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Tom’s Hardware Verdict The ROG Strix Scar 16 is just a driver update (or two) away from greatness. Brilliant display Second M.2 SSD slot with PCIe 5.0 support Tool-free access to hardware components Strong game performance Some game compatibility issues with RTX 5080 Expensive 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....

Graviton processors fromAmazonWeb Services can only be accessed in the cloud, butPhoronixmanaged to benchmark the latest Graviton4 and compare it to rivals from AMD and Intel. As it turns out, theAWS Graviton4chip offers massive generation-to-generation improvements over its predecessor and can beat AMD’s EPYC ‘Genoa’ and Intel Xeon ‘Sapphire Rapids’ in a variety of benchmarks. Amazon’s Graviton4 packs 96 Arm Neoverse V2 cores with 2MB of L2 cache per core and features 12 channels for DDR5-5600 memory, making it a very powerful CPU for a variety of workloads....

We gave the Bambu Lab A1 an Editor’s Choice award when we reviewed it in 2023, and now this great printer has a healthy discount for Amazon Prime Day.Right now, you can get one for $60 off direct from Bambu, now $339 instead of $399. This is a great 3D printer to introduce the world of 3D printing to a new user. Why? Because it is so easy to assemble and use....

Battlefield 2042is still receiving updates as EA gives its full attention to “Battlefield 6” development.Update 8.8.0introduces a new Secure Boot requirement, forcingBattlefield 2042gamers to have Secure Boot to play the game. This change was made to help combat cheaters inBattlefield 2042. The game’s patch notes reveal that Secure Boot enforcement will help counter cheats that “try to sneak in during the Windows boot process.” Apparently, this is a new method cheaters are using to bypass anti-cheat systems; further up in the patch notes, the devs state: “As cheat developers keep evolving their tactics, we’re stepping up our game, too....

PassMark Software seems unimpressed by the number ofCopilot+ PCtests that it has seen in the wild since the new platform launched. In a Twitter/X post, the long-establishedbenchmarkingcompany shared that over the last 30 days, it has seen 22,000 Windows x86 machines put through its CPU test suite, yet only 56 Windows-on-Arm machines have been benchmarked. Thus, only 0.3% of recently tested machines were powered bySnapdragon XCPUs. According to the data gathered by PassMark, “there’s a long road ahead” for Copilot+ PCs and Qualcomm due to the deficient representation of these Arm architecture PCs being tested by end users....

Open-ended goals, grounded mechanics, and work/pleasure activities are essential. It’s perhaps what you’re looking for in the best games like Second Life. There was already an online “metaverse” years before Facebook changed its name. In other words, an online platform, a virtual world for virtual life. Are you eager to escape to virtual life and do things differently than your physical self? Then we’re counting the best games like Second Life, some VR games, while others are not....

1.Best For Most2.Best Budget3.Best For Audiophiles4.Other Headsets Tested5.How We Test6.Shopping Tips Gaming headsets are just as important as other gaming peripherals: The sounds of your virtual world and how you communicate with your teammates hinge on the device you wear on your head. (Well, unless you’re listening through some of thebest PC speakers.) And you’ll likely be using your gaming headset to take work calls, stream shows, and listen to music, too....

According toReuters, Intel’s ambitions to become the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker by 2030 seem to have encountered a major hurdle after Broadcom’s trial runs using Intel’s 18A fabrication technology did not purportedly meet expectations. This setback adds pressure to Intel’s revival plan and a goal to leave TSMC behind in manufacturing process advancements, but the situation is not that dramatic. To test Intel’s 18A (1.8nm-class) process technology, Broadcom produced wafers with test patterns typical of the products it designs....

Broadcom has demonstrated that it is perhaps the world’s largest processor. But for what application? When we visited TSMC’s events, we were always shown a deck of multi-chiplet processors that use the company’s chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology and feature near the reticle limit (858mm^2, 26 mm by 33 mm) compute chiplets. We cannot take photos of the deck, but there are certainly processors that grab attention. One of those devices comes from Broadcom, and it has been shown at the company’s recent investor events....

Driver signatures verify the integrity of the driver software and their developers. Windows enforces the verification of driver signatures before installing or loading them as a security measure. While this enforcement does protect your system against malicious threats, you may have to disable it in two situations. First– if you need toinstall a driver without a valid driver signature, and second– as a temporary fix forspecific Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) loops....

Whether it’s a JPG or PNG image file, Windows’ default image opener app, Microsoft Photos, supports both of them. However, there are times when you can neither preview nor open the image. Sometimes it’s the app causing the issue, while other times problem lies in the image. To resolve the issue, you can either try torepair the Photos appor fix issues with the image. Nonetheless, we have compiled a list of applicable solutions that can fix both issues....

Next Computing hasunveiled two edge computing “fly-away kits"powered by high-core countAmpere Altraprocessors. These servers cater to Packet Capture, Telco Edge, and Open-RAN applications (to name a few), all of which require high-performance servers that can be easily transported to different locations quickly. The two “fly-away-kits” Next Computing has unveiled are the NextServer-X 1U and 2U. As their names suggest, the 1U can hold up to two 1U server chassis, while the 2U can hold a single 2U rack mount chassis....

One of Nvidia’s advantages in the data center space is that it not only offers leading-edge GPUs for AI and HPC computing but can also effectively scale the number of its processors across a data center using its own hardware and software. How could you defeat Nvidia if your GPUs are slower and your software stack is not as pervasive as Nvidia’s CUDA? Well, expand your own scale-out capabilities. This is exactly whatChinese GPU maker Moores Threadshas done, based on aScience China Morning Postreport....