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The latest Steam Survey appears to show that gamers blessed with systems packing 32GB or more RAM and 1TB or more storage are a dying breed.
Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.
The Biwin M560 brings SMI’s SM2504XT to retail with top-tier responsiveness and excellent efficiency, though not the fastest post-cache writes.
An open-source UEFI tool, nv-uefi-unlocker, lifts Nvidia’s tensor rate cap on RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs under Windows.
ASRock’s B860 Challenger Wifi covers the basics and performs well, but slower USB ports, weaker VRMs, and a dated BIOS keep it from standing out, even at the lower price.
Client platforms struggle to get memory anyway, right?
Expensive memory forces former Microsoft engineer to make his own — Dave Plummer makes PDP-11 RAM from scratch
TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC — RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature
