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Is AMD Stock a Buy After Nvidia's Q2 Earnings?

As Nvidia solidifies its dominance in the AI chip market with impressive Q2 earnings, Advanced Micro Devices is making strategic moves to challenge its rival, including a $4.9 billion acquisition of ZT Systems and a strong Q2 performance.

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MSI releases firmware with 105W TDP mode for Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — multi-core performance boosted by up to 13%

MSI has announced AMD AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1, a new BIOS update "for trial use" that allows users to crank the TDP of their Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs. This follows the leak of the update from earlier this week, whose performance numbers exactly match MSI's.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GA605 review

The 16-inch gaming laptop I'd pick from the lot.

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Intel mulls spinning off its manufacturing division

Intel is working with investment banks over strategic options regarding its manufacturing operations.

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Intel Panther Lake laptop chips could get top-end CPUs to rival AMD Strix Halo – and they could change budget gaming laptops forever

Will discrete laptop graphics cards soon be a thing of the past? Quite possibly, if Intel and AMD’s plans come to fruition.

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AMD launches Ryzen 5 7600X3D: Microcenter exclusive six-core Zen 4 CPU with game-boosting 3D V-Cache

AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X3D to be exclusively available at Micro Center retail stores.

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Acer Swift Go 16 review: Premium performance for a decent price

The Acer Swift Go 16 is a winner, boasting phenomenal performance, decent battery life, and a vibrant display in a light and thin 16-inch chassis.

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End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – world of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication. For better or worse, we’ve…

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This open source tool updates DLSS to the latest version in all your games at once and no matter the launcher

Chalk another one up for open source ingenuity.

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As Intel's struggles continue, rumours are now emerging that plans are afoot to flog its chip-manufacturing fabs

Is Intel's future a fabless fait accompli?

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New on Steam: Gundam Breaker 4 Lets You Build, Customize Your Own Gunpla

Hack and Slash RPG Gundam Breaker 4 was released on Steam on August 29, 2024, and has "Mostly Positive" reviews

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AMD posts first Instinct MI300X MLPerf benchmark results — roughly in line with Nvidia H100 performance

AMD's data center Instinct MI300X GPU can compete against Nvidia's H100 in AI workloads, and the company has finally posted an official result for MLPerf 4.1 — for the Llama 2 70B LLM at least. It's roughly in line with the H100 but noticeably slower than H200 and B200.

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The latest influx of Intel Arrow Lake rumours make me cautiously hopeful about desktop and mobile processors for a change

I'm not getting the confetti out just yet, though.

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Your ROG Ally doesn't suck, Windows 11 does

It appears that SteamOS yields huge performance and battery life improvements when compared to Windows 11.

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PSA: Star Wars Outlaws doesn't work on Steam Deck (yet), but it's great on ROG Ally and Legion Go

Star Wars Outlaws has some decently hefty system requirements, but can it run on gaming handhelds like Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go?

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AMD Ryzen 9700X and 9600X CPUs just got a free speed boost from MSI – and other motherboard makers are rumored to follow

Update your MSI motherboard now to get a new ‘turbo mode’ if you own one of these mid-range Zen 5 processors.

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Acer's Predator BiFrost Radeon RX 7600 OC was its first AMD GPU and still challenges Intel for 1080p gaming

Acer's Predator BiFrost Radeon RX 7600 OC offers excellent performance for 1080p gaming, but 8GB of VRAM will limit its lifespan.

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MSI's latest BIOS could give AMD Zen 5 yet another performance boost with a 105 W TDP toggle for the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X

Forget "fine wine" AMD GPUs, how about "fast-aging fine wine" AMD CPUs?

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MSI BIOS comes with a new 105W TDP option for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — user results show 13% multi-core performance improvement

MSI's latest firmware has a new 105W TDP option that boosts the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X TDP from 65W to 105W with a simple toggle.

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MSI over-the-top X870E Godlike motherboard for Ryzen 9000 supports 256GB DDR5 RAM, five M.2 SSDs, and two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots

MSI released the blueprint and some specs for its next-gen 800-series AMD motherboard.

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Lenovo's $1,000 gaming desktop runs cool and quiet at 1440p, but it has one hidden weak spot

Need a new pre-built gaming PC that can handle 1440p for around $1,000? Lenovo's Legion Tower 5i (Gen 8) gets a slight redesign and updated performance hardware for 2024. It's built well, but some of the internal hardware choices leave something to be desired.

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AMD Ryzen 9000 PCs don't need to wait until the next major Windows 11 update to fix gaming issues

AMD has determined why its Ryzen 9000 processors delivered worse performance than expected for some reviewers. Gaming performance will improve on certain affected systems that install a new optional update of Windows 11.

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Thought you’d have to wait for AMD’s big gaming speed boost for Ryzen 7000 and 9000 CPUs? Surprise – it’s here now with a Windows 11 update

This is a Windows 11 preview update that you’ll be sorely tempted to grab – if you have a modern Ryzen chip, that is.

PC Gamer

No need to wait, that AMD CPU performance update is available right now in Windows 23H2, and even Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips should receive a boost

If I was running a Ryzen chip I'd be installing this right away.

Tom’s Hardware

Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2, update available now — more users will see Ryzen performance improvements

Microsoft is backporting branch prediction optimizations in Windows 11 24H2 to Windows 11 23H2. With an update, you can get bumps to Zen 3, 4, and 5.

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