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    News Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blac...

    And Windows phone was a huge missed opportunity, not executed well, especially after buying Lumina.
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    Question Is it normal for a Ryzen 9950X to reach a temp of 88C° during a Bitdefender system scan ?

    Thinking back to my 10900K CPU, it would heat up to a higher temp on all cores when running a manual Windows Defender antivirus scan of the whole OS drive. The OS drive was on an NVME drive. In coretemp I could see the core usage maxed out on all cores when the antivirus scan was running hard...
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    Question Is it normal for a Ryzen 9950X to reach a temp of 88C° during a Bitdefender system scan ?

    What is the reported usage (percentage) on each core during the scan?
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    News Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

    I should have made my response clearer. I edited my original response.
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    News Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

    Possibly a way to avoid the restrictions Microsoft is placing on the older hardware and still recycle donated computers to people with a familiar OS, at least from their perspective. ***edited***
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    News Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

    Bare with me as I am not Linux literate. Would a Linux install that boots to the desktop, then loads virtual box, then Windows 11 in a virtual PC work.
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    News IBM secures patent for 4D printing — smart material uses ML for transporting microparticles

    Not not quite Star Trek transporters, but eerily reminds me of Stargate replicators.
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    News Some RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Report

    Maybe the 5080 Ti got released early, accidentally. or The missing ROPs will appear on the GPUs when multi frame generation is working.
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    News Lenovo’s Legion 9i Has Built-In Liquid Cooling

    Unfortunately, the liquid cooling is almost a must for the GPU’s VRAM. I own the Legion Pro 7i Intel w/ Nvidia mobile 4090, a similar 16” thin design. I frequently see VRAM temps > 100C. I am just glad I sprung for the 3 year warranty.
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    Discussion Sandy Bridge VS Alder Lake

    I will go with Sandy Bridge E. My 3930K was the best over clocker I have owned, with a stable 4.6Ghz on all 6 cores. Coupled with quad core RAM, and Titan Blacks in SLI, it was quite the PC.
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    Question PC crashing with various symptoms ?

    After reading the OP, I was going to post something very similar. Quite possibly bad VRAM.
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    Question Black Screen occasionally ?

    Can you remember when the problem started? Was it after you switched monitors, upgraded components, maybe a Windows update or upgrade? Did you mention the make and model of your monitor?
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    Question GIGABYTE RTX 3070 50% Power Usage & Performance Issue

    How many watts does the 1070 report using when running the same time spy test?
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    Question RTX 3070 only using 45% power on Hell Let Loose. Anyone know any solves?

    When playing Hell Let Lose, what is your CPU usage?