A Hong Kong-based PC technology and reviews site has shown that the sanctions-compliant Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090D graphics card can be overclocked to “achieve the performance level of the RTX 4090 FE.”HKEPCgot one of Asus’best graphics cardsin the labs for testing and ran a multitude of synthetic and gaming benchmarks, pitting the RTX 4090D against a handful of its GeForce siblings, including the RTX 4090. It also had no trouble overclocking the US sanctions-compliant graphics card usingGPU Tweak III, which then boosted performance to the level of a standard RTX 4090....

Although solid-state drives with a PCIe 5.0 x4 host interface have been around for a while, drives that are capable of 14 GB/s sequential read speeds are still expensive. This is largely because the market has been dominated with Phison’s PS5026-E26 controller. But this soon may change as Patriot is prepping a particularly interesting product — the Viper PD573 SSD, with a prototype being demonstrated atComputex2024, that promises to bring together very high performance and a relatively low price....

Do you think real-time ray tracing requires a modern GPU? It still does for practical applications, but YouTuber nanochess has a functioning ray tracing demo with ray-traced reflections working on machines as old as an original Intel Pentium Pro (1995), and in only *483 bytes at that. Below, we’ve embedded the original video of this demo, titledBoot Sector Ray Tracer. *Previously 506. Changed during the writing of this article! Boot Sector Ray Traceris a simple demo showcasing a camera coming across two reflective orbs floating in the air in the middle of a large, empty space surrounded by a colorful sky....

Samsung is set to introduce 3D packaging services for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) this year, according to a report from theKorea Economic Dailythat cites the company’s announcement at the Samsung Foundry Forum 2024 in San Jose, as well as ‘industry sources.’ The 3D packaging for HBM essentially paves the way forHBM4integration in late 2025 – 2026, but we are not sure what kind of memory Samsung is set to package this year....

Ethernet is the best way to get a stable and fast internet connection. However, since the Ethernet cable and ports are exposed, they are also prone tomore hardware issues than WiFi. Such problems can inhibit the Ethernet connection from working properly. Your computer or any device using the internet may also have issues in its software components preventing proper usage of Ethernet. So, we have created this article to help you solve such issues....

The Ada Lovelace-powered RTX 3050 A mobile GPU has appeared in a new benchmark listing.BenchLeaks on X spottedthe new GPU in a new Geekbench 6 listing paired to an HP Victus gaming laptop and a Core i7-12650H Alder Lake laptop CPU. TheRTX 3050 Ais a confirmed upcoming mobile GPU based on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, which powers its RTX 40 series GPUs. For one reason or another, Nvidia has opted to re-use its older RTX 30 series nomenclature for this new GPU product rather than naming it under the RTX 40 series branding....

Samsung has accidentally published theproduct pagefor its upcoming 990 Evo NVMe SSD, complete with marketing and hardware specifications (viaWinFuture). Although Samsung is mostly known for making top-end SSDs like its990 Pro, the 990 Evo is a firmly midrange drive thanks to its reads and writes of just 5,000MB/s and 4,200MB/s respectively. However, the 990 Evo is unique in its four PCIe 4.0 lanes / two PCIe 5.0 lanes configuration. Perhaps the 990 Evo’s most unique selling point is that it supports PCIe 5....

ComputerBase reportsthat Samsung is preparing to announce its next-generation QLC NAND V9 flash solution, bolstering a seriously impressive density size of 28.5Gb/mm^2. Samsung’s new QLC flash is substantially denser than its competitors (QLC and TLC) making it it as the most dense flash solution so far by a long shot. At 28.5Gb/mm^2, Samsung’s new QLC 3D NAND V9 solution is nearly 50% denser thanYMTC’s 232L QLC NAND flashat 20.63mm^2, which used to be the industry’s densest flash....

Check out this great deal on one of the largest external HDDs on the market. Data backup enthusiasts rejoice—if you need a high-capacity storage option for your desktop, this large 28TB drive has plenty of space for you to store your pictures and videos, as well as a massive amount of any other data types. The Seagate Expansion drive is a large traditional hard disk drive contained in an external enclosure that requires its own power source....

Several factories in China have been busy repurposing Nvidia GeForce RTX gaming graphics cards to create dedicated AI accelerators, according to a report published by theFinancial Times(FT). The most popular GPU targeted by the reprocessing plants is one of thebest graphics cardsavailable, theGeForce RTX 4090. A manager from one of the factories told the source that he had been responsible for disassembling more than 4,000 Nvidia GeForce graphics cards in December alone....

Securityconsultant and TASBot (Tool-Assisted Speedrun robot) administrator Alan Cecil discovered that Super Nintendo consoles have grown slightly faster because of one of their chips. According to a404 Media report, the classic gaming console uses a Sony SPC700 APU (audio processing unit) with a digital signal processing (DSP) rate of 32,000 Hz. However, SNES emulator programmers noticed in 2007 that the chips ran marginally faster at 32,040 Hz, so they had to use that value instead to prevent some games from breaking....

Performance monitors are nothing new in the realm of PC gaming. Frombenchmarkingthe latest hardware to troubleshooting problematic components, they are as commonplace as the very games we play. These days, reliance on third-party software like MSI Afterburner isn’t necessary as all GPU brands offer built-in overlays inside their driver suites. But what if that third-party software were to offer something unique? Enter,Steam. Steam is launching a newperformance monitortoday, one that tells you exactly how much FPS you’re getting, but also how many of those are fake frames generated by upscaling technologies such as DLSS or FSR....

Your Surface mouse won’t work if the computer doesn’t detect it or the mouse itself is not functioning. And the computer fails to detect the mouse if there are some connection issues or the necessary drivers are corrupt. But it is also possible that you haven’t configured the relevant settings properly. Most modern Surface mice are Bluetooth devices. However, since older Microsoft mice used Wireless or Wired media, we’ll touch upon fixing those as well....