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    News We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app

    This is not really a new thing, GFE has always been collecting telemetry in the background, now that is shifting to nvidia app...what is sad is the discontinuation of nvidia control panel which does NOT have all that stuff running in the background, only the settings portion which I actually...
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    News Linus Torvalds is "fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks" — Linux kernel creator lashes out ahead of proposed kernel code...

    Anybody else notice a problematic typo: The intel engineer's name in the article is not Kirill Shitemov...but instead Kirill Shutemov ...smh of course 'u' is right next to 'i' on the keyboard, but this is quite an unfortunate oversight.
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    News SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design Flaw, Says Researcher

    Something else that is interesting...apparently Western Digital intends to split/spin-off their Flash and HDD business after a merger plan with Kioxia fell through. Feels a bit odd really...depending on the news article you can get a rather different feel about this split..one is 'oh the flash...
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    News Technician Repairs Hundreds of RTX 4090s With Melted Power Connectors Every Month

    Let me give my two cents as someone who has recently bought a new 4090 that has the old connector (non-founders). To be clear the original design and execution was flawed, period. Upon installation I noticed quite clearly that it will feel like it is in all the way with relatively little...
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    News AMD Says Most Gamers Don't Care About GPU Power Consumption

    Responding to the article: Oh, no, no and NO. This is NOT simply about power consumption. In my case with the 7900xtx that I have... this about the chiplet design and unoptimized "gaming scenarios" that should have LONG ago been fixed with drivers by now. A number of games work fine. But the...
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    News Gigabyte RTX 4090 Up Recesses 16-Pin Power Connector

    There are a couple big differences to keep in mind, (that are visible) the V2 version does NOT have a vapor chamber as the V1 version had, only a copper plate for GPU/MEM contact (reduced cooling efficiency may result), Interestingly, the fans have also been changed to sleeve fans with "graphene...