Asus adds AMD Ryzen Zen 5 Granite Ridge CPU support for its X670E motherboards By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 3 April 24 Asus's latest BETA BIOS update brings Zen 5 support to some of its X670E motherboards, hinting that AMD's Zen 5 chips are just around the corner.
MSI Z790 motherboards reportedly failing with cracked PCH chipset — a manufacturing error may have affected a few hundred units (Updated) By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 2 April 24 MSI has not made any public comments on the failures.
HP ends ties with Russia, shutting down its Russian website — website redirects to Kazakhstan with no support By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 30 March 24 Earlier, HP also turned off its Belarus website as required by the sanctions.
Chinese retailer lists $139 'Thor Darth Vader' 2K IPS monitor - looks nothing like Thor or Darth Vader By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 28 March 24 450 nits brightness, so a little on the Dark Side
Huawei gains 11% in a down year for Chinese PC sales — Dell loses 44% market share By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 26 March 24 Lenovo still leads with the highest PC sales, HP in second.
China blocks Intel and AMD CPUs for government offices and servers, plans to switch to domestic-made alternatives By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 25 March 24 China would replace AMD and Intel-made CPUS with home-made options from Loongson and Phytium.
Russian businesses get shut out from Microsoft cloud services at the end of this month – new EU sanctions come into effect By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 24 March 24 As required by EU sanctions, Microsoft will soon stop all the cloud computing services it provides to Russian-based organizations and businesses.
The Sibolan SZBox S69 Ryzen Mini PC is made in a 'Power-Ranger' choice of colors — but older hardware and pricing means this isn't a superhero By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 24 March 24 The SZBox S69 Mini PC offers a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU with Radeon 680M graphics, and two DDR5 SO-DIMMs, supporting up to 64GB RAM and combined internal M.2 storage up to 8TB.
Chinese smuggler tried to slip 44 tattered RX 580 GPUs through customs By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 23 March 24 The confiscated Radeon RX 580 graphics cards have seen better days.
Despite Ban, China-based cryptocurrency investors made $1B in gains during 2023 By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 18 March 24 Will this encourage GPU-based mining farms to flourish?
Typing sounds can be used to determine keystrokes, new research shows -- your keyboard can reveal passwords, even in noisy environments By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 18 March 24 43% success rate doesn't sound that impressive, but if the same input is recorded multiple times, the rate is likely to improve.
FCC quadruples requirements for basic broadband service — 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload are now the base standard By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 15 March 24 The FCC released a new report which sets the broadband benchmark from 100 Mbps download speed while emphasizing the slow internet deployment in villages and
Fanless Intel N100 stick PC bundles Windows 11, 16GB RAM and 256GB eMMC into a tiny form factor By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 14 March 24 Mele PCG02 Pro Stick PC is meant to provide general-purpose computing
Banana Pi launches $30 OpenWRT Wi-Fi 6 Router with WPA3 protection, optional PoE By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 12 March 24 Banana Pi's low-cost router supports 2.5G+5G WiFi with LAN ports
Microsoft Windows 10 21H2 support will officially end for businesses and education institutions in June By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 12 March 24 Windows 10 22H2 support will end in 2025.
Gigabyte now offers three-year warranty for its entire QD-OLED monitor range By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 8 March 24 Gigabyte follows Asus and MSI by providing a three-year warranty for QD-OLED monitors which naturally inherits burn-in issues and provides peace of mind to its users.
Adata debuts heat-dissipating PCB coating with DDR5-8000+ memory, claims it boosts cooling performance by 10% By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 6 March 24 This coating will be used on Lancer Neon RGB and Lancer Neon RGB series DDR5 memory kits
Pumpless 240mm AiO cooler is only 8C behind traditional pump-powered rival in tests By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 3 March 24 Der8auer showed off a prototype pumpless AiO from a company called Wieland. This CPU cooler relies on the thermosyphon effect, and isn't far behind a traditional AiO in performance.
AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients — Morris II generative AI worm steals confidential data as it spreads By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 2 March 24 Researchers successfully tested this Morris II worm and published its findings using two methods.
Intel has a new driver for Wi-Fi 7 adapters but they may still not work on AMD systems — Intel BE200/BE202 incompatibility on AMD platforms remains uncertain By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 2 March 24 Intel claims it has fixed BE200/ BE202 compatibility issues with 'some PCs'.
Asus offers up to $110 for AMD Radeon GPUs with new cashback promo By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 2 March 24 Asus launches a cashback promo for select Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in the UK, Germany, Austria, and France.
HP begins subscription plans for its printers and ink — up to $36 per month, includes limits and cancellation fees By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 1 March 24 Fine print requires the users to commit to a two-year lock-in subscription
Intel's Pentium project manager and former India head Avtar Singh Saini dies at 68 By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 29 February 24 Former Intel India head Avtar Singh Saini who played a crucial role in the development of Intel 386, 486, Pentium and Itanium series processors,
Nvidia forces GeForce Now gamers on free tier to watch ads while waiting to play By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 27 February 24 To offload the operational cost and perhaps to gain enough revenue to reduce load times, Nvidia now displays advertisements when its free users queue up for game sessions.
GPU‐punishing FurMark 2 released with cross-platform support for Windows, Linux - macOS and Raspberry Pi support in the works By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 25 February 24 FurMark 2 gets plenty of QOL and technical updates with this release.