Passively Cooled RTX 3080 PC Comes With A Few Compromises
The NVIDIA RTX 3080 is a 320 W TDP card making it impractical for conventional contained passive cooling solutions. Commercial passively cooled cards such as the GTX 1050 Ti, and GTX 1650 Ti all come in with a TDP of less than 100 W and even then require large heatsinks....
Alleged Apple M1X Processor Specifications Leaked Again
Apple impressed everyone with the launch of their M1 processor last year and it would appear they are preparing to do it again with an upgraded version named the M1X for the 2021 Mac lineup. The Apple M1X will reportedly include an upgraded 12-core CPU consisting of eight Firestorm performance...
Toshiba Announces 18TB MG09 Series Hard Disk Drives
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) announces the 18 TB MG09 Series HDD, Toshiba’s first HDD models with energy-assisted magnetic recording. The MG09 Series features Toshiba’s third-generation, 9-disk helium-sealed design and Toshiba’s innovative Flux Control – Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology, to advance Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) density...
Microsoft Announces FPS Boost Mode for Xbox Series X|S Consoles
Microsoft today has announce,d via its Xbox Division, an update to a starting lineup of five backwards-compatibility games that are being qualified for its FPS Boost mode. This mode is an internal Microsoft solution that requires no work from developers, being a system-level optimization at the Direct3D level that lifts...
ZOTAC Promotes Cryptocurrency Mining Farm via Twitter
ZOTAC’s official Twitter channel has posted an image that promotes the usage of its graphics cards in mining environments. Under the caption “An army of #ZOTACGAMING GPU’s hungry for coin!”, the company posted an image of a cryptocurrency mining farm populated with its graphics cards. The usage of a gaming...
Manufacturing: Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-wide Power Shortages
News just keep flowing that are bound to have impact on pricing for components users of this website know and love. The Austin-American Statesman reports that Samsung has been ordered to shutter its Texas factories in wake of recent power shortages that have impacted the state. The order, which came...
NVIDIA GPUs Have Hotspot Temperature Sensors Like AMD
NVIDIA GeForce GPUs feature hotspot temperature measurement akin to AMD Radeon ones, according to an investigative report by Igor’s Lab. A beta version of HWInfo already supports hotspot measurement. As its name suggests, the hotspot is the hottest spot on the GPU, measured from a network of thermal sensors across...
Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC Pictured: Lugs a 360mm AIO
Here are some of the first pictures of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC, the company’s flagship RX 6900 XT product, until it decides to revive even the “Atomic” brand. This features a hybrid liquid+air cooling solution not unlike the ASUS ROG Strix RX 6900 XT LC. An...
NVIDIA Seemingly Begins Resupplying GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPUs
In a move that speaks loads towards the current state of the semiconductor market, NVIDIA has apparently begun reseeding retailers with 5-year-old Pascal-based GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards. In some retailers (namely, Newegg), the card can still be found at $499, a vestige of tight supply since its discontinuation, and...
Epic Games Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
Epic Games today announced it has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in the European Union (EU), expanding the company’s fight to advance fairer digital platform practices for developers and consumers. The complaint, filed with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, alleges that through a series of carefully designed anti-competitive...