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NVIDIA Reveals New App To Replace GeForce Experience & Control Panel
NVIDIA Control panel is quite an old bit of software, it works but it’s very clunky and slow, but we can look past that because It WORKS. NVIDIA also has GeForce Experience which is ok, but doesn’t offer all the functionality of the control panel. Today NVIDIA has revealed another…
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Maxon Announces Cinebench 2024 With Many Performance Benchmarking Improvements
Cinebench is one of the go-to benchmarks primarily for CPU performance and today developers Maxon have announced the 2024 edition of the popular benchmarking tool. Introduction of Redshift & GPU Benchmarks Cinebench 2024 brings in the power of the Redshift Rendering Engine which unlike its predecessors using Cinema 4D’s standard…
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Windows 11 to Unveil an Integrated Universal ARGB Lighting Controller?
It’s hard to deny that ARGB components within systems have expanded hugely over the last 10 years. Be it hardware or peripheral, it’s hard to find something these days that doesn’t offer some kind of customisable lighting functionality. – The only problem for consumers is that none of these operate…
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MSI Afterburner Developer Says OC Software is Probably Dead!
MSI Afterburner undoubtedly represents one of, if not the, most popular software choices for users looking to apply overclocked settings to their graphics cards. With that being said, however, it hasn’t escaped a lot of the more enthusiast-level users’ attention that, despite its continued wide usage, it hasn’t received any…
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Users Warned of Fake MSI Afterburner Software Which Comes Riddled With Malware
MSI Afterburner undoubtedly represents one of the most popular tools around for general system tweaking, monitoring, and overclocking. In fact, despite the fact that it carries the MSI name, the software is actually quite benign in terms of functionality with other hardware which I daresay is one of the key…
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Intel Sweetens Raptor Lake CPUs & Arc GPUs With Huge Software/Gaming Bundles!
While we daresay that Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake series of desktop processors will be a popular (or at least highly anticipated) choice for many consumers, it’s hard to say the same about their Arc graphics cards. Yes, admittedly, in regards to CPUs it’s going to be interesting to see where…
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Epson Receives Renewed Criticism Over End-of-Life Bricking Firmware!
Printers are probably the most detested piece of computer-related technology around. They never seem happy and perpetually complain over having to do the simplest of tasks (a bit like a teenager I guess). Epson products, however, are perhaps more uniquely loathed because of a rather terse piece of coding within…
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AMD Accidentally Posts A Potential Rival to Nvidia RTX Voice
Following the launch of the Nvidia 20XX series of graphics cards back in 2018, many of you may recall the subsequent introduction of RTX Voice. Primarily touting itself as ‘noise cancellation’ feature, which has since sort of amalgamated into a larger piece of umbrella software, the key feature of it…
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Denuvo Prepares New DRM Technology Specifically for DLC Piracy
Denuvo is probably one of the most controversial pieces of software around when it comes to PC games. – For those of you unaware, it effectively represents a DRM-based anti-piracy measure that looks (often without much success) to prevent games from being cracked and distributed for free. To date, however,…
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Adobe to Launch a Free to Use Browser Version of Photoshop
I feel I should start this one by openly admitting that as much as I’m fully aware that Photoshop is capable of producing image editing miracles, it’s a piece of software I have never truly gotten to grips with. – As much as Microsoft may show increasing hatred towards it,…
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Russia May Be Changing Laws to Legalise Software Piracy!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, in terms of the tech world the news has been pretty much dominated with companies effectively announcing that they were either suspending support or hardware supplies to the country until, basically, the war comes to a peaceful end. I’d list off the…
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New Software May Unlock LHR Restrictions on All Nvidia 30XX/Ampere GPUs
One of the key features of the Nvidia 30XX series (since their early 2021 revision for some models at least) was the inclusion of their LHR (lite hash rate) technology. What is it? Well, in a nutshell, it was designed to restrict the cryptocurrency mining performance of the GPU by…
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Nvidia Releases Broadcast 1.3 Update Bringing Lots of Improvements!
NVIDIA’s tool to enhance both live streaming and video conferencing just got even better. The Broadcast app has transformed the homes, apartments, and dorm rooms of millions of content creators, remote students, and workers into home studios through the power of AI. All without the need to purchase specialized equipment.…
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Hackers Find Way of Hiding Viruses in GPU Memory
Generally speaking, as long as the user isn’t too irresponsible (downloading more RAM, etc.), anti-virus programs are pretty decent at detecting any potential malware or virus’ lurking on systems. In terms of how they work, however, there is one area of memory that is largely ignored by the vast majority…
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Microsoft Confirms $13.6M Paid to Bug Bounty Hunters
For several years now, Microsoft has run one of the arguably most lucrative bug bounty hunting programs in the tech world. Put simply, if you know your way around code and think you’ve found a vulnerability within any program or software they’ve created, Microsoft will pay you to tell them…
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