Author: Chris Szewczyk
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HP spends big to secure title sponsorship rights for the Ferrari Formula One team
It’s been a pretty big 24 hours in the world of Formula One. On top of rumors that Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey could be leaving the team for unknown pastures comes the news that Ferrari has named HP as its title sponsor for the next several years. That means the red team is…
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DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec
The march towards DDR5-10000 continues. Although overclockers have already well and truly passed that mark, those kinds of speeds are all but out of reach without extreme cooling and you have the combination of top quality memory and a CPU with an equally good memory controller. JEDEC is the body that defines and maintains the…
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Fake Samsung 1080 Pro SSDs show up on Aliexpress, and the benchmark results are hilarious
PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are now widely available. There are numerous examples of speedy Gen 5 x4 drives including Teamgroup Z540 And Nextorage X Series. But one of the names missing the Gen 5 x4 wave is Samsung. We’re yet to see a true replacement for the Samsung 990 Pro. Or have we? The answer…
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The ultimate bloatware removal tool now works on any version of Windows 11
For the most part, Windows 11 isn’t a bad operating system, even if its adoption rate is slower than Microsoft would like. Its system demands means it requires a relatively beefy system to run, and it comes with more than its fair share of bloatware crap. Thanks to the release of a new version of…
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Windows 10 users are soon to be hit with nagging prompts asking them to create an online account
Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, Windows 10 remains popular across the world. Even though Windows 11 has been around for years and received swathes of updates, many users stubbornly hold onto the older OS. The reasons are varied. Apart from the old ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ adage, reasons not to upgrade include Windows…
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Galax’s single-slot RTX 4060 Ti is out in the wild, though sadly it appears to be a little tempestuous
There are those of us out there who simply adore small form factor PCs, especially those that can cram a decent level of performance into something the size of a shoebox. These days, it’s pretty hard to get around the TDP requirements of a high-end graphics card, though. I’d hoped the single slot Galax RTX…
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Teamgroup Z540 2TB NVMe SSD review
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Everyone loves a fast Gen 5 SSD, just not the prices that are attached to them. They still carry too much of a price premium over Gen 4 drives. But, as supply ramps up, the gap is slowly beginning to close. The key word there is slowly. At $269, the Teamgroup Z540 2TB PCIe Gen…
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Arm laptops are almost ready for prime time, and some new benchmarks with a Snapdragon X processor will have Intel, AMD and even Apple worried
2024 is shaping up to be the year that Windows laptops with Arm processors mount a serious challenge to the dominance of the Intel and AMD x86 duopoly. We’ve been hearing about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X for sometime, and now the first devices are being unveiled, with more to follow at what’s shaping up to be…
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Acer’s curvy Predator Z57 dual UHD MiniLED 57-inch monitor hits retail for $1,999
The market for super ultrawide monitors just got a bit more interesting, as Acer is preparing to release its colossal Predator Z57 gaming monitor for a hefty, but not all that unreasonable $1,999 at its online store in the US. The Acer Predator Z57 ticks a lot of boxes. It’s a 57-inch 32:9 DUHD offering,…
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Desktop ATX motherboards with SO-DIMM memory slots? It’s not as silly as it sounds.
Sometimes, engineers have some free time on their hands. There are many examples of ‘skunkworks’ projects, including an Asus RTX 4060 Ti with an onboard SSD slot, motherboards with rear-side connectors, and going back a little further, an ASRock X299 HEDT ITX motherboard, to name just a few memorable examples. The latter board included SO-DIMM…