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ASRock’s new DeskMate X600 Mini PC, for sale at Chinese retailerJD.com[h/t ITHome.com], rounds out the existingASRock Mini PClineup. It also comes with some interesting if questionable design decisions. We’ll dive into that in a little bit, but the barebones kit includes just the case and a CPU cooler, starting at roughly $193 USD. A fully-specced version with a Ryzen 7 8700G will cost around $635 USD. ASRock DeskMate X600 Mini PC core specifications With the basics of the ASRock DeskMate X600 established, let’s focus on that top-mounted PCIe slot....

Serene Industrieshas finally pulled the veil off its long-anticipated Icebreaker keyboard, featuring a 65% design with the main chassis and keycaps constructed entirely from Aluminium. The main body is CNC-machined using a solid block of 6061 Aluminium, shaped in a rather unconventional wedge design. Now available at their online store, the Icebreaker will set you back $1,600, but most of this cost is due to the intricate design process and aesthetics....

AMD’s latest RX 9060 XT GPUs continue the saga of bifurcating mainstream options into different memory configurations for market segmentation. According to AMD’sFrank Azor, the 8GB flavor of the RX 9060 XT is designed to cater to the needs of the majority of gamers, who play at 1080p. Gamers and developers have long bemoaned constrained memory capacities with modern GPUs. Even at 1080p, many demanding AAA titles can overwhelm 8GB GPUs, as confirmed byprofessional testingwith cards like theRTX 5060 Ti 8GB....

The world of custom console (re)building is brimming with makeshift handheld and “Mini” versions of classic or current consoles — recently, the custom Nintendo Wii scene saw the introduction of another contender for “smallest Nintendo Wii.” TheShort Stack, posted on GitHub with recreation instructions by James Smith aka “loopj”, is a fully-functioning Nintendo Wii trimmed and stripped down to the size of a deck of playing cards with the use of custom PCBs and3D printing....

Five years ago, outspoken Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan made a promise to his fans: The company, which makes gaming gear, laptops, bags, and chairs, would make a toaster — which the community was clamoring for. In 2013, Australian streamer Mark Withers started a Facebook page called “Give us the Razer Toaster,” with the idea that it would be funny (and cool) to have an appliance put the Razer logo on bread....

If you ever wonder what makes a computer recognize a USB device you connect, it’s because of a device descriptor feature. So, when you get an error message on the device manager saying, “UnknownUSB (Device Descriptor Request Failed),” it means that the computer has issues detecting a USB device’s basic information. So when this happens, the computer fails to connect with the device you just inserted. What Is A Device Descriptor?...

Before Cyber Monday, the Phillips Evnia 34M2C8600 has gone on sale for 29% off, costing just$569.99instead of its original $799.99 MSRP. This monitor, released mid-2023, is a 34-inch 175 Hz OLED 21:9 Ultrawide monitor with support for DisplayHDR True Black 400, a curved screen, and a resolution of 3440 x 1440 (WQHD). This is a genuinely feature-rich monitor, and our original review rated it 4.5/5 stars, even at its original pricing....

you’re able to get the “NVIDIA Installer cannot continue” error message while trying to run the.exeinstaller. You may also get a similar error while installing the driver from GeForce Engine. It also comes with different additional messages that indicate the exact nature of the error. The first two solutions below correspond to the initial two error messages in the list above. If you have any other errors, it’s best toskip straight to the third solution....

Researchers in Uruguay have uncovered a way forhackers to use AI to snoopon what’s shown on your display by intercepting leaked electromagnetic radiation from the cable between your computer and monitor. They say such attacks are probably already happening, but home PC users don’t have much to worry about. The attacks can be done through multiple methods, including by using antennas placed outside a building to intercept signals from HDMI cables....

Amazonhas revealed that the company has just deployed its one millionth robot in its operations. The milestone droid was deployed to a fulfilment center in Japan. In apress release, the company also revealed it has a new generative AI foundation model that will help improve robot fleet travel efficiency by 10%, supporting faster delivery times and reducing costs for consumers. Crucially,WSJreports that Amazon is now on the brink of having more robots in its warehouses than humans....

AMD’s bleeding-edgeInstinct MI300Adata center APU has been tested in Geekbench 6.3.0. Discovered byBenchLeakson X, the pair of MI33A APUs performed seemingly worse than aCore i5-14600Kacross three runs. The APU showed up as “AMD Proto Sample: SH5-MI300A-A0,” somewhat implying that it could be a prototype sample. According to the submissions, the MI300A was tested on a platform called “AMD Corporation Eviden2p,” consisting of a dual-socket design. Therefore, the system had 48 cores and 96 threads, as each MI300A wields 24 Zen 4 execution cores....

AMD is swinging back at Nvidia with new DeepSeekbenchmarksthat claim its monster 48GB RDNA 3 GPUs can outperform Team Green’s previous-generation RTX 4090.David McAfee, AMD vice president and general manager of Ryzen CPUs and Radeon graphics,posted on Xthat theRadeon Pro W7900and Pro W7800 48GB cards can outperform an RTX 4090 by up to 7.3x inDeepSeek R1. McAfee shared a graph of the three GPUs benchmarked in several iterations of DeepSeek R1 using LM Studio 0....

NBD shipping manifests for AMD’s Zen 5 Threadripper CPUs, codenamed “Shimada Peak” and most likely corresponding to a Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, have been spotted as of the earliest hours of this morning/latest hours of last night. NBD is a shipping manifest platform well-known for providing information like this, and this time around, Twitter userOlrak29_is the one who initially spotted the Shimada Peak shipping manifests, which include some limited specifications....