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Recent Reddit reports discovered AMD’s latest RX 9000 series GPUs are prone to severe stuttering issues in Unreal Engine 4 games with ray-tracing. YouTuberTech Yes Citypublished a deep dive on the subject, revealing that the issue is not entirely AMD-centric — as some reports have implied. Intel’sArc B580also suffers from similar stuttering problems.The YouTuber tested two ray-traced supported Unreal Engine 4 games on anRX 907016GB, an Arc B580 12GB, and anRTX 507012GB —The AscentandHellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice(not to be confused withHellblade 2)....

Ukrainian Major General Vladyslav (Владислав Клочков) Klochkov says Russia is field-testing a deadly new drone that can use AI and thermal vision to think on its own, identifying targets without coordinates and bypassing most air defense systems. According to the senior military figure, inside you will find theNvidia Jetson Orin, which has enabled the MS001 to become “an autonomous combat platform that sees, analyzes, decides, and strikes without external commands.”...

One of the many Zen 5 architectural changes announced at AMD’s Ryzen 9000Computex keynotewas the architecture’s bandwidth doubling of the L1 and L2 caches.HLX on X(formally Twitter) discovered an Aida64 benchmark run of a Ryzen 5 9600X engineering sample, confirming AMD’s L1 and L2 cache tweaks. The Aida64 benchmark reveals that the Ryzen 5 9600X offers almost 3,800 GB/s of read bandwidth on the L1 cache. Write bandwidth was rated at nearly 1,900 GB/s, and copy speed was tested at almost 3,800 GB/s, just like the read speed, all with a blazing sub-1 nanosecond cache latency, which we would expect from a first-level cache....

If you have a first, second or third-gen Ryzen desktop CPU, you can now get a really great processor upgrade for less than $130, without swapping motherboards or RAM. And, if you’re building a new budget-friendly PC, this deal is definitely for you. Today only, Newegg has theRyzen 7 5800X for a mere $128after you apply promo code FTT354. That’s an all-time low price by $38, according to our records....

TheRyzen 9 7900X3D is now on sale for a mere $328for Amazon Prime Day 2024, which is $53 less than its normal price. That’s a great deal on a beastly gaming CPU that ranks among the fastest gaming CPUs money can buy. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores and 24 threads that run at an impressive 4.4 GHz base and 5.6 GHz boost speed. We praised this chip for its strong performance in ourRyzen 9 7900X3Dreview, but its comparatively high price tag kept us from giving it a full-throated endorsement....

Content creator and extreme overclockerTony Yuhad the rare privilege of being one of (if not the) first people to delid one of AMD’s brand newRyzen 9000processors, which will contend with thebest CPUs. Sadly, the content creator revealed photos of his delidding attempt failing, resulting in a cracked and broken Zen 5 CPU. TheZen 5chip can be seen with the IHS removed from the CPU. The exposed die shot reveals the unsuccessful delid, revealing a cracked I/O die on the Ryzen chip and an unclean break on the IHS, with material still mated to the soldering points that shouldn’t be where the I/O die would be located....

Today’s deal highlights an awesome price on a new Ultra High-Definition (UHD) monitor that’s basically half-price. Although primarily QHD (1440p) monitors are the sweet spot for gaming thanks to their mix of resolution to price ratio, if 4K monitors continue to drop in price like this deal, and still offer high frame rates and connectivity to match, then there could easily be a new sweet spot position opening up for 4K screens....

When a scroll wheel on your mouse stops working, the fault could be in the rotary switch. The rotary switch is a component inside the mouse that converts analog wheel movement to a digital signal. A damaged switch or dust stuck in the point of contact between the rotary switch and the actual scroll wheel could stop the mouse from detecting wheel movement. Besides the rotary switch, incorrect mouse scrolling properties, dead batteries on awireless mouse, or even outdated mouse drivers could also stop the scroll wheel from working....

Today,Seagateintroduced its Exos M 30TB and IronWolf Pro 30TB hard disk drives (HDDs), which utilizeheat-assisted magnetic recordingtechnology. This technology employs a laser to increase storage density. This is the first time Seagate has made HAMR HDDs based on itsMozaic 3+ technologyavailable to the mass market, marking a significant milestone for both the company and the storage industry, which unleashes an unprecedented amount of storage density. Seagate has also shared its in-depth performance benchmarking, which we’ve shared and analyzed below, highlighting strong performance trends for the new HAMR drives....

The European Commission recently asked for the semiconductor sector feedback as it is trying to formulate the European EconomicSecurityStrategy amid geopolitical tensions and strategic dependencies of the industry. SEMI Europe, a semiconductor industry association, responded to the call and issued a paper that calls for the chip industry international collaboration, establishing a structured dialogue between the industry and legislators and also warning the EU from imposing further restrictions against China....

Have trouble accessing some websites? Checking the website on a different device shows no issue. You may have also tried a different browser on your PC. A browser switch may not always work in these types of issues. Restarting your network connectionevery few minutes is also not an option. Here, we highlight some reasons why some websites do not load properly. We also provide information on how you can troubleshoot and fix each one....

There are some situations where you can’t open your Start Menu. It usually happens due to temporary reasons such as Windows Explorer not working properly. But broken updates or corrupt system files can also lead to this issue. If you may open the menu using the Start icon but can’t while pressing the Windows key, the issue could be with the key instead. In such a scenario, we recommend checking our article onWindows key not workingto find the necessary solutions....

Lithuanian system integrator Comino has started accepting pre-orders for its Grando Server that’s supposedly powered by six or eightNvidia RTX 5090s. The AI workstation starts at €40,000 (approximately $42,000) for the base model with six GPUs and could go as high as €50,000 or around $52,500 for the model with two extra GPUs.According to German outletHardwareluxx, Comino recommended that it pay a minimum of €10,000 (about $10,500) deposit to secure a priority slot on the waiting list “due to the high number of pre-orders”....