Recent content by Thunder64

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    News Intel quietly rolls out 'new' Core 5 CPUs that look suspiciously like 12th Gen chips — Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F enter the budget gaming market wi...

    There were a few cases of AMD X3D CPU's failing because motherboards set SOC voltage to high. Intel had plenty of problems with degrading CPU's and avoided admitting fault at every turn. Whatever, it doesn't matter. No DIY person is choosing Intel these days. I'm glad they are suffering for...
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    News Battlefield 6 requirements suggest it'll run on surprisingly modest PCs — EA VP says it still won't work on Steam Deck, though

    Come on, that's just downright stupid editorializing. No way they would come even close to limiting their install base to such a high level.
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    News Intel quietly rolls out 'new' Core 5 CPUs that look suspiciously like 12th Gen chips — Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F enter the budget gaming market wi...

    At cheap prices. Rebranding has been going on forever. Nice try. Remember the Intel "Snake oil" ad they had to promptly pull trying to do what you are doing here? Even Intel didn't want that trash marketing out there.
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    News Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop

    Let me correct that, its performance was like a 290/390 at far less power. I know it wasn't just a die shrink. I was going to link to Anandtech but that site is slow as hell at times. Right now it is working a bit better. I know it was GCN 4 and probably the best of the bunch. The followup Vega...
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    News Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop

    For the 580 sure that's true. The 480 was basically a 290 using almost 100W less. 8GB was the icing on the cake. Since mining wasn't an issue, just high demand, I was able to get one at MSRP like I said. I just had to wait a month or so after launch. If only that were true today.
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    News Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop

    It's amazing how everyone seems to forget the 470/480 were a thing. I remember them being hard to get at the time as they were performant enough and offered a huge jump in efficiency going from 28nm to 14nm. I grabbed the 8GB one at MSRP ($239) a few weeks after launch. One of my favorite cards.
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    News IT provider sued after it simply 'handed the credentials' to hackers — Clorox claims Cognizant gaffe enabled a $380m ransomware attack

    Well that's just beyond stupid. Who the hell hires idiots like that? So somebody uses LinkedIn and says they're now part of Bob's team and can't get into their account? The wonders of outsourcing.
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    News IT provider sued after it simply 'handed the credentials' to hackers — Clorox claims Cognizant gaffe enabled a $380m ransomware attack

    I don't understand and still seem to be missing it. How did Cognizant know the password to begin with? They should only allow a user to reset their password.
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    News IT provider sued after it simply 'handed the credentials' to hackers — Clorox claims Cognizant gaffe enabled a $380m ransomware attack

    Were the passwords stored in plain text? Or did they "eset it to something they then knew?
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    News McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025

    You shouldn't have to create an account to apply to a job.
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    News VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality - enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

    That certainly fits more in line with a Riva TnT 2. By 2001 when the Tualitian P3's came out the Geforce 3 had already come out as well. Things sure did move fast back then.