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Japanese AIBs Revive AMD's Radeon RX 550 for $155

By Mark Tyson published 23 January 22

The "Expert-Oriented" Radeon RX 550 single-slot and low-profile graphics card sells for an equivalent of $155 in Japan. Retailers say there is "sufficient demand for low profile" GPUs.

Intel May Bet on Stacked Forksheet Transistor Tech for Sub-2nm Chips

By Francisco Pires published 23 January 22

An Intel patent for stacked forksheet transistors may point the way for increased performance, power efficiency, and density beyond 2 nm - or perhaps even sooner.

Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet

By Mark Tyson published 23 January 22

Andorran Minecraft SquidCraft Games Twitch tournament participants eliminated after second daily DDoS on nation's only ISP.

GeForce RTX 3050 Pricing Skyrockets Ahead of Release

By Aaron Klotz published 23 January 22

Two retailers are preselling Nvidia's "budget" friendly GeForce RTX 3050 8GB for two to three times over MSRP.

Raspberry Pi RP2040 StackyPi is Pi Zero Sized and Supports HATs

By Ash Hill published 23 January 22

The new StackyPi Kickstarter promises a Raspberry Pi Zero form factor with added support for regular 40-pin Pi HATs.

Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Face-Off: The Gaming Value Showdown

By Paul Alcorn published 23 January 22

We put the Core i5-12400, Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 5 5600G through a six-round fight to see which gaming chip comes out on top.

How To Build a Simon Game with Raspberry Pi Pico

By Les Pounder published 23 January 22

The Raspberry Pi Pico is one year old and to celebrate we made a classic game using some NeoPixels, buttons and just a touch of CircuitPython.

AMD 3D V-Cache Benchmarks Show Mixed Results For Milan-X CPUs

By Aaron Klotz published 22 January 22

A new review has revealed the performance, latency, and bandwidth capabilities of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology for Zen 3 CPUs.

GeForce RTX 3050 Defeats Radeon RX 6500 XT In Leaked Benchmarks

By Mark Tyson published 22 January 22

The new GeForce RTX 3050 looks like it is a very close competitor to the GTX 1660 Ti, but its architecture, DLSS-ability and 8GB VRAM will boost its longevity.

Intel's Core i5-12490F Hits 5.7 GHz With BCLK Overclocking

By Anton Shilov published 22 January 22

Overclocker pushes Intel’s Core i5-12490F to 5.7 GHz by hiking up the BCLK, representing a 90% overclock.

MoonBounce Malware Hides In Your BIOS Chip, Persists After Drive Formats

By Mark Tyson published 22 January 22

It is very worrying that a trend among malware writers is to attempt to infect your PC motherboard's flash memory, so it can persist through an SSD/HDD wipe or replacement.