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New Chrome Version Will Support Nvidia 4K Upscaling

By Mark Tyson published 5 February 23

The update is ready on the browser side, and is just waiting for a new Nvidia driver to be functional.

Buying Second-Hand GPUs Is a Good Idea, Even From Miners: LinusTechTips

By Aaron Klotz published 5 February 23

Linus from LTT has provided testing that shows buying a used mining GPU is safe to do, amidst the growing trend against buying mined-on GPUs because of reliability concerns.

How to Check SSD Health in Windows 10 and Windows 11

By Brandon Hill published 5 February 23

Here are some tools that access SMART functionality on your SSD to determine its health

Intel Selling RGB Arc Alchemist Mousepad to Celebrate its GPUs

By Aaron Klotz published 4 February 23

Intel has made a new RGB illuminated 930 x 400mm mousepad that has the same color aesthetic as its Arc GPUs.

DIYer Passive Cools Core i9 with 8-Pound Copper Block

By Mark Tyson published 4 February 23

An Intel Core i9 CPU was successfully cooled by an 8lb copper block salvaged from medical machinery, but we aren’t sure how well it would have held up under prolonged workloads.

Vintage 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Prototype GPU Fetches $5,500 Bid

By Zhiye Liu published 4 February 23

A graphics card collector has put up his precious 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 prototype graphics card for auction on eBay.

Chinese-Made PCIe 5.0 Gaming GPU Benchmarks Emerge

By Zhiye Liu published 4 February 23

Graphics card collector Löschzwerg benchmarks China’s homemade Moore Threads MTT S80 gaming graphics card.

Go Big With This Anycubic Kobra Max 3D Printer Now Only $549: Real Deals

By Stewart Bendle published 4 February 23

Why limit what your imagination can produce just because your print bed isn't big enough? Grab an Anycubic Kobra Max printer for $549.

So many Nvidia GPUs, so little open-source Linux driver support... until now!

Discord Throttles Nvidia GPU Memory Clock Speeds, Here's the Fix (Updated)

By Zhiye Liu last updated 4 February 23

The new Discord application, when running in the background, will prevent the memory on Nvidia graphics cards from hitting their full speeds.

China Backdoors US Chip Sanctions, Buys Used Banned Equipment

By Anton Shilov published 3 February 23

Chinese chipmakers accelerate wafer fab equipment purchases.

Asus UK Offers Terrible GPU Trade-in 'Deals' for RTX 40-Series Sales

By Zhiye Liu published 3 February 23

Asus UK runs graphics card trade-in program for a handful of GeForce RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace) graphics cards .

AMD Hasn't Forgotten Radeon RX 6000 GPUs: New Drivers Incoming

By Anton Shilov published 3 February 23

AMD vows to release new drivers for Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs in the next couple of weeks.

Alleged Nvidia AD106 and AD107 GPU Pics, Specs, Die Sizes Revealed

By Anton Shilov published 3 February 23

Nvidia's AD106 and AD107 graphics processors are small, but will they be cheap?

De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

By Mark Tyson published 3 February 23

Tiny11 uses 8GB of disk space, compared to 20GB+ for the standard install.

Puget Abandons Samsung 990 Pro SSDs Over Reliability Concerns

By Brandon Hill published 3 February 23

Reliability concerns surrounding the Samsung 980 Pro and 990 Pro have Puget rethinking its storage choices.

Best Graphics Card Deals: Cheap Nvidia and AMD GPUs

By Avram Piltch last updated 3 February 23

You can save money on Radeon, RTX, and GTX cards.

China's Origin Quantum Delivers a Commercial 24-Qubit Quantum Computer

By Anton Shilov published 2 February 23

Origin Quantum develops China's first quantum computer, ships it with OS, software, and cloud computing platform.

Nvidia's RTX 4090 Appears on Latest Steam Hardware Survey

By Jarred Walton published 2 February 23

The RTX 4090 and other new and upcoming GPUs make their debut with the latest Steam Hardware Survey, which shows data from January 2023.

Rare Nvidia RTX 3060 Emerges With Full GA106 Die, 3,840 CUDA Cores

By Zhiye Liu published 2 February 23

TechPowerUp's GPU database editor shares a submission of a never-before-seen GeForce RTX 3060 SKU with 3,840 CUDA cores.

Intel's Talks Next-Gen GPUs: Xe2-HPG and Xe2-LPG

By Anton Shilov published 2 February 23

Intel vows to reduce IP variations between different GPU microarchitectures.