discovery. Combined, the systems deliver 200 exaflops, or 200 quintillion… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Accelerates Quantum Computing Centers Worldwide With CUDA-Q Platform

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NVIDIA today announced that it will accelerate quantum computing efforts at national supercomputing centers around the world with the open-source NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. Supercomputing sites in Germany, Japan and Poland will use the platform to power the quantum processing units… Go To Full Article

Apple Inches Closer to a Deal with OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT Technology to iPhone

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To bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities to its flagship product, Apple is said to be finalizing a deal with OpenAI to integrate the ChatGPT technology into the upcoming iOS 18 for iPhones. According to Bloomberg, multiple sources report that after… Go To Full Article

Patriot Viper VP4000 Mini 2TB M.2 2230 Gaming SSD

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" ... The tiny Viper Gaming 2TB VP4000 Mini is an exceptional SSD for those who need a lot of space on a mobile console or laptop. It's fast, perfectly stable, and doesn't show performance drops even during extended work.… Go To Full Article

The Emacs window management almanac

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Some of this is deserved, but mostly this is a consequence of combining a very flexible and granular layout system with rather coarse controls. This leaves the door open to creating and using tools for handling windows that employ and… Go To Full Article

Pre-orders for Ghost of Tsushima on PC are being canceled

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People who pre-ordered the PC port of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut in countries that don’t have access to PlayStation Network (PSN) were reportedly notified this weekend that their purchases have been canceled and auto-refunded. Steam, Green Man Gaming and… Go To Full Article

Apple II DeskTop currently testing 1.4 alpha releases

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The goal of this project is to reverse-engineer Apple II DeskTop, and fix bugs and enhance it in the process. I didn’t actually know that the Apple IIgs initially shipped with this instead of the 16 bit GS/OS, which is… Go To Full Article

Obsolete, but not gone: the people who won’t give up floppy disks

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If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn’t seem weird, you’re probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA to install open Linux kernel modules by default

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Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules 119 wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization). Go To Full Article

'Extreme' geomagnetic storm may bless us with more aurora displays tonight and tomorr

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The strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years made the colorful northern lights, or aurora borealis, visible Friday night across the US, even in areas that are normally too far south to see them. And the show may not be over.… Go To Full Article

28 Years Later is coming to theaters next summer

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Fans have been waiting a long, long time for another installment in the 28 Days Later franchise, and we now know when the next followup is coming out: June 20, 2025. Per Variety, Sony Pictures announced the release date for… Go To Full Article

It's Time to Bring Back the Beige PC

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If you were born before the year 2000, there's a good chance your first PC was some shade of gray or beige. What is it about the color that made virtually all computer manufacturers pick it over the now ubiquitous… Go To Full Article

Waymo says its robotaxis are now making 50,000 paid trips every week

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If you've been seeing more Waymo robotaxis recently in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, that's because more and more people are hailing one for a ride. The Alphabet-owned company has announced on Twitter/X that it's now serving more than… Go To Full Article

Generative AI Is Supercharging Scams (Here's How and What to Look Out For)

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The term scam applies to everything from a sophisticated targeted attack to a dodgy pre-roll ad on your favorite video streaming site. The bad news is that engineering these scams is getting easier. Go To Full Article

Asus officially confirms new ROG Ally X handheld console

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Asus has finally revealed a bit more details about the upcoming ROG Ally handheld console update that was rumored earlier, revealing it will be a bit more than just a minor update but rather a redesigned console with the same… Go To Full Article

Nvidia rolls out Geforce 552.44 WHQL driver

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According to the release notes, the biggest update with the new Geforce 552.44 WHQL driver is the support for the new Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut game, which launches on May 16th. The game will feature support for Nvidia DLSS… Go To Full Article

ANACOMDA I4X Fiery Serpent 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

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Description: The I4X Fiery Serpent Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs by ANACOMDA may not be easy to come by but they do deliver very good read & write performance and are covered by a 5-year limited warranty. Go To Full Article

Samsung HW-Q990D soundbar review: A small but significant update

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Samsung’s HW-Q990C was the best overall soundbar I tested last year, mostly due to its stellar audio and the fact that a subwoofer and rear speakers came with it. The company didn’t change much for the 2024 version, the HW-Q990D,… Go To Full Article

Climate protestors clash with police outside Tesla’s German gigafactory

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Climate protestors in Germany broke through police barricades on Friday, amid clashes between activists and law enforcement. The protestors either made it onto (according to protestors) or near (according to local police) the grounds of a Tesla gigafactory in Grünheide,… Go To Full Article

The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online

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The plant’s called Mammoth and boasts 72 industrial fans that can pull 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year. Just like with Orca, the CO2 isn’t recycled. It’s stored underground and eventually trapped in stone, permanently (within reason)… Go To Full Article

AMD Hits Highest-Ever x86 CPU Market Share in Q1 2024 Across Desktop and Server

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AMD has reached a significant milestone, capturing a record-high share of the X86 CPU market in the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest report from Mercury Research. This achievement marks a significant step forward for the chipmaker in… Go To Full Article

Amazon's Echo Dot drops to just $28

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Amazon has been steadily improving the Dot's audio quality over the years and the most recent version from 2022 pumps out far louder and clearer audio than could be reasonably expected from a sub-$50 speaker. The globe-shaped speaker has some… Go To Full Article

Hulu's Black Twitter documentary is a vital cultural chronicle

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They say "Twitter isn't real life," but Black Twitter proved otherwise. For years, that phrase has been a way to ignore the real-world impact of social media conversations, especially when they spark radically new ideas. But that's clearly not true… Go To Full Article

ZMF Caldera Closed Planar Magnetic Headphones @ TechPowerUp

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The ZMF Caldera Closed closed-back planar magnetic headphones manages to combine the bass impact and timbre of dynamic driver headphones with the tactility and low distortion of planar magnetic drivers. It goes for a cleverly implemented, colored tonality featuring multiple… Go To Full Article

Google just patched the fifth zero-day exploit for Chrome this year

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"Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4671 exists in the wild," the company said in a short advisory. It did not issue any specifics as to the nature of the real-world attack or the identity of the threat actors.… Go To Full Article

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