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    watzupken replied to the thread News New UEFI vulnerability bypasses Secure Boot — bootkits stay undetected even after OS re-install.

    The more complications they add, the more vulnerabilities they open up.

    Jan 19, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app.

    "We are making do with our old launcher, and asking you to move to another "new" launcher". I don't see why there is a need to install a...

    Jan 19, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and....

    Yes and no. I feel Bulldozer was an overall regression, while Arrow Lake is generally a good step forward for power requirement and most...

    Jan 19, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and....

    Agree, but when the conditions are largely the same, then I question if there is a problem with their testing or are they doing...

    Jan 19, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and....

    But Intel cant solve the problem themselves, so what’s the point of further probing? Perhaps Intel should clarify what was the test...

    Jan 18, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 mass produces 4nm chips at a higher price than Taiwan.

    In times where prices of practically everything are going up at a rapid pace, any increase in prices is not going to help most people. I...

    Jan 17, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Arm PC market share won't rise above 13% in 2025 says ABI Research.

    "Efficient new x86 chips may have blocked Arm's best route to laptop market growth." I think the above analysis is not the root cause...

    Jan 6, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News TSMC's wafer pricing now $18,000 for a 3nm wafer, increased over 3X in 10 years: Analyst.

    I don't think it is surprising that cost and prices will go up because it gets harder to shrink transistors. However, a large part of...

    Jan 6, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Vendor claims Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores and 3D V-Cache is ready for launch — manufacturer also asserts Arrow Lake-HX CPUs offer minimal per....

    I find this is overkill for most people and also priced way out for most people to buy. Looking at just the normal Ryzen AI chips...

    Jan 5, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Leakers revise RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 power draw to 575W and 360W respectively — Up to 27% higher than last-generation RTX 40 GPUs.

    I may be wrong, but Ada is likely an outlier because Nvidia transitioned from a dated Samsung 10nm for their Ampere, to TSMC's cutting...

    Jan 3, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Leakers revise RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 power draw to 575W and 360W respectively — Up to 27% higher than last-generation RTX 40 GPUs.

    In my opinion, it is not Nvidia that hit a performance wall, but the reality is that it is getting very challenging to shrink...

    Jan 3, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives – Storage company shut down consumer division over a year ago.

    In my opinion, there are too many SSD brands out there. Many which don't sell that well unless they go aggressive on pricing. So while...

    Jan 3, 2025
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Human thought runs at just 10 bits per second, say Caltech scientists — that's why we are mostly single-taskers.

    I think the finding is applicable to these so called scientists that came up with this.

    Dec 29, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Gaming industry insiders say cutting-edge graphics cost too much to make for AAA games.

    This is a bubble waiting to explode sooner than later. 2024 is a good example of AAA games that prioritize graphics over storyline and...

    Dec 27, 2024
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    watzupken reacted to ex_bubblehead's post in the thread News Gaming industry insiders say cutting-edge graphics cost too much to make for AAA games with Like.

    This was inevitable when game play took a backstage position to graphics.

    Dec 27, 2024

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