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ASRock Z790 and H770 Motherboards Will Support Both DDR4 and DDR5

By Aaron Klotz published 22 June 22

Leaked information shows twelve new ASRock Z790 and H770 modes that the company is working on, with some of these boards being DDR4 variants.

AMD’s MI300 APUs Power Exascale "El Capitan" Supercomputer

By Francisco Pires published 22 June 22

El Capitan will be leveraging AMD's recently-announced MI 300 Accelerated Processing Units (APUs).

NZXT Enters Thermal Paste Market Touting High Performance and 6.3 W/Mk

By Mark Tyson published 22 June 22

NZXT makes its gray gloop debut with High-performance Thermal Paste, and Alphacool claims it has the best non-liquid metal paste with its Apex product.

AMD Drops FSR 2.0 Source Code, Takes Shots at DLSS and XeSS

By Aaron Klotz published 22 June 22

AMD has officially released FSR 2.0's source code into the wild for anyone to use.

Consumer SSD Prices to Decline 3~8% in 3Q 2022: TrendForce

By Francisco Pires published 22 June 22

Market analysis firm TrendForce expects consumer SSD prices to drop up to 8% in the coming quarter due to oversupply.

Intel Arc A380 Slower Than GTX 1650, RX 6400 in Gaming Tests

By Mark Tyson published 22 June 22

It does better in 3DMark benchmarks, but that's little consolation

QNAP Patches Another Vulnerability, Update Your NAS ASAP

By Ian Evenden published 22 June 22

A QNAP NAS remote code vulnerability has come to light that's already fixed in the latest firmware

Raspberry Pi 'Slimshader' Adds Real-Time Visual Effects to Your Music

By Ash Hill published 22 June 22

Erik Oostveen has created a colorful PCB known as Slimshader powered by a Raspberry Pi that adds custom visual effects to synth music.

Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device

By Francisco Pires published 22 June 22

Democratizing large AI Models without HPC scaling requirements.

Intel Serpent Canyon NUC Wields Alder Lake CPU, Arc A770M GPU

By Zhiye Liu published 21 June 22

Baidu forum post reveals the renders and alleged specifications for Intel's NUC 12 (Serpent Canyon) mini-PCs.

EVGA Starts to Kill GPU Queue Orders as Inventory Normalizes

By Aaron Klotz published 21 June 22

The RTX 3080 FTW3 supply means no more waiting

Steam Deck Mod Allows for Longer M.2 SSD Upgrades

By Zhiye Liu published 21 June 22

Twitter user Belly Jelly shares his method to convert the Steam Deck's M.2 2230 slot to fit longer M.2 2242 SSDs.

PCIe 7.0 to Reach 512 GB/s, Arriving in 2025

By Paul Alcorn published 21 June 22

The PCI-SIG standards committee announced that PCIe 7.0 will provide up to 512 GBps of bandwidth when it arrives in 2025.

Newegg Bonanza Sale Features Radeon RX 6900 XT at $720 After Discounts

By Mark Tyson published 21 June 22

There are also offers on Nvidia cards, motherboards, and monitors.

Crypto Miners Start Dumping GPUs, RTX 3080s Listed for $523

By Zhiye Liu published 21 June 22

Cryptocurrency miners in China have started offloading their graphics cards on the second-hand market, and RTX 3080s are going for $523.

AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 Series Doubles Core Count, Boosts Graphics by 81%

By Mark Tyson published 21 June 22

SoCs and systems are on show at Embedded World 2022

Intel Wants Refund Over EU’s Overturned AMD Fine

By Francisco Pires published 21 June 22

The saga goes back as far as 2000

Raspberry Pi 3A+ Mod Brings Double the RAM

By Ash Hill published 21 June 22

Maker Pi800 has modified a Raspberry Pi 3A+ to use a 1 GB RAM chip from an old 3B+ for an extra speed boost.

The Mixtile Blade 3 as a four-board cluster

Mixtile Announces Blade 3 SBC For Building Massive Clusters

By Ian Evenden published 21 June 22

Stack up to 75 boards for 600 cores of pure computing power.

Microsoft Disables Windows 10 and 11 Downloads in Russia

By Mark Tyson published 21 June 22

Perhaps it is more surprising that Microsoft has taken so long to withdraw Windows ISO file availability in the wake of its official statement regarding Russia sanctions in early March.