Recent content by Pete Mitchell

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    News Qualcomm faces benchmark cheating allegations — Snapdragon X Elite/Plus benchmarks claimed to be fraudulent

    It's not crazy. Intel, Nvidia, and AMD have all done it and gotten caught. If the allegations are true I would expect that the marketing department was behind it, expecting that engineering could hit near those benchmarks on production systems. If they hadn't published those crazy numbers...
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    News AMD 3D V-Cache enables RAM disk to hit 182 GB/s speeds — over 12X faster than the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs

    There is zero use for this on Ryzen outside of a one time "hey, that's cool". No matter how hard tech bloggers try to make it seem there is so they can pad out their articles.
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    News Alan Wake 2 Punishes Your NVMe SSD at 2.7 GB/s

    So the author admits that the SSD stayed within the manufacturer’s temperature range, as no throttling occurred. Reads do not “punish” SSDs. If anything would stress an SSD, it would be writes, which isn’t happening here. So, what was the point of this article? Both Anandtech and Toms...
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    News China's ACCEL Analog Chip Promises to Outpace Industry Best in AI Acceleration for Vision Tasks

    Sure it is... Until it's verified by a third party, I call bull.
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    News GeForce RTX 4090 Cannot Handle Samsung's Odyssey Neo G9 240Hz Monitor: Limited to 120 Hz

    Yes. If it truely can't hit 240hz at that resolution on HDMI 2.1, I suspect Nvidia will release a driver or firmware update to fix it.
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    News Samsung's 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Dual UHD Gaming Monitor Lands August 23

    The panels aren't going to rip apart, but it's entirely possible for some drooping to occur towards the outer edges, if the physical structure of the monitor isn't strong enough to support the weight that far from the stand.
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    News Samsung's 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Dual UHD Gaming Monitor Lands August 23

    Don't buy this until there are plenty of reviews available from reputable sources. Samsung's last two G9 monitors (G9, G9 Neo) were littered with problems. Some were eventually fixed with firmware updates, but there are still quite a few that never were and never will be fixed. For monitors...
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    News Samsung's 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Dual UHD Gaming Monitor Lands August 23

    Neither. The article clearly states it's mini-LED.
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    News Users Report Ryzen 7000X3D Chips Burning Out, Killing Motherboards

    The more important question is how are Russian YouTubers getting their hands on AMD CPUs and motherboards? Need to shut that <Mod Edit> down.
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    News Nvidia Comments as Hackers Threaten to Release DLSS Code

    This type of hacking needs to be a capitol crime.
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    News Raspberry Pi 4 in Short Supply, Being Scalped at 400% Markup

    Amazon, Newegg, and EBay don't give a damn. The higher the price something sells for on their marketplace the more money they make. They have zero incentive to try to stop scalpers.
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    News Dual Chinese Zen-Based CPUs Beat Ryzen 5 5600X In Multi-Threaded Workloads

    16 cores beats 6 cores in multi-threading. Who would have thought? Hopefully you didn't pay this guy actual money to write this.