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Sometimes, you can encounter the “There is a problem with this Windows Installer package” error while trying to install an application through an MSI installer. This error occurs if your system can’t run a script, program, or DLL file necessary for such operations. You will also encounter corresponding error messages in each case: Even if they are different errors, you need similar solutions to resolve all of them. First, ensure tolog in with an admin accountand run the program as an administrator....

If you’re on the lookout for a gaming/productivity laptop deal this Black Friday season, this is one of the best deals I’ve seen so far for the price-to-performance ratio. The MSI Katana A15 AI uses an AMD 8000-series processor, has plenty of DDR5 RAM, and a graphics card capable of high-end gaming or video editing. Worth your time to take a look. This is one of the better Black Friday laptop deals spotted so far....

Creating your ownRaspberry Pivoice assistant is a fun way to create the smart home of your dreams. It also allows for a great degree of customization. You can choose how interactive the system is, integrate AI with tools like ChatGPT and even animateholographicfigures to visualize your character. But if you’ve ever wanted to change how your voice assistant sounds, you should check out Erik Bjorgan’s latest project,TextyMcSpeechy. This open-source tool makes it possible to add a custom voice profile to your text-to-speech (TTS) project....

Energy constraints are set to become the IT industry’s next bottleneck, reckons Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In a recent interview, he said he thinks that the long-runningGPU droughtis basically over, and AI growth and development won’t be reined in by capital constraints in the near term. Instead,energy issuesare going to become the next major pinch point. Zuckerberg tells interviewer Dwarkesh Patel that with the GPU drought now over, businesses will be tempted to “invest a lot of money in building out these things,” like data centers....

Amazon Web Services (AWS)is trying to earn a place at the head table of AI computing. In a field mostly dominated by Nvidia, AWS recently suggested its own AI chipsmight cross a critical power thresholdsoon that could make them competitive with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips as the company’s vice president of infrastructure hinted that the Trainium3 AI chips might draw more than 1,000 watts of electricity. It’s important to add a caveat here: AWS VP of Infrastructure Prasad Kalyanaraman has yet to specifically give wattage requirements for the upcoming Trainium3 chip, or even its predecessor Trainium2....

Sales of AMD’s gaming hardware dropped a whopping 59% in the second quarter of 2024 as shipments of its processors forMicrosoft’s Xbox andSony’s PlayStation game consoles declined. Nonetheless, record sales of data center products and massively increased sales of processors for client PCs more than offset declined gaming hardware shipments. AMD’s revenue for the second quarter of 2024 totaled $5.835 billion, up 9% year over year and 7% quarter over quarter....

GuruFocusreports that Nvidia is reportedly considering using Intel Foundry’s manufacturing services for GPUs aimed at gamers. Timothy Arcuri, an analyst with UBS, is quoted as saying that if Intel lands an order from Nvidia, one of the biggest fabless chip designers, this would be a major win and perhaps an inflection point for Intel Foundry. According to the analyst,Broadcom and Nvidia—two AI chip powerhouses—are considering using Intel’s 18A (1.8 nm-class) process technology for their products....

It’s been weeks sinceCopilot+ PCs, the new generation of Windows laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors, hit store shelves. We’ve had several in our office and have been running them through a lot of the same tests we use on typical Intel or AMD-powered laptops, but what we really want to know is how do local AI workloads run on these computers? Unfortunately, we haven’t found a ton of local AI applications we can run on Snapdragon X-powered laptops at this time....

Minecraft sometimes feels overwhelming, and we’ll help you sort through its mechanics. Now, we’re ranking the best bow enchantments in Minecraft. Because there’s a single bow type in the game (plus crossbows), the ranged weapon is underrepresented. They are also harder to use, as you must micro-manage the arrow crafting. But there’s a way to make bows stand on top of your favorite melee weapons. That is by putting Enchantments, some of which are easy to find....

While graphics cards have typically been seen as the most important piece of hardware for gaming, a computer’s processor also heavily weighs into how well games will perform on a gaming PC — especially if one plans to run multiple programs in the background simultaneously, such as video recording or live streaming software. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of thebest CPUs for gaming and streaming, ranging from high-end models to more low-budget options....

The list in brief1.Best Overall2.Best for Speed3.Fastest Booting4.Best Endurance5.Best Low Cost6.Other microSD Cards Tested7.Speed Ratings and Types8.How We Test9.Discounts Unlike many other modern computing devices (including other single board computers such as theKhadas VIM4,LattePanda 3 Delta,LattePanda Sigmaand theOrange Pi 800), mostRaspberry Pishave no internal storage, relying instead on removable microSD cards as their primary boot drives. The exception to this rule are theCompute Module 4,Compute Module 4Sand theCompute Module 5which offerd variants with onboard eMMC storage....

CAMM2is a brand-new memory standard that will debut on laptops and desktops.MSI recently benchmarkedKingston’s DDR5-7200 C38 CAMM2 with CKD on its CAMM2-equipped Z790 Project Zero Plus motherboard to compare its performance against standard DIMMs. The two memory configurations were set at identical timings and frequencies. Both were set at DDR5-7200, and primary timings consisted of CL38-44-44-105 with a command rate of 2. In AIDA64, the CAMM2 test rig achieved a memory read speed of 105....

Remember the awesome-looking — if a bit impractical —shark-shaped PC buildwe saw atCooler Master’sCESsuite last year? You’ll finally be able to grab one of your own this year, starting sometime in Q2 2024, assuming you’ve got the space for a three-foot-tall robotic shark on your desk. The Shark X ships as a fully-built PC and will cost “upwards of $7,000” — which is pretty pricey considering the build we saw wasn’t even fully specced out, but not too surprising considering the much less-fragile lookingSneaker X launched last year at around $6,000....