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    News Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K CPUs Benchmarked

    All the 14th gen chips will have Intel's vpu for AI tasks, which are a big deal for many purposes, from processing audio and video streams to local assistants. Some benchmarks put the vpu+GPU combo at 1660 levels for a representative app, stable diffusion. This is going to be a big deal, and...
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    News GeForce RTX 4090 Leaves Plenty of Room for a Future RTX 4090 Ti Flagship

    So for all the applications that are memory and bus constrained, there's not much difference compared to a two year old 3090.
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    Quality Control? Why I Returned My ThinkPad X1 Carbon 3 Times

    Thanks for writing this article. I have a first gen X1 Yoga, and just got an L380 Yoga. The L380 came with an outright defective keyboard, and the screen is uneven with some bad pixels. It also came with a Lenovo NVME drive, despite all reviews saying it would be Samsung. The big service secret...
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    ASRock Deskmini GTX Z370 Review: The Ultimate Barebones PC

    It's very puzzling why no tiny pc maker won't simply make room for a 3.5" drive. Sure, it'll add an inch or so, but the storage options are much better. Whoever designs a mb & case to fit two nvme drives and a 3.5" drive deserves wealth.
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    ASRock Deskmini GTX Z370 Review: The Ultimate Barebones PC

    It's very puzzling why no tiny pc maker won't simply make room for a 3.5" drive. Sure, it'll add an inch or so, but the storage options are much better. Whoever designs a mb & case to fit two nvme drives and a 3.5" drive deserves wealth.
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    Haswell-Based Xeon E3-1200: Three Generations, Benchmarked

    32GB is a very small upper memory limit for the Xeon line in 2013. 192GB would be more reasonable for a low end xeon. Lots of applications would significantly benefit.