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High Contrast mode applies a special system color scheme to change the look of your desktop elements and Windows applications. It’s popular among people with low vision as it helps improve readability and also comes in handy in a low-light environment. However, setting the contrast too high can causeunexpected eye strainsand theimage detailing may also get lost. You may want to disable this toreset your display settingsor if it was accidentally enabled....

Underclocking your GPU lowers the performance of your graphics card to put less stress on it. While there are other incidental benefits, most people who set out to underclock part of their PC do it to make the components last longer. Underclocking your GPU is easier than you might expect because most manufacturers include management software for free with your graphics card. Why You Should Underclock Your GPU Many surprising positive things can come from underclocking your GPU....

If you want to get the best out of your HP laptop, it’s best to fully update the laptop by installing all available updates. These updates introduce new features, resolve previous bugs and improve the performance and security of your system. To fully update the laptop, you must update all of its software components. This includes the operating system, device drivers, firmware, and motherboard BIOS. You can either use HP’s dedicated support tools or the built-in Windows functions to achieve all these tasks....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict HP has retooled its excellent Spectre x360 as the OmniBook Flip Ultra. The hardware is good, and battery life is improved. But there’s lots of software bloat, and Copilot+ appeal feels limited, especially as Microsoft again delays Recall. Solid, svelte design Pleasing screen Good keyboard and touchpad Lots of unnecessary software Some promised software is delayed, again Port type and location could be better 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....

Huawei’s consumer line of SSDs, the eKitStore Extreme 200E series, is finally available for purchase at one South Korean etailer, and the 1TB model costs a mere $32 (via@Jukanlosreveon X). Although Huawei has been making server SSDs for some time, it hadn’t gotten into consumer-grade storage until June this year, when Huaweilaunched its eKitStore Extreme 200E drives. Ranging from 512GB to 4TB, and featuring speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s in reads and 6,700 MB/s in writes, Huawei’s NVMe SSDs are pretty high-end among PCIe 4....

Intel is on track to launch its next-generation Arc desktop GPUs codenamed “Battlemage” next month, perGolden Pig Upgrade Pack- a hardware sleuth and a reliable leaker.Battlemage will utilize Intel’s Xe2-HPG architecture - a spinoff of Xe2-LPG seen on Intel’s latestCore Ultra 200V(Lunar Lake) CPUs. The leaker doesn’t go in-depth regarding the details and says they’re looking forward to Battlemage on “desktop” next month. These GPUs are said to offer brilliant performance, but we don’t expect them to topple Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and the like....

Intel Clearwater Forest processors made an appearance in a Linux kernel patch which was shared earlier today. This is significant, asPhoronixnotes, because it is the first patch addressing Clearwater Forest, an upcoming all E-Core Xeon processor family that is expected to launch sometime in 2025. Moreover, in the patch notes, we see that Clearwater Forest chips will use Atom Darkmont cores. As a first patch, the support for Clearwater Forest delivered in this release is extremely limited....

Intel explained the rationale behind its High-NA EUV strategy at itsIntel Foundry Direct 2025conference this week. Despite persistent questions around cost-effectiveness, Intel haschampioned its use of the new High-NA EUV chipmaking toolwith its forthcoming 14A process. However, Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new tool in production, but it has an alternative production flow of its 14A node that uses standard Low-NA EUV as a backup plan....

A new Linux kernel patch brings hardware enablement for Intel’s Bartlett Lake-S family of processors. In the same patch, an Intel engineer has seemingly confirmed the existence of a P-core-only counterpart to Bartlett Lake, viaPhoronix. This update enables the kernel to properly identify these processors at boot, assigning them a CPUID for recognition in software. Likewise, these CPUIDs also allow the compiler to execute hardware-specific code path optimizations using the Intel CPU dispatcher mechanism....

JEDEC haspublishedthe official HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory 4) specification under JESD238, a new memory standard aimed at keeping up with the rapidly growing requirements of AI workloads, high-performance computing, and advanced data center environments. The new standard introduces architectural changes and interface upgrades that seek to improve memory bandwidth, capacity, and efficiency as data-intensive applications continue to evolve. HBM4 continues the use of vertically stacked DRAM dies, a hallmark of the HBM family, but brings a host of improvements over its predecessor, HBM3, with significant advancements in bandwidth, efficiency, and design flexibility....

Does your keyboard make a beeping/click sound when typing on the keyboard? Or, are you hearing the sound only when pressing specific buttons on the keyboard? Generally, sticky keys and filter keys are responsible for generating these sounds. And, turning them off has worked well for most people. However, the exact reason behind your issue can be completely different and may not work in your particular case. So, without further ado, let’s get into the article to learn more about how to fix keyboard noise when typing....

The launch ofSony’sPlayStation 5 Prois imminent, set to arrive in four days (on November 7) to the tune of $699 USD. At this price point, Sony is promising massively improved resolution and framerate through the use of AI upscaling with PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), and a souped-up CPU and GPU compared to the base PlayStation 5 released back in November 2020. Considering the absence of a similar upgrade from Microsoft’s Xbox brand, it seems the high-end console gaming throne has truly been ceded to Sony — and an apparent teardown of the new strongest console appeared on YouTube just last night....

According to apost by @olrak29_on X (formerly Twitter), the package size of AMD’s upcoming Navi 44 GPU, which will supposedly power theRadeonRX 8600 series, has been leaked. While the package size does not reflect the die size, it is claimed to be around 31% smaller than Navi 33, the smallest GPU in the Navi 3X family. Olrak shared the alleged package size of Navi 44, the budget-oriented GPU in the Navi 4X series....