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Asus has issued a statement after reports claimed that the recently launchedQ-Release Slim release mechanism for graphics cardscould scrape off the sides of the PCIe connector. The company advises users to follow the official removal guidelines and claims that the mechanism does not damage graphics cards unless they are removed and installed frequently. However, Asus’s wording implies that it is aware that in some cases sides of the PCIe connector can be scraped....

If you’re rocking an older PC system and looking for an economical upgrade, perhaps to the latest AM5 system, then today’s deal can help. At just $124, this motherboard from Asus is firmly positioned on the budget end of the scale when it comes to current motherboard prices. But don’t let the budget terminology put you off, as this mobo still has all the main features you would need - primarily the CPU socket - but also the necessary DDR5 RAM, PCIe 5....

Asus’s Zenbook line of laptops have always been known for being light on weight and heavy on premium features, but the latest member of the family is svelte to the extreme. The new Zenbook A14 – the A is for “air” – sports a starting weight of just 2.18 pounds (989g) while packing in a whopping, 70 Whr battery that promises up to 32 hours of endurance. The 14-inch laptop will feature a 1920 x 1200 OLED screen that promises to reproduce a full 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut....

German PC component manufacturerbe quiet!brought anew glass caseseries and updated its Light Wings illuminated case fans toComputex 2024. The latest cases are highly configurable “fish tank” designs that are usable in three orientations for showcasing your PC just the way you want. Be quiet! introduced the Light Base 600 and Light Base 900 cases. These include fully windowed front and side panels allowing a gorgeous panoramic view of your gaming rig’s components, with the power supply, storage drive, and cables neatly hidden away in a separate chamber....

Your Wi-Fi router is at the heart of your daily computing experience. you may have the best CPU and the best graphics card on the market, but most workloads, from gaming to productivity, use an internet connection. So, if your router is less than ideal, you will leave real-world performance and usability on the table for any device not connected via Ethernet. Even if your internet connection is 300 Mbps and your router claims to be capable of 1,200 Mbps, you may not get full speed....

You bookmarked all the important links and intended to visit them later. But now you open Chrome and see that the bookmarks are missing. Well, it could be a simple problem of you looking for them on different folders or browser profiles. Before going deeper, you can resolve the issue by confirming that you have searched them in the correct location. After that, even if you deleted the bookmarks accidentally or had issues with the Chrome browser itself, you can recover your precious bookmarks with the help of the fixes listed in this article....

Windows mounts its drives or partitions as drive letters which you can easily find inside File Explorer or This PC. So, whenever you open This PC, you’ll find the local or removable drives with the letter C, D, and so on. These drives also come with the default label (Local Disk, USB Drive, etc.) or a custom label you specified while creating or renaming the drive. And the C Drive also has a unique icon as compared to other local disks, as it also contains the Windows logo....

Although China-based CXMT is reportedlymass producing HBM2 memory, Chinese high-tech giants like Baidu, Huawei, and Tencent are stockpiling high-bandwidth memory from Samsung as they expect the new U.S. export rules to restrict sales of HBM to Chinese entities, reportsReuters. Both Baidu and Huawei need HBM2E memory for their AI processors. Now that it has become increasingly complex for Baidu and Huawei to obtain advanced AI processors, such as Nvidia’s H100 or Intel’s Gaudi, both companies have to rely on their own AI processors allegedly made by SMIC....

When we insert a 3.5mm audio jack on the computer, by default, the computer sends all the audio data from the 3.5mm port to the headphone. So, if there is an issue with either the headphone itself or the audio driver, we will not get any output from the headphone. However, in this article, we have listed a few solutions to help you fix the issue you have with the audio output device....

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.Find out more about how we test. Corsair MP700 Elite 2TB Performance Results Comparison Products The Corsair MP700 Elite is one of the first retail drives based on theE31T controller, although we have the Addlink G55 waiting in the wings. (Spoiler alert: It’s effectively the same performance, just without the Corsair brand name....

A team of researchers led by Abigail Mann at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia have developed storage tech that beats binary by being 4x denser. They used a new technique to store data on a polymer film by creating nanoscale indentations with a fine-tip probe that uses an atomic force microscope for movement. According toNew Atlas, this technique is similar to how the Mesopotamians stored data on cuneiform tablets, but instead of using reeds and clay tablets, the team used a compound called dicyclopentadiene and sulfur to build the inexpensive polymer film....

There’s a new tool available for folk who want to disableWindows Defenderwithout replacing it with a rival antivirus (AV) product. Developer and reverse engineer es3n1n released the newDefendnot toolrecently. The software taps into an undocumented WindowsSecurityCenter (WSC) API to tell the OS there’s some other antivirus software turned on, thus gracefully giving Windows Defender the elbow. In a blog post discussingDefendnot development, es3n1n introduces the new tool by highlighting how it is a replacement for theirno-defender toolfrom a year ago....

China-based researchers have been able to bypass U.S. sanctions on GPU exports to China, as made evident by the existence of several recent research papers using the H100, pera report from the Telegraph. This is despite the fact that the H100 hasn’t been legal to export to China since 2022, indicating that export controls aren’t ironclad. However, the quantities involved in these research papers indicate that China isn’t getting very many H100s at the moment....