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DRAM prices surge 171% year-over-year, outpacing gold price increases
DRAM prices are skyrocketing out of control, with contract prices increased by a whopping 171% for the year.
AMD confirms security vulnerability on Zen 5-based CPUs that generates potentially predictable keys
RDSEED failures are incorrectly being flagged as correct, leading to potentially predictable encryption keys being generated by the random number generator.
The same ASRock B850 motherboard kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs worth $1,000 one by one in South Korea
On QuasarZone, a South Korean forum, the user described how one ASRock B850 Pro RS killed off three different Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs one by one, despite the motherboard being deemed healthy prior.
AMD clarifies its clarifications on controversial RDNA 1 and 2 driver note
So it didn't actually stop USB-C power, and it didn't actually stop driver optimizations...
Producer of stinky thermal paste that corrodes copper has known about the issue since 2024
Stinks, corrodes, does not improve?
GPU surgeon attempts to rescue fatally-bent RTX 4090 that came in for a melted power connector fix
The cooler had separated from the vapor chamber.
Linux gamers won't be affected by AMD's Radeon RX 5000/6000 series driver changes
Despite AMD putting RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPU drivers under maintenance mode, GPU driver support in Linux will remain unchanged.
The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D
The Outer Worlds sequel does not play particularly well with ray tracing turned off, either.
