Author: [email protected] (Alan Dexter)
-
Intel really just asked the EU for $624M to pay it back for overturned anti-AMD fine
[ad_1] Intel is seeking to be paid interest of €593 million on the overturned €1.05 billion fine (opens in new tab) it received from the European Commission back in 2009. The antitrust ruling was overturned at the beginning of the year, and so Intel has gone to EU General Court seeking compensation and interest on…
-
Modder builds the world’s first PS5 slim
[ad_1] We’ve featured DIY Perks’ incredible builds before, including a huge TV that was bright enough to use outside (opens in new tab). Matt’s latest build is something a bit closer to home though: he’s taken a Sony PlayStation 5 (opens in new tab) and made his own slim version of it. Obviously, it’s nothing…
-
Gigabyte Aorus 17 XE4 gaming laptop review
[ad_1] This has been quite a year for gaming laptops (opens in new tab). AMD launched its Ryzen 6000-series mobile CPUs, Intel unleashed Alder Lake for the same market, and Nvidia has added to the existing mobile GPU line-up with the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti. Given things were already pretty healthy in…
-
It’s now ‘more cost-effective to turn off the mining rig and buy Ethereum’
[ad_1] In case you haven’t noticed, all is not well in crypto land. Bitcoin is the lowest it’s been in two years (opens in new tab), and continues to drop. The CEO of Coinbase has warned of a crypto winter and laid off 1,100 staff (opens in new tab). The latest news is that the…
-
AMD has promising plans for laptops in the next two years
[ad_1] AMD has unveiled plans for the next two years across its processor and graphics card lines at its Financial Analyst Day 2022 (opens in new tab). This event is aimed at investors and analysts, and as such, it’s heavy on promises and a little light on the actual details. Still, there are some new…
-
Seasonic’s wattage calculator sees no power increase for AMD’s 7000-series GPUs
[ad_1] PSU manufacturer, Seasonic, has updated its wattage calculator to cover AMD’s as-yet-unreleased Radeon RX 7000 GPUs. That in itself isn’t too interesting, as we know they’re coming, even if the details around them are a little lacking. At least officially. What is interesting is that they don’t appear to demand any more wattage than…
-
Best NVMe SSD in 2022
[ad_1] The best NVMe SSD speeds up your gaming PC. It might not seem like a big deal, but having a fast and reliable NVMe SSD makes everything easier, from booting your PC to loading massive open world games. NVMe SSDs make hard drives look like ancient tech. Outside of a new GPU, a NVMe…
-
AMD’s budget laptop chip might not be game-ready on its own
[ad_1] AMD announced its Mendocino program during its Computex 2022 keynote (opens in new tab). By the end of it, we were hoping for a new kind of budget laptop. A budget laptop that could actually game. Boasting a Zen 2 APU with 4-cores and 8-threads alongside an RDNA 2-based iGPU we couldn’t help but…
-
Save over £300 on this RTX 3060 MSI gaming laptop
[ad_1] Good gaming laptops can be tricky to track down, particularly if you’re looking to spend a modest amount of cash as opposed to the sort of money that would buy you a whole desktop PC. This MSI Katan GF66 would normally set you back a healthy £1,199, but right now you can enjoy a…
-
Ignore the presets in Dying Light 2: everyone should turn on DX12 for a frame rate boost
[ad_1] Dying Light 2 is a pretty game. It’s a pretty demanding one too. And it’s a game where every frame counts, particularly when you’re careering across rooftops—a dropped frame or two can mean missing a jump and ending up being swarmed by the undead. So anything you can do to keep your framerate up,…