Author: Chris Szewczyk
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Intel’s Thunderbolt Share is the easiest way yet to link and share data between two PCs
Intel has unveiled its Thunderbolt Share technology, which utilizes the bandwidth on offer from Thunderbolt 4 and 5 ports to share and sync data, and control two PCs with one keyboard and mouse. (Image credit: Intel) It’s not the first way to link two PCs. I’ve used crossover cables in years past, and I recall…
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Intel’s efforts to develop a PCIe throttling driver point towards a very hot Gen 6 future
My biggest gripe with current PCs is excessive power consumption. Second to that is the heat generated by NVMe SSDs. A motherboard with an acre of metal covering half the board, or SSDs cooled by tower heatsinks with tiny fans is just not what I want to see. It’s not like Gen 5 x4 SSDs…
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Move over Blackwell: Nvidia’s next-next gen GPU is reportedly codenamed Rubin, with a debut scheduled for late 2025
Asking specific questions of senior CPU or GPU engineers is an interesting exercise. Other than being far more interesting sources of information than marketing folks, engineers sometimes have to think years in the past for an answer. That’s because that engineer is probably already hard at work on the next-next generation product. Right now, we…
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AMD continues to chip away at Intel’s CPU market dominance, though the laptop market is still a tough market to crack
Intel has long held a commanding market share lead over AMD, but ever since the launch of first generation Ryzen CPU family in 2017, AMD has slowly been chipping away at Intel’s lead. Aside from the disruptions caused by the pandemic, AMD’s server, mobile and desktop sales have been on an upward trajectory for many…
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TikTok files a lawsuit to fight the ‘extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights’ that would result from a nationwide ban
TikTok has announced it plans to sue the US government over a new law that would ban the app nationwide unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, divests itself from the app. According to reporting from the BBC, TikTok called the newly passed act an “extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights” of its 170 million American…
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Corsair to go all in on sim racing after it announces plans acquire Fanatec
Corsair has entered into negotiations to acquire Endor AG, the owners of the sim racing specialist Fanatec. The proposed deal will provide a welcome cash injection into Endor AG, which has been struggling under the weight of a €70 million debt. Should the deal come to fruition, it will mark a major play by Corsair…
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Intel pressures all motherboard manufacturers to implement default power settings by the end of May
The issue of instability with some 13th and 14th Gen CPUs has been bubbling away for some time. It began with reports of game and application crashes, and even reports of BSODs in various forums across the internet. The i9 13900K, i9 14900K and their KS counterparts are far more likely to experience these issues…
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Scammers have resorted to selling CPUs without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered
Scammers are among the lowest forms of life, but they can be crafty. In recent times there’s been an increase in the number of scams that try to rip people off by selling expensive items without the things that make them expensive items. Fake RTX 4090s are just one example. After all, it’s the chip…
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Windows 11 just isn’t enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling
Microsoft must be wringing its hands in frustration as it tries to get users to move on from Windows 10 and embrace the wonders of Windows 11. It seems no matter what it tries, users just stubbornly refuse to move on from that old dinosaur of an OS. According to Statcounter (via Neowin), as of…
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Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change
In my humble opinion, the ATX standard is broken. The PCs we know and love have evolved so much over the last 30 years. Small revisions and additions to the standard aren’t meeting the needs and requirements of a 2024 era PC, to say nothing of the demands of a PC as we move towards—and…