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Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Lenovo G27q-30 is hard to fault. If you can live without an sRGB mode or USB ports, it will satisfy with accurate color, high contrast and a solid gaming feel for surprisingly little money. Class-leading contrast Accurate out-of-box color Good video processing with low input lag Solid build quality No sRGB mode No extra contrast for HDR content No USB ports 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....

A Linux developer has implemented a couple of changes to a caching algorithm which claim to deliver a 6% performance improvement in I/O operations. IO_uring creator and self-confessedLinuxkernel IO dabbler, Jens Axboe, decided to implement the code changes after putting them off for years butadmitsthe changes were “literally a 5 min job” (h/tPhoronix). Something I’ve had in the back of my mind for years, and finally did it today. Which is kind of sad, since it was literally a 5 min job, yielding a more than 6% improvement....

One of the first truly amazing MP3 players has been brought to life outside the computer screen. The design of Linamp, a real-lifeincarnation of Winamp, combines the classic UI with even more nostalgia—it has the retro appearance ofmini-rack home audio systemsfrom the 1980s. The Linamp system is powered by aRaspberry Pi 4Bwith a 32GB SD card. It utilizes a 7.9-inch extra-wide touchscreen to display the classic Winamp UI, including thespectrum analyzer visualizationwe loved so much and the scrolling artist and title information of the track playing....

A new leak claims that next-generation RTX 50 series laptops arriving in 2025 will not be predominantly powered by the latest generation of Intel and AMD CPUs. A reliable hardware leaker,Golden Pig Upgrade Pack,shared on Weibo that many vendors may pair mobile RTX 50-series GPUs with 13th and 14th Generation Intel or AMD Zen 4 CPUs. According to the leaker (machine translation), “it is predicted that the notebook platform combination next year will be mainly N-1 or even N-2 generation CPU + 50 series....

Nearly 2.7 billionpersonal informationrecords for people in the United States have been posted to a popular hacking forum, exposing names, addresses, and even SocialSecuritynumbers. The data allegedly comes from a company that collects and sells the data for legitimate use, but was stolen and put up for sale in April 2024. Originally, a threat actor known as USDoD claimed to have stolen the information from National Public Data. National Public Data scrapes the information from public sources, uses it to compile individual profiles, and then sells those portfolios....

Tech enthusiast Matt Cole is the determined creator and maintainer ofThe Great MicroSD Card Survey,a significant investigative testing andbenchmarkingtreasure trove that began in July 2023. Cole has “set up 8 machines with close to 70 card readers running around the clock… writing 101 terabytes of data per day,” in order to expose the MicroSD card diamonds in the rough and to find fake cards with inflated capacity ratings and cards that use sub-par ‘fake flash....

Intel announced the chipmaker’s newArc Pro B50 andArc Pro B60atComputex 2025. Maxsun has stitched two of the latter models to produce the Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo, a dual-GPU solution that provides 48GB of GDDR6 memory designed to address the most challenging AI workloads. Dual-GPU graphics cards were once popular, but technological advances have made them obsolete. The last consumer-grade dual-GPU graphics card from Nvidia was likely the GeForce GTX Titan Z from 2014, while AMD’s was theRadeonPro Duo from 2016....

Microsoft Photos is one of the most used photo viewing applications in Windows. It is very easy to use, and many Windows users use it as their default application for viewing images. However, even this simple app can run into errors and stop working. This error was first reported on Windows 10, but it can also affect other Windows versions. Sometimes, your photos may not load, an error message may show up, or the screen stays blank when MS Photos is not working....

Suppose the Xbox Game Pass' Day 1 release model has seemed unsustainable to you. In that case, you aren’t the only one— yesterday,Microsoftannouncedthe abolition of the Xbox Game Pass for Console to be replaced by a future Standard tier and a price increase of $5 for Game Pass, an ultimate total of $19.99 per month, instead of its current $14.99. These figures assume you’re reading this from the United States, but Microsoft has a dedicated PDF for Game Pass users from other countries who want to see the exact price change for their currencies....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Mode Loop TKL (2024) is a classy custom mechanical keyboard that you don’t have to build yourself (but can if you want to). It gets expensive quickly, but its plentiful customization options, minimalist style, and excellent typing experience make it a compelling way to elevate your typing experience to new levels. Pros Excellent online configurator to easily determine your favored design Lots of customization options to make look and feel your own...

A mouse, generally, starts to malfunction when you have a corrupted mouse driver or a faulty mouse itself. However, wrong power settings, issues with the antivirus, or corrupted system files are known to make yourmouse malfunction. One of such malfunction is the computer not registering mouse clicks. In this article, we have listed some reasons your PC doesn’t register mouse clicks and possible solutions to it. Why Is My Mouse Clicks Not Registering?...

MSI hasintroduced two new system updatesto its Claw handheld gaming PC to alleviate previously reported issues surrounding gaming performance. MSI has published a new BIOS update — E1T41IMS.106 as well as a new GPU driver update — 31.0.101.5445 for the IntelMeteor Lake-powered handheld that combined boosts performance by up to 150% in certain titles. MSI shared a performance comparison in 19 titles comparing the new updates to the Claw’s outgoing driver and BIOS revisions....

One reasonMicrosoft’s Windows andIBM-developed PC architectures are so pervasive now is that both were open for third parties to innovate. For some time, x86 processors have dominated the Windows PC space. It will change as Qualcomm launches its Snapdragon X Elite processors for Windows PCs in the coming months. Furthermore, Qualcomm will not be alone, according to Arm’s chief executive. “For the PC industry to grow, particularly the Windows on Arm segment, is going to be a diversification of the supplier base to provide multiple units, multiple SKUs, multiple price points, and multiple experiences for end consumers,” said Rene Haas, chief executive of Arm, in a conference call with financial analysts (viaSeekingAlpha)....