How to Tell a Graphics Card Is Going Bad or Dead

As much as I want my video card to last forever, I’ve learned it the hard way that one day it might give up on me. Yes, folks! Your graphics card can go bad. And believe me or not, your GPU is smart enough to give you some earlier signs of failure like glitches and abnormal noises. So, before you rage over yourcomponent failing, you can take safety measures and prepare another card just in case....

June 23, 2025 · 9 min · 1899 words · Timothy Jones

How to Transfer Photos From iPhone to Flash Drive?

Transferring photos from iPhone to a flash drive puts you in a win-win situation. On one hand, you have got yourself a backup of your favorite photos. On the other, you can free up storage space on your iPhone if need be. There are different routes you’re able to take to transfer photos from iPhone to a flash drive. From the methods suggested in this article, you can select the one that is feasible....

June 23, 2025 · 4 min · 689 words · Timothy Powell

How to Uninstall Drivers on Windows

You can easily uninstall a driverusing the Device Managerutility in Windows. But simply removing the driver may not completely get rid of the driver files. You also need toremove device driver packagesusing theDisk Cleanuputility. To remove drivers that operate in kernel mode, use a special utility from Microsoft, namedAutoruns. Uninstall Driver from Device Manager The device manager keeps track of all the devices connected to the system and even its drivers....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 447 words · Victoria Brown

Huawei is secretly backing research at U.S. and U.K. universities again — Chinese tech giant continues to draw ire

American and British lawmakers are seeing red as Chinese tech giant Huawei has been found to be funding a major college research competition, a new revelation atop their recently discovered private donations and grants to universities on both sides of the pond. Huawei’s efforts to silently fund the Optica Foundation Challenge is concerning for some, especially lawmakers, but it is not as sneaky or underhanded as the typical ways foreign entities typically interact with schools....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 420 words · Katherine Neal

Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors

Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years. Intel’s warranty extension comes as a result of the crashing and instability issues that have plagued its 13th- and 14th-Gen chips for months. Those issuesimpact all 65W and higher models, meaning the crashes have a widespread impact ranging from the flagship models down to even the pedestrian mid-range chips....

June 23, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Norman Simmons

Intel Foundry Roadmap Update-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement

Intel’s new CEO Lip Bu-Tan took to the stage at the company’s Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event here in San Jose, California, to outline the company’s progress on its foundry initiative. Tan announced that the company is now engaging lead customers for its upcoming 14A process node (1.4nm equivalent), the follow-on generation of its 18A process node. Intel already has several customers with plans to tape out 14A test chips, which now come with an enhanced version of the company’s backside power delivery technology dubbed PowerDirect....

June 23, 2025 · 9 min · 1763 words · Dr. Angel Leonard II

Intel LGA9324 leak reveals colossal CPU socket with 9,324 pins for up to 700W Diamond Rapids Xeons

An alleged picture of the socket that is expected to host Intel’s next-generation Diamond Rapids (Xeon seventhgeneration) family of server CPUs has emerged, as spotted byHXLon X. The LGA9324 socket reportedly carriesover 10,000 pins, once you consider debug pins and the like. This will likely be the largest LGA CPU socket yet, unless futureVeniceofferings from AMD exceed this amount. Last August,test tool listingsfor partners indicated that Intel’s future Diamond Rapids processors will reportedly require a new Oak Stream platform with its LGA9324 socket....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Steven Schwartz

Intel reportedly gave up a chance to buy a stake in OpenAI in 2017

Unlike rivals like Nvidia and AMD, Intel hasn’t made a massive splash in artificial intelligence products aside from some laptop chips with NPUs. According to a report fromReuters, things could have gone differently. In 2017 and 2018, Intel had an opportunity to buy a stake in OpenAI, which was then a tiny non-profit research firm. The report, citing four people with knowledge of the situation, suggests that Intel and OpenAI discussed several different investment options, including purchasing a 15% stake in the company for $1 billion or taking a stake in OpenAI while selling hardware to the AI company “at cost price....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 494 words · Mark Brock

Intel Z890 motherboards reportedly ship with the Intel Default Profile by default — alternative profiles are allowed but only selectable by the user

According toBenchLife.info, Intel’s upcoming Z890 motherboards, expected to be released alongside the forthcoming Intel Core Ultra 200-series (codenamed Arrow Lake) chips, are reportedly shipping with the Intel Default Profile by default. If the information is accurate, motherboard makers cannot set their custom power profiles as the default settings. However, they can still add other profiles that users can select in the BIOS. The instability of Intel’s Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake chips wascaused by faulty microcodesthat made the processor ask for elevated voltages....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Max Arnold

Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 — Granite Rapids sets a new high pricing watermark

When Intelformally introducedits Xeon 6 6900-series ‘Granite Rapids’ on September 24, it didn’t announce pricing, which was a bit surprising. However, after some prodding, the company has now added pricing to its Ark database. As it turns out, Intel’s flagship Xeon 6980P processor with 128 high-performance cores costs $17,800, the highest pricing we’ve seen for a modern x86 CPU — significantly more than AMD’s EPYC ‘Genoa’ 9654 offering with 96 cores, which costs $11,805....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Kimberly Anderson

iPad vs Laptop: Which One Should You Choose?

If you commute a lot or if you want a compact device that does not take much space, then a portable computer might be the best choice. These devices have become so powerful that they can easily replace a desktop computer to perform tasks. The most popular form of portable computers available nowadays are laptops and iPads. These are computers that are designed to be carried around and operate without wall power....

June 23, 2025 · 8 min · 1553 words · Karen Ramirez

Kingston unveils new CAMM2 RAM modules at Computex — bold new RAM form factor comes to PC on MSI and Asus boards

Kingston’s promised CAMM2 modules are here atComputex, bringing the slim and fast RAM standard to desktop computers for the first time. MSI and Asus are also joining the party with their new motherboards being the first to support the new modules. The Kingston Fury Impact DDR5 CAMM2 module is a single stick of RAM in the fresh and newCAMM2 standard. The module shown off atComputexruns at a blazing DDR5-5600 and will release in 32GB and 64GB sizes, with 128GB and 256GB sizes suspected to come in the future....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 513 words · Dana Andrews

Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD

Plextor is one of the legendary names in client PC storage and has been associated with high quality and performance for nearly three decades. But it looks like Kioxia thinks differently, as it has decided to shut down the Plextor brand for SSDs and use the Solid State Storage Technology (SSSTC) trademark instead, according to a report byHKEPC. SSSTC will focus solely on drives forenterprise, datacenter, and industrial applications. TheGoPlextor.comwebsite has already been shutdown, andPlextor....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Aaron Bailey