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Apple Launches New Mac Mini Systems Featuring their Latest M2 Processors
Apple has officially unveiled the new Mac mini, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, the Mac mini is even more powerful, capable, and affordable. The new M2 Pro chip delivers pro-level performance to Mac mini for the first time, enabling users to run high-performance…
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ASUS Launch its New Vivobook S 16 Flip OLED
ASUS has announced the launch of its new Vivobook S 16 Flip OLED (TP3604), a convertible 16-inch laptop that’s just 19.6 mm slim and 1.9 kg light. It’s designed to give users the 360° of freedom they need to explore all the possibilities. Available in stylish Midnight Black or Cool…
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Redditor Buys Broken AMD 5900X (Bent Pins) for Just $3 and Actually Fixes It!
In representing one of the more potentially aggravating aspects of the PGA socket design, anyone with any extensive experience with AMD’s Ryzen 1000-5000 platform has likely encountered bent pins at some point. And yes, this happened to me, despite all my experience, when I once removed a cooler that, for…
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AMD A620 Motherboards May Finally Be Coming to Save Ryzen 7000!
While the AMD Ryzen 7000 series of processors have certainly impressed (most) consumers in regard to their performance, it’s not exactly a secret that this has not been matched with big retail sales figures. Put simply, the Ryzen 7000 series isn’t selling very well. And it’s nothing to do with…
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Benchmarks State the Intel i9-13900KF as the King of Raptor Lake Overclocking!
Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve not overclocked a CPU for probably well over 5 years now because I don’t really see the overall benefit of higher temperatures…
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Intel Finally Unveils its Core i9-13900KS Flagship for $700
With Intel kicking off CES 2023 by announcing (pretty much) the remaining (predominantly non-K) variants from its 13th-gen Raptor Lake series of processors, it did lead to some speculation as to whether the long-rumoured i9-13900KS would be making an appearance or not. – Of source, all the speculation and rumour…
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AMD (For Reasons Unclear) Scraps Ryzen 7000X3D Feb 14th Release Date!
As part of an update to their official website earlier this week, AMD seemingly confirmed that their brand new and highly-anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D processors were set for a general consumer release on February 14th. – With this falling pretty much in line with what was revealed at their launch event…
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Intel Bizarrely Raises the MSRP of its 12th-Gen Alder Lake Processors!
Given the release of Intel’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake processors, you’d have likely been forgiven for thinking that the cost of their 12th-gen Alder Lake series was now probably set to start dropping, even if only slightly, over the coming months. – That is, after all, typically what tends to happen…
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AMD and Intel Unveil NEW processors!
Hey everyone. As you’ve noticed, unlike the many years before, CES is back on and for once, we’re not there. We decided firmly against it in favour of covering everything from our studio in a much more relaxed manner, though that doesn’t mean there isn’t much to talk about. In…
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Intel i9-13900KS is Now Expected to Be Announced Next Week!
Earlier this week Intel formally confirmed the upcoming launch of pretty much the vast majority of its remaining SKUs from its Raptor Lake processor line-up. With this being said, however, one model was notably absent from the announcement. Namely, the highly-anticipated i9-13900KS. Featuring a 6 GHz pre-binned clock speed right…
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AMD Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs to Arrive Next Month – CES 2023
As part of their official CES 2023 showcase, AMD was exceptionally busy with their announcements. In fact, you could potentially argue that between Nvidia, Intel, and themselves, Team Red probably had the most eye-catching event in terms of product launches. So, with this in mind, what did they announce? Well,…
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Ryzen 7000 Accounted for Just 15% of AMD’s Processor Sales in December!
I’d say that it was widely speculated that the initial sales for Ryzen 7000 processors were somewhat lacklustre following their release last September. The truth though is that given that AMD themselves have confirmed that sales are well below expectations, the Ryzen 7000 platform has clearly gotten off to an…
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Steam Hardware Survey Shows Big Gains For Intel & Windows 11
December is, typically speaking, a fairly quiet month in the tech world with most of the major announcements and product launches typically happening, well… Now! – Yes, CES 2023 is very nearly upon us and although we daresay the Steam Hardware Survey landscape might change hugely over the coming month,…
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Intel Leak Reveals Upcoming Raptor Lake Processor Launches!
Following the initial launch of Intel’s ‘K’ series of Raptor Lake processors late last year, there were clearly many more models from the SKU set to be launched at a later date. With it being pretty much known that this would happen during (or slightly before) CES 2023, however, it…
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Mikes Rant Christmas Edition – The Happy New Year Ranty Round-Up!
Welp, Christmas is over and we’re officially into 2023. – And presuming nobody has told you this yet… HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!!! Feeling optimistic about it? Well, if not, then you should because CES 2023 is only days away and we’re expecting some huge announcements from Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and…
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