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Windows Driver Foundation is one of the system files that consists of libraries that developers use when writing code for the driver that runs on Windows OS. When these system files get corrupted due to malware or some issue with the update, it shows irregular behavior like high CPU usage. Your system will reachextreme CPU temperaturesand will start to thermal throttle when the CPU has high usage. This will drastically decrease your overall system performance....

If you’re looking for an excellent deal on a budget gaming monitor, the Acer Nitro 34 is currently available for one of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen. The Nitro 34 (EDA343CUR Hbmiippx) typically retails for $270, but Newegg currently offers the monitoron sale for a low $199.99. That price includes a large 34-inch curved UWQHD panel (3440 x 1440) with a 1000R curvature, a 1 ms response time, and an anti-glare coating....

There are a lot of portable notebooks suitable for gaming, but when it comes to truly high-performance machines that can rival desktops, they tend to be pretty large. Acer this week introduced its Predator Helios Neo 14 that offers high-end components and a great display in a rather compact 14-inch chassis. In addition, Acer launched its new AMD and Nvidia-based Nitro 14 laptop that offers performance at a more affordable price....

Alienware entered the QD-OLED fray with the 34-inchAW3423DWand later followed up with the revisedAW3423DWF.Dell’s premium gaming brand is doubling down on its QD-OLED offerings by adding two new entries: the AW3225QF and the AW2725DF. We’ll start the discussion with the smaller of the two monitors, the AW2725DF. The AW2725DF has a 27-inch panel with a QHD (2560 x 1440) resolution. More importantly, it’s spec’d with a fast 360 Hz refresh rate, a first for a QD-OLED gaming monitor....

AMD’s fire-breathing Ryzen AI Max+ 395 allegedly crushes Intel’s latest efficiency-focused Lunar Lake CPUs in AIbenchmarks. AnAMD blog postclaims the new Zen 5 + RDNA 3.5 chip is up to 12.2x faster than theCore Ultra 7 258V. AMD benchmarked theRyzen AI Max+ 395and Core Ultra 7 258V (with Arc 140V graphics) in a variety of large language models and LLM configurations, including DeepSeek R1 and Llama. Model sizes were restricted to 16GB to offer a fairer comparison againstLunar Lake-powered laptops with32GB of memory(the highest memory configuration available for these devices)....

Earlier this week David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of client channel business, announced that the company would release its next-generationRadeonRX 9070-series graphics cards this March. Late on Wednesday, heclarifiedthat the company wants its partners to deliver as many custom boards to retailers as possible to ensure widespread availability on release day. In the meantime, AMD will polish its drivers to ensure the new products are among thebest graphics cardsstraight out of the gate....

AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). According to a press release byAnsys, it ran a 2.2-billion-cell axial turbine simulation for Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, testing its next-generation gas turbines aimed at increasing efficiency. The simulation previously took 38.5 hours to complete on 3,700 CPU cores....

AMD is marking a major shift in the development of its ROCm open-source software stack, with the introduction of a new Instinct driver forRadeonInstinct GPUs that will be part of the ROCm toolkit. According to ablog postby AMD, the change aims to improve the toolkit’s usability for ROCm users. The new Instinct driver is a renamed version of the Linux AMDGPU driver packages that are already distributed and documented withROCm. Previously, everything related to ROCm (including the amdgpu driver) existed as part of the ROCm software stack....

Nvidia has shaken the cob webs off its Ampere GPU architecture by announcing two brand-new professional GPUs based on its previous-generation architecture. TheRTX A1000 and A400target the entry-level professional market, with specifications that boasting GPU specifications that are either similar or far worse than the consumer-gradeRTX 3050. These won’t likely be thebest graphics cards, even for professionals, but they’ll probably fill a very specific niche.The two new GPUs fill out the bottom of Nvidia’s professional RTX product stack....

Apple may be late to the party with its artificial intelligence projects, but it certainly doing its best to catch up. On Monday the companysaidthat its Apple Intelligence pack of AI features will roll out from next month with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. This new AI-driven feature set will assist with tasks such as writing, organizing photos, and managing notifications, and it will first launch in U....

Apple’s next iPhone chip is the A18, powering the new suite of smartphones and Apple’s first lineup touting Apple Intelligence features, created specifically for the iPhone 16. The new chip, based on TSMC’s second-gen 3-nanometer technology, combines two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a 16-core neural engine, which Apple says is twice as fast as previous chips for machine learning. It also boasts 17% more system memory bandwidth.Apple compared the chip to the A16 Bionic, the chip in the previous non-Pro iPhones, as opposed to the A17 Pro....

Applied Materials has announced a transformative development in OLED display technology with its newMAX OLED platform. This innovation is said to redefine the scalability and efficiency of OLED manufacturing, enabling high-quality displays across a broader range of devices, including PCs, and TVs. The core advancement is said to lie in transitioning OLED production from Gen 6 to Gen 8 glass substrates. This shift allows manufacturers to produce larger and more cost-effective OLED panels as Gen 8 substrates provide higher yield efficiency, reducing costs by optimizing the number of displays produced per sheet of glass....

Gamescom 2024 is starting in just a couple of days, but ASRock’s lineup of motherboards designed for AMD’s latest AM5 chips and Intel’s Arrow Lake processors may have already appeared online. Popular hardware leaker@momomo_usposted on X (formerly Twitter) a screenshot that appears to show all 800-series motherboard chipset products that ASRock will release. ASRock’s list includes 21 motherboards from the Intel Z890 (14) and AMD X870 (7) chipsets. Remember, as with any leak, please take this list as indicative, at best....