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Yesterday, Nvidia’sRTX 50-serieslineup finally hit shelves—at least the few hundred Nvidia produced. Sincealmost no onehas been able to get their hands on a Blackwell GPU,Neweggreports that its RTX 50 inventory sold out in just 20 minutes. You’d be lucky to see a single listing, as it didn’t take five minutes for most of the stock to be wiped out. Our reviews of theRTX 5090andRTX 5080left much to be desired from these GPUs....

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AtCES2024, AI is everywhere, including inside monitors. At its demo suite, MSI showed off the upcoming MEG 321URX QD-OLED display. The monitor has an onboard AI accelerator that, among other things, will detect enemies inLeague of Legendsand put an icon on the screen to show you where they are coming from. I don’t know enough aboutLeague of Legendsto say whether this officially breaks the rules. But the feature, which MSI calls SkySight, does give the user an advantage that not everyone has, and it’s completely undetectable because the AI processing and image generation is happening on the monitor’s own hardware, independent of the computer’s OS and software....

Amazon(viaVideoCardz) has listed the upcoming MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld for$899with specifications, including the CPU and RAM options. This will be the first gaming handheld to feature Intel Lunar Lake CPUs. MSI will also release the refresh MSI Claw 7 AI+ with an earlier shipping date. The listing confirms that the Claw 8 AI+ will use the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor, and another sourceconfirmsit will have a variant with the Intel Core Ultra 7 256V....

Meanwhile, you might have encountered video playing issues strangely out of now where on your PC, Mobile, and streaming media players. This generally happens because of Netflix server glitches or outdated Netflix app. Therefore, in this article, we will guide you through the types of errors you might encounter along with their fixes. Why Won’t Netflix Play? Usually, Netflix won’t play videos due to a weak internet connection. Your video might stop loading or not play at all....

A Chinese state report assessing CPU reliability andsecurityhas revealed the HiSilicon Kirin X90, a never-before-seen SoC (viaJukanlosreveon X). For context, HiSilicon serves as Huawei’s wholly-owned chip subsidiary. The juxtaposition of this SoC with other server processors positions it as the successor of the aging Kunpeng 920 design that launched back in 2019. To clarify, the report does not disclose important details such as the process technology, specifications, or intended use case....

Oracle on Wednesdayintroducednew types of clusters set to be available for AI training through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The most powerful cluster will be based on Nvidia’s upcoming onBlackwell GPUsand will offer up to 2.4 ZettaFLOPS of AI performance, making it even more powerful thanElon Musk’s recently announced AI clusters.Oracle’s new supercomputer clusters can be configured with Nvidia’s Hopper or Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC as well as different networking gear, including ultra-low latency RoCEv2 with ConnectX-7 NICs and ConnectX-8 SuperNICs or Nvidia’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand-based networks, and a choice of HPC storage, depending on performance needs:...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is well-known for giving his keynotes wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket. He hasn’t addressed why he chose his (now iconic) black leather jacket specifically (considering other tech CEOs are known for hoodies and black turtlenecks, it’s a pretty good choice), but he mentionedin an interview with HP last yearthat his wife and daughter are responsible for his current style. So we weren’t terribly surprised to see Jensen in yet another black leather motorcycle jacket for the2024 GTC keynote....

Nvidia’s Image Comparison Analysis Tool(ICAT) has been around for a while, but Nvidia recently decided to release an official guide to the tool, generating new interest. The tool itself is actually quite simple to use, which the official video (embedded below) effectively demonstrates, and allows you to export your image or video to make comparisons with relative ease. This can help you tune your game settings for the best blend of performance and image fidelity....

Nvidia has allegedly delayed the introduction of its upcoming SOCAMM technology with an upcoming BlackwellenterpriseGPU.ZDNetreports that SOCAMM is now scheduled to arrive with next-generation Nvidia GPUs codenamed “Rubin”. SOCAMM was originally supposed to debut with theGB300, an upcomingBlackwell Ultraproduct aimed at workstations rather than servers. GB300 is a smaller counterpart to theGB200that squeezes a Blackwell datacenter GPU and Grace CPU into a motherboard package suitable for OEM desktop/workation duties. Allegedly, part of the reason Nvidia delayed SOCAMM was a change in GB300’s motherboard design....

Budget-minded gamers rarely want to spend more than $200 on a graphics card, making this price bracket important for the sheer number of GPUs that get sold. Neither AMD nor Nvidia has released a new card for this market in the past couple of years, so there are limited options and few would make our list of thebest graphics cards. Two GPUs that hit the desired budget price point are theRTX 3050andRX 6600, and today we’re putting them against each other for a GPU faceoff battle....

A criticalsecurityvulnerability has been discovered affecting many YubiKey two-factor authentication devices, breaking their security with no patch in sight. Yubico’ssecurity advisoryconfirmed that Yubikey 5 and Security Key Series prior to firmware 5.7 are forever vulnerable to a high-level cloning attack. However, the average user should not worry too much about the vulnerability. Yubikey 5 series, YubiHSM 2, and other two-factor authentication products by Yubico and other vendors utilizing the Infineon SLB96xx series TPM chip are vulnerable to the newly found attack....

Intel’s Arrow Lake has tremendous memory overclocking potential — as I’ll outline below. I was able to set the world memory overclocking frequency record at an insane DDR5-12666 — and some dead-simple tuning tips can help improve performance even for regular builds. However, the new chip design presents plenty of challenges for both standard and professional overclockers alike. Below, I’ll cover the most important learnings on boosting performance with standard cooling and with the more extreme liquid nitrogen....