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Final Fantasy XVI PC benchmarks: Poorly optimized and needs framegen just to hit 60 fps on a lot of GPUs

The PC port of Final Fantasy XVI delivers very poor performance, even on the fastest GPUs. You basically need upscaling and framegen just to break 60 fps with most graphics cards, with a 30 fps cap in all the in-engine cutscenes.

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Fluance Ai41 Powered 5-inch Stereo Bookshelf Speakers Review: Solid sound, good wood looks

The Fluance Ai41 Powered 5-inch Stereo Bookshelf Speakers don't break new ground, but they're an attractive, good-sounding value, with a remote that's more versatile than most.

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AMD hides Taiwan branding on Ryzen CPU packaging as it preps new chips for China market release — company uses black sticker to erase origin information

AMD hid the information on the back of its packaging for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D that says that AMD processors are diffused and made in Taiwan.

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AMD Z1 Extreme beats Intel Core Ultra 7 258V in DX12 gaming benchmark — Zen 4 chip offers over 90% higher performance

The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V performs much better than the AMD Z1 Extreme with 12GB of RAM. However, when the AMD chips were matched with 16GB of RAM, they blew the 32GB Intel SoC out of the water.

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Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop

Intel’s new mobile chips promise better performance and longer battery life, but they snub power users like me.

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'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA

Change is good, right?

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Best of IFA 2024: New CPUs, new laptops, and more

The most innovative and interesting products that debuted at Berlin's tech show.

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Lenovo’s Lunar Lake-powered X1 Carbon Aura Edition weighs just 2.16 pounds

Lenovo has announced four new business laptops at IFA, including the X1 Carbon (Gen 13), which is the lightest and most powerful version of its flagship laptop yet.

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Lenovo's new AI-powered Yogas and IdeaPads use Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI 300

Lenovo brought new Yogas to IFA in Berlin, powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) and AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors.

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Lenovo’s Auto Twist AI PC IFA concept has a motorized hinge that can follow you around and close itself via voice command

The Facebook Portal of portable PCs?

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Asus ROG Swift PG27AQDP OLED 480 Hz gaming monitor review: Raising the bar

Asus redefines gaming performance with its ROG Swift PG27AQDP OLED gaming monitor. It delivers QHD resolution with a max refresh rate of 480 Hz plus Adaptive-Sync, ELMB, HDR and wide gamut color. The bar has been raised; let the shock and awe begin.

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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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Black Myth Wukong PC benchmarks: A tour de force for Nvidia's ray tracing hardware [Updated]

We’ve benchmarked the PC release of Black Myth Wukong on the latest graphics cards to see how it runs. The game looks stunning, particularly with full ray tracing enabled at maximum quality, but non-Nvidia hardware will be best served using Unreal Engine 5's Lumen rendering.

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Raspberry Pi 5’s new 2GB model benchmarked: Do you need 2, 4 or 8GB? : We test against the 4 and 8GB versions

Do you need all the RAM for a full Raspberry Pi 5 experience? Of course you do, but could you get away with a 2GB model?

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Where to Buy the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X

The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Zen 5 processors are AMDs latest CPU release, but where can you pick one up, and are they in stock?

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Cooler Master MasterHUB modular control panel hits pre-order after four years in development

The Cooler Master MasterHUB modular control panel is now available on Kickstarter. Early backers get a 24% discount on either the Starter or Pro Kits, and shipments are expected to start on September 2024.

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Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors

Intel announced today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years.

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AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors, but it's for a more trivial reason than Intel's ongoing 13th/14th Gen disaster

An unfortunate "short delay" hits AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors, but it could be a lot worse as its Intel rivals suffer ongoing backlash with their own processor problems.

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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPU delay is due to… typos on the chips? It seems unbelievable, but here we are

AMD reportedly mislabels mid-range Ryzen 9000 CPUs as high-end chips – is this the reason for Zen 5’s delay to August?

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Microdisplay tracks your pupils to adjust brightness, avoid HUD fatigue

Kopin's NeuralDisplay Tech builds an eye-tracking camera into a microdisplay and uses it to dynamically adjust brightness and contrast.

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It looks as if the best way of avoiding the CrowdStrike drama was to run Windows 3.1 all along

As its competitor airlines were grounded thanks to the CrowdStrike drama, Southwest carried on thanks to a now ancient version of Windows.

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Honor MagicBook Art 14 innovates with a removable webcam – and backs it up with some impressive laptop specs

Has Honor lost the plot – or the webcam – with its new idea for a detachable camera on a laptop? We don’t think so.

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Gigabyte twists its RAM slots to fit 24TB of DDR5 sticks into a standard server — AMD EPYC sports an impossible 48 DIMMs in new configs

Gigabyte's R283-ZK0 motherboard fits two AMD SP5 server sockets on one board, and has to twist the onboard DDR5 memory slots to fit 48 DIMMs for 2 DIMM per channel operation.

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Prime Day Tech Deals You Can Still Get: Discounts on Monitors, SSDs and More

We're sorting through all the savings on PC components and systems so you don't have to.

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Apple's renewed push for Mac gaming relies on its whole ecosystem to attract users

Apple doesn't have the library that PC gaming offers, but with an ecosystem and a chip architecture shared across platforms, being in the ecosystem can have some benefits.

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