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Crystal Dew World hasreleaseda major update to its retro Windowsbenchmarkingtool. The updated CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 was made available today, as freeware, and the major change here is that its scope has been extended to cover Windows 95/98/Me systems. Previously, it wasn’t quite so retro, as compatibility only reached as far back asWindows XP. As a bonus, the official benchmark score comparison sitecrystalmarkdb.com/retrois also now public and fully operational. According to the software release notes the development of the key features which make CrystalMark Retro 2....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict A solid board that apes the Arduino Uno form factor well, and provides a plethora of GPIO options for very little money. But is the Arduino Uno layout necessary? Grove and Stemma QT LEDs on the GPIO pins Servo connections Is the Arduino Uno layout necessary? Arduino Shield compatibility requires work Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Featuring Klipper and a ridiculously large curtain fan, the Neptune 4 Max is a slightly faster but annoyingly buggy refresh of the Neptune 3 Max. Easy assembly Buggy firmware Difficult to level Noisy fans Huge footprint Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. The Elegoo Neptune 4 Max is a refresh of the wildly popular Neptune 3 Max....

Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus, which it says is designed for taking over household chores, has recently hit a production snag, which Elon Musk calls a “magnet issue.” In early April, China blocked theexport of seven rare earth metalsin response to President Trump’s application of 54% tariffs on Chinese goods. Aside from beingused in global chipmaking supply chains, these materials are also applied in several high-tech industries, including lasers, radar, jet engines, and more....

“The remote computer requires network level authentication, which your computer does not support” message can pop up when you’re trying toconnect to a different computerusing the Remote Desktop app. Well, this is primarily caused by theissues with theNetwork Level Authentication (NLA)feature on the local computer, which is responsible for authenticating remote desktop clients and servers before establishing the connection. Interestingly, the error can be triggered due to issues on either side (remote or local computer)....

Fujifilm Holdings, a major maker of raw materials for semiconductor production and one of a few suppliers of ultra-pure photoresists for EUV lithography, plans to invest ¥100 billion ($640.5 million) by March 2027 to increase its semiconductor materials production globally, according toNikkei. The company reportedly aims to expand capacities in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea as major chipmakers are building up new advanced fabs in the said countries. Yet, Fujifilm has yet to confirm the plan....

Sales of client PCs declined 13.9% year-over-year and totaled 259.5 million units in 2023, according toIDC. Gaming PC shipments experienced a similar downturn as the overall PC market, with a 13.2% year-over-year decrease to 44 million units, analysts from the same firm suggest, which means that gaming machines commanded 17% of the market. Sales of gaming monitors experienced a 20.3% increase, IDC claims. But it appears that things may be rosier for gaming PCs in the near future....

Nvidia’s next-generationGeForce RTX 50-series(Blackwell) laptop graphics cards' memory configurations have reportedly leaked. The materials via (Dominic Alvieri) appear to have originated from a ransomware attack on Clevo, a Taiwanese OEM and ODM manufacturer that produces laptops. The leaked roadmap shows six different mobile Blackwell graphics cards featuringGDDR7memory. Three are based on the GN22 Board 1, and the remaining three are on the GN22 Board 2. Logically, we’re looking at a new package that isn’t pin-to-pin compatible with the existingGeForce RTX 40-series(Ada Lovelace) GN21 PCBs....

For Cyber Monday, high-speed DDR5 RAM suitable for a high-end AMD or Intel platform is at a super accessible price point. Today, you can get a DDR5-7200 C34 kit for under $100 or spend a little more for one with RGB goodness. In most computing tasks, RAM is usually a question of raw capacity rather than speed. However, RAM speed becomes more impactful for CPU-bound workloads and sometimes in gaming. The differences you can see will vary game-by-game....

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color The most impressive part of the GS32Q’s test results is on this page. I would normally use the cliché “for the money” here, but I recorded numbers that would embarrass a lot of more expensive displays. All tests below were recorded in the Standard picture mode....

IDC’s latest data showspositive growth in global PC salesduring the first quarter of 2024, with a return to pre-pandemic sales volumes. After declining for the past two years, worldwide PC sales amounted to 59.8 million during Q1 2024, comparable to Q1 2019 sales when 60.5 million PCs were sold worldwide.The global PC shipments include desktops, notebooks and workstations. Though tablets are usually considered personal computing devices, they’re not included in IDC’s stats....

AI enhancements are seemingly spreading to nearly every corner of tech, and apparently, nuclear reactors are no exception. The Argonne National Laboratory, headed by the U.S. Department of Energy, has been hard at work recently on an AI-centered system that can help both in the design and operation of nuclear power plants. The AI system is known as the Parameter-Free Reasoning Operator for Automated Identification and Diagnosis and has been abbreviated toPRO-AIDfor short....

IT Home reportsthat handheld manufacturer GPD has announced an upgraded version of the Win Max 2 handheld gaming console sporting AMD’s latest Zen 4-based mobile CPU, the Ryzen 7 8840U. However, CPU-Zbenchmarksfrom GPD reveal that the upgraded handheld PC is not much quicker than its7840U-equipped predecessor, to the point where there is virtually no performance difference between the two chips CPU-wise (at least, in the Win Max 2 chassis). In the CPU-Z results, the new Ryzen 7 8840U unit scored 664....