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Nvidia’s most affordableRTX 40-seriesdesktop graphics card is starting to push toward $500 at U.S. retailers. Yet, despite its horrific pricing, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 currently tops thebest seller GPU chart on Newegg US, with an MSI Ventus model listed at $460 (and it “ships from Hong Kong”). Further down the chart, the only other RTX 4060 model in the top 20 is a triple-fan Gigabyte Eagle model at $455 (which ships from the US)....

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founders Editionis the first Founders Edition graphics card equipped with thermal metal.TechPowerUptested the RTX 5090’s liquid metal bybenchmarkingthe GPU with its stock liquid metal application against the GPU re-pasted with conventional thermal paste. The outlet discovered a two-degree Celsius difference in temperatures. In TechPowerUp’s thermal testing, the RTX 5090 Founders Edition averaged 77.6 degrees Celsius. After replacing the default liquid metal material withArctic MX-6thermal paste, the outlet saw a 1....

Russian state-ownedenterpriseRostec is taking a break from defense contracting and is moving to the mini-PC market. Rostechas announcedthe finalization of its MP21 computer, a self-proclaimed Raspberry Pi 5 competitor running on an Elbrus 2S3 processor. The problem for Rostec is that TSMC has not manufactured Elbrus chips since Russian sanctions began in 2022. The MP21 is a 95x95mm mini-PC like a Pi computer, albeit with noticeably larger dimensions. The MP21, the smallest computer ever to be powered by the Elbrus 2S3, will come equipped with up to 8GB RAM and an SSD between 60 and 480GB of non-soldered SSD storage....

The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12-core mobile CPU was spotted in yet another leaked benchmark run, combined with a new Ryzen 7 part dubbed the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360. As reported byIT Home, the two processors were spotted in the CrossMark benchmark, where the Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 outperformed Intel’s outgoing Core Ultra 9 185H processor. However, the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 showed underwhelming results, beaten by a two-generation old Ryzen 9 7940HS with the exact core count....

Yesterday,Samsung unveiledrefreshed high-end OLED, IPS, and VA models from its Odyssey OLED, Smart Monitor, and ViewFinity lineups. Among the improvements brought to the monitors include near-universal AI enhancements, with 4K AI monitors now capable of upscaling content to 4K in real-time fully onboard, supposedly while maintaining gaming-appropriate latency. 2024 Samsung Monitor Refreshes (32-Inch Model Selection*) *There are a few more monitor models not listed here,but these are typically minor alterations (i....

Seagatehas expanded the brand’s SSD lineup with a new BarraCuda 530. The PCIe 4.0 SSD, which appears to be an upgrade over the BarraCuda 520, is an M.2 2280 drive that will compete with thebest SSDson the market. While the 530 SSD is still a PCIe 4.0 x4 drive like its predecessor, Seagate has upgraded it to NVMe 2.0, a step up from the BarraCuda 520’s NVMe 1.4 specification. Details are very slim now, since Seagate only recently listed the BarraCudea 530 on the company’s website, without making a formal announcement....

Seagatewill bring a 100-terabyte HDD to market by 2030, according to comments from its CCO. In an interview withCNBC, Chief Commercial Officer BS Teh shared Seagate’s new 100 TB goal, citing demand from the AI and HPC markets driving the great leap in capacity. “This is a key enabler for the industry to be able to deliver the storage capacity that the market needs,” shared Teh when asked about the demand for 100TB units....

The search feature on the start menu or taskbar as well as the file explorer are the most convenient means of looking up apps and files in your system. However, since this feature relies on many processes and services, it may stop working if the corresponding processes encounter any problems. In such situations, the search app may not work at all or it may not help you search for all the items or contents in your system....

At today’s Windows and devices event, partner OEMs opened the floodgates for new thin and light laptops using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X family of Arm processors. While Qualcomm has released Arm chips in the past, runningWindows on Arm, this is the first time it has hardware that is truly powerful enough to take on current-generation mobile chips from Intel, AMD, and even Apple. Not only does the new Snapdragon X family seem to offer compelling performance and efficiency coupled with long runtimes, but it also features a powerful Hexagon Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is the focal point of theWindows 11AI revolution and is capable of 45 TOPS compute....

The Diagnostic Policy Service, or the DPS, is a troubleshooting service that detects any problem with the Windows component and tries to fix the issues it finds. The Service, when it is running, may take high CPU usage. However, it is a cause for concern if the process constantly uses high CPU resources. You will see performance drop when the CPU uses most of its resources. This happens because once theCPU reaches high temperaturedue to maximum usage, the processor lowers its performance to prevent itself from any damage....

When the error “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b)” pops up, it stops the game or a program you are trying to run. This error usually means that the application you are trying to run is a 32-bit application without a 32-bit DLL (Dynamic Link Library) file. However, incorrect Redistributable on your computer may also activate this error message. Although you get the error message saying the application could not start correctly, there are some fixes you can try to repair the program....

SRAM scalingcame to a screeching haltwith the last round of new process nodes, portending a dark future where on-chip memories would become increasingly expensive. However,contrary to what we’ve seen in the past, SRAM scaling apparently isn’t dead after all. TSMC has announced that itsN2 process technology (2nm-class)offers substantial improvements in performance, power efficiency, and area (PPA) compared to previous-generation nodes. However, there is one more thing that TSMC hasn’t yet publicly discussed: considerably smaller SRAM cells and higher SRAM density (38 Mb/mm^2), which will have an impact on the costs and performance of next-generation CPUs, GPUs, and system-on-chips....

Chip startupEfficient Computerhas emerged from stealth mode andunveileda processor microarchitecture that promises to be 100 times more energy efficient than currently available general-purpose CPUs. The reconfigurable processor architecture is tailored for specific use cases, particularly in low-power embedded and edge computing, and requires a proprietary software stack (compiler) that supports general programming languages.Reutersreports that Efficient already has its first test chip, called Monza. Traditional general-purpose processors are architected to handle virtually all workloads possible and to be backwards compatible with software released decades ago, which greatly increases their complexity and eventually power consumption....