Nvidia GPU scams are rampant right now – here’s what to do to stay safe
Scammers are targeting graphics cards, and Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is a frequent choice. Here’s how to stay safe from GPU scams.
Nvidia’s latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model
Nvidia’s latest version of the DLSS SDK provides VRAM optimizations to the transformer model, reducing its memory footprint by 20%.
Micron 2600 SSD Touts Adaptive Write Tech For Big Speed Gains On Budget Storage
Micron’s newly announced 2600 series of NVMe SSDs is a set of PCIe Gen4 drives the company says delivers TLC-like performance while retaining the cost efficiency of QLC NAND. The key to that claim? A new in-house caching approach dubbed Adaptive Write Technology (AWT), which Micron says significantly boosts write speeds—up to 63% faster sequential
Beloved Commodore May Rise From The Ashes As Retro Community Takes Over
A few weeks back, Christian “Perifractic” Simpson, former actor and founder of the Retro Recipes YouTube channel posted a video detailing possible plans to acquire Commodore. There is lots of history and backstory in the first video, but the gist is this: after contacting the current owners of the Commodore brand and trademarks for a potential
Safer, faster, and cheaper way to extract gold at 99% purity from electronic waste detailed — new method for recovering gold from PCBs uses a sanitizing reagent and a novel polymer
A Flinders University research team has developed a new way of recovering gold from ore and e-waste that’s safer and more cost-efficient.
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Microsoft claims that Windows 11 is 2.3 times faster than Windows 10, but fails to mention that the comparison is based entirely on new hardware versus old.
Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gives Japan’s new leading-edge chipmaker advice, says Rapidus needs unique tech to compete with TSMC
Rapidus plans to produce 2nm chip production with integrated packaging by 2027, but ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger cautions that it needs unique technology to compete with TSMC.
Ryzen 9 9950X3D bundle at Amazon includes a free 360mm AIO liquid cooler, or save $30 at Newegg
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is available for $669 at Amazon and comes with a free cooler at Newegg, although it is listed there at MSRP.
Asus makes branded burgers with KFC China, meal deal includes free limited-edition keycaps — ‘Fortress of Faith’ collaboration with fast food chain launches with $5.60 combo
Asus ROG teams up with KFC China to create ROG-branded burgers and KFC-themed keycaps.
Even upscalers can’t resuscitate a $10 GPU—13-year-old GTX 660 is so slow that FSR can’t give it a boost
Nvidia’s ancient GTX 660 was tested in a few modern titles to see whether or not FSR/XeSS upscaling could make the GPU output playable frame rates. Unfortunately, the GPU is so old that upscaling provided no FPS improvements at all in games that are still capable of running on the Kepler GPU.