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NNotton replied to the thread News Arctic guarantees its LGA1700 coolers are compatible with Intel's next-gen LGA1851 socket.Caveat when Intel and mobo makers push the CPU boost too aggressively, leading to increased failure rate with water cooling because it's...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay — RTX 4070 or RX 7800XT is the minimum.Get a faster CPU? CIV series is famous for AI turn lengths when your CPU is slow. The difference was night and day when I upgraded my R7...
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NNotton replied to the thread News 60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years.A capacity increase, along with price decrease in the 2.5" SATA market would be welcome. It's been stuck at 2TB - 7mm thickness and 5TB...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Lunar Lake allegedly smokes Z1 Extreme handheld gaming champ in early gaming benchmarks.Did you watch the video? It's smoking the AI 9 HX 370 I wouldn't say <30fps average and <15fps 1% lows is a playable frame rate in the...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Lunar Lake allegedly smokes Z1 Extreme handheld gaming champ in early gaming benchmarks.Lunar Lake is more promising, but I won't forget the misleading and non-repeatable performance in the MSI claw's early benchmarks.
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NNotton reacted to tamalero's post in the thread News U.S. enacts law to exempt select fabs from environmental reviews with
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NNotton replied to the thread News U.S. enacts law to exempt select fabs from environmental reviews.Having seen US environmental regulation at work, it is ridiculously and needlessly complicated. Instead of having 1 entity at the...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Google Fiber forces the competition to offer faster internet speeds — study shows up to 50% download speed increases in Mesa, Arizona.We don't, but the thing is though, infrastructure projects are costly. Like you'd have to be Google, Microsoft, or Government sized to...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Samsung's foundry customers reportedly flock to TSMC — three firms move to Taiwanese chipmaker in latest exodus.I'll start to worry when ASIC/bitcoin fabless chip companies dump Samsung. But this also confirms my suspicion on Samsung <8nm nodes...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Arrow Lake hotspot purportedly moves up compared to LGA 1700 — Der8auer preparing water blocks for Core Ultra 200 series.So, a vapor chamber. Too bad that DeepCool Assassin 4?5?6? with VC prototype will never make it outside of China.
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NNotton replied to the thread News Arrow Lake hotspot purportedly moves up compared to LGA 1700 — Der8auer preparing water blocks for Core Ultra 200 series.It might be interesting to revisit TR Peerless Assassin 140mm and Noctua D15 G2 on these new chips.
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NNotton replied to the thread News RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti adoption rates explode among gamers — mid-range Ada GPUs gain ground in latest Steam hardware survey.Unfortunately, Steam doesn't break down these numbers by region. The sudden rise of 4060/Ti could be caused by regional pricing or...
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NNotton replied to the thread If you're looking for a gaming laptop on a small budget, this $449 laptop deal is a winner.I checked crucial and it looks like it has user replaceable RAM, so toss in another 8GB module and you're set. (or slap in a 32GB kit...
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NNotton replied to the thread News AMD 24.9.1 drivers mark the proper debut of universal Fluid Motion Frames 2 — along with improved geometric downscaling.I'm surprised people still think the garbage implementation of frame gen in TVs is the same as gaming GPUs. They're vastly different...
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NNotton replied to the thread News Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance.Another limitation for desktop use is the PCIe lane config 8+4 lanes of 4.0 2+2 lanes of 3.0 It's okay for a mobile chip, but then...
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