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    Review MSI MEG X870E Godlike Motherboard Review: Seven USB-C and M.2 sockets, $1100 price

    I sure would love to see a breakdown of how many people buy these boards and what the percentage is to cheaper boards.
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    News Intel Battlemage GPU has surfaced in the wild — GPU spotted with 24 Xe2 cores, 19 Gbps memory, 12GB VRAM, 192-bit bus

    Given Intel is doing layoffs soon i bet you are right and this graphics card will have iffy driver support. I would not buy this until after Intel announces layoffs to be safe.
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    Hands-On with Phanteks' XT Pro Ultra PC case: Modern budget case with lots of airflow and RGB out of the box

    I don't think the reviewer wanted a second dust filter for the front, merely he wanted the existing dust filter to be removable. I have a be quiet 500DX and it is the same for the front dust filter, it is there but not removable. I have to remove the front of the case to clean it but it only...
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    SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.

    Thank you. I figured it was not your fault and instead a decision the higher ups with no skin in the game that frustrates you and your colleagues as much as us readers.
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    SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.

    Hard to tell Toms is a tech site when they restrict the table width to something so narrow you cannot see all the columns. I guess no one has embraced 16x9 monitors who work there, or do they only work on their phones in portrait mode?
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    News MSI Launches Project Zero Motherboards With Hidden Connectors

    Unless you destroy the integrity of the motherboard sheet metal given some of the holes need to be large. I like this idea of all connectors in the back. at the same time i have no issues looking at the wires in my case and wish my PSU did not have a shroud hiding it. are the riser screws...
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    Review Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 240 AIO Review: Raising the Bar

    I used to point out exactly what was wrong, but it is getting worse and if the company does not care I am not going to do free work to point it out anymore. Specially when these companies only care about a return on investment instead of generate the content and then get a following.
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    Review Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 240 AIO Review: Raising the Bar

    I did not even catch that, I found the other 2 before it. Hilarious!
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    News Nvidia Seemingly Uses Revamped Power Connector for RTX 4070 FE

    The author has a sense of humor:
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    News Windows 365 Boot Lets You Boot Directly Into the Cloud

    I already have to use VPN 100% of the time I work and my data transfers max out at 100KB/s. I can only imagine using this on the VPN!
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    News AMD to Make Hybrid CPUs, Using AI for Chip Design: CTO Papermaster at ITF World

    No home use? How else are you going to make disinformation photos and videos at home to influences elections without your own AI processor? /sarcasm
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    News MSI's Adds Backup Capability to PCIe Gen5 SSDs

    It does not matter no one wants such a slow drive PS that was sarcasm.
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    News These Blu-Ray Discs Are Guaranteed to Last 100 Years

    thanks for the info. I put my trust into the Verbatim name. Oh well, I still have pictures, just no RAW files.
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    News M.2 NVMe SSD Support Comes to DSLR Cameras

    So the justification is that it is cheaper than Compact Flash? That is a poor reason to add something that sticks out, breaking any weather proofing as well as add potential to break the camera storage door and/or slot. OP think you mean drives not drivers: