SteamVR isn’t a virtual-reality device in and of itself. Instead, it lets users with VR headsets link up with games they have on Steam and play in the virtual environment. Unfortunately, it can take a little elbow grease to get SteamVR working the right way unless you’re one of the players who get lucky enough to link in and start playing. There are a few different avenues to fixing SteamVR problems, depending on what issue you’re experiencing....
Synology’s new Plus Series NAS systems, designed for small and medium enterprises and advanced home users, can no longer use non-Synology or non-certified hard drives and get the full feature set of their device. Instead, Synology customers will have to use the company’s self-branded hard drives. While you may still use non-supported drives for storage,Hardwareluxx[machine translated] reports that you’ll lose several critical functions, including estimated hard drive health reports, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analyses, and automatic firmware updates....
A while back, certain Windows 11 Insider Builds faced a major responsiveness issue with the taskbar due to server-side issues. Microsoft patched this pretty quickly, so the newer builds shouldn’t have this issue. Of course, even users not in the Insider program can sometimes face this issue due to reasons like incorrect configurations or system corruption. In such cases, using the correct settings, repairing the corrupt files, and updating the system is most likely to be helpful....
If you’ve been holding out to upgrade your gaming laptop to one with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series graphics processor, you may want to take a close look at this deal from Best Buy on theLenovo Legion Slim 5gaming laptop. Not only is it backed by an RTX 4060 graphics card, but it also features a 14.5-inchOLED display. We had the opportunity to review a similar model of theLenovo Legion Slim 5back in August of 2023 and ultimately found it to be a fantastic experience, rating it at 4....
Users of Intel CPUs spanning 12th Gen to 14th Gen whodare to delidwill soon be able to enjoy the cooling benefits of Thermal Grizzly’s High Performance Heatspreader (HPHS) V1. Compared to Intel’s stock heatspreaders, theThermal Grizzly Intel HPHS V1has a 207% larger surface area and is diamond-milled for an even flatter surface. But what does all of this really mean for performance? According to tests done by Thermal Grizzly using a Core i6-14600K in a custom loop liquid cooling configuration with a Watercool MO-RA3, Thermal Grizzly’s Heatspreader reduces temperatures by 14....
TheThermaltakeG700 gaming desk is ready for multi-monitor setups with the ability to lift 286 pounds, but what really drew our attention was the way you control the standing legs: with mechanical switches and keycaps boasting RGB lighting. You can swap those keycaps out, just like a keyboard, letting you give your desk a bit of flare. Considering how often some of us change keycaps, it just seems like a natural extension of any switches within reach....
I can’t live without my four-way 4K monitor setup that I use for my home workstation. I really appreciate being able to put my chat window on one monitor, play a video on another, and still have two screens for regular work. In fact, I’d really like to up my game to six monitors, but there’s a small problem. My graphics card, like pretty much every other recent graphics card on the market, has just four fibeo ports....
One of the coolest things that came with the release of theRaspberry Pi Picowas making the RP2040 (and recently RP2350) microprocessors available for purchase. Makers get incredibly creative with implementing this processor into their projects, and today, we’ve got an excellent example to share of just that. The masterminds behind Ploopy Co have assembled an RP2040-powered trackpad they call thePloopy Trackpad. The Ploopy team decided to make this project totally open source, which means you’re able to access all of the build files and software to recreate it or modify it yourself at home....
Want a side of crypto with your handheld gaming? On X (formerly Twitter), Ordz Gameshas announced the BitBoy One, its self-proclaimed “world’s first Web3 gaming device”, the BitBoy One on Twitter after two unveiling events. The Twitter announcement followed a Paris Blockchain Week between April 9th and 11th and a “Sneak preview” event April 7th. Ordz Gamestold Decryptthat it is aiming to sell the BitBoy for around $500. The thing is, sub-$100 emulation handhelds that look and play almost exactly like this already exist (here’s an example) and they use the same underlying Arm Cortex A55-powered SoC, theRockchip RK3566introduced in 2020....
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the world’s largest advanced computer chip manufacturers, continues finding its efforts to get its Arizona facility up and running to be more difficult than it anticipated. The chip maker’s5nm wafer fabwas supposed to go online in 2024 but has faced numerous setbacks and now isn’t expected to begin production until 2025. The trouble the semiconductor has been facing boils down to a key difference between Taiwan and the U....
The U.S. government has announced plans to provide TSMC financial support totaling $11.6 billion, comprising $6.6 billion in grants and up to $5 billion in loans. TSMC will use the funding to build three semiconductor production facilities in Arizona, with a total investment exceeding $65 billion. This is the largest financial package the U.S. government approved under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC will build the third fab module near its Fab 21 phase 1, which should start the production of chips using 4nm and 5nm-class process technologies in the first half of 2025....
TSMC started to produce chips on its performance-enhanced N3P (3rd Generation 3nm-class) process technology in the fourth quarter of 2024, as planned, the company revealed at its North American Technology Symposium 2025. N3P succeeds N3E and targets client and data center applications that require enhanced performance while retaining3nm-class IP. The technology will be succeeded by N3X in the second half of this year. TSMC’sN3Pis an optical shrink ofN3Ethat retains design rules and IP compatibility while offering 5% higher performance at the same leakage or 5% – 10% lower power at identical frequencies, along with a 4% transistor density boost for designs with a typical mix of logic, SRAM, and analog blocks....
In the annals of the RTX 40 generation, the RTX Titan Ada reigned as the elusive and mysterious Bigfoot of its time. Various sources unearthed prototypes of this GPU, though Nvidia never released this beast for the mainstream. Roman ‘Der8auer’ Hartung has now managed to secure a prototype of this card, and in a new video, the overclocking expert showcased its capabilities across various games and synthetics, revealing what could have been....
