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It can be a terrifying experience to shell out almost $1,000 for the newest and most potent CPU, particularly if you’ve heard that it has some problems with purportedly compatible motherboards. This appears to be the case with AMD Ryzen 9000 chips and ASRock AM5 motherboards, which have been experiencing an unusually high number of problems. The good news is that ASRock claims that the most recent BIOS fixes those problems. Granted, ASRock doesn’t appear to be very eager to…

Microsoft abruptly eliminated the Windows key + C keyboard shortcut for starting the Copilot AI helper in Windows 11 back in June 2024. Instead, a dedicated Copilot key was added to more recent keyboards. A keyboard shortcut for Copilot voice chat and a verbal launch trigger that said “Hey Copilot” were added later. The Windows key + C keyboard shortcut has been restored as of update KB5058502, the optional May patch that was made available yesterday for Windows 11 23H2.…

DisplayPort and HDMI have historically been the two connector types found on PC graphics cards. They might be introducing Thunderbolt as a third now. During Computex this year, Sparkle unveiled “Project Thundermage,” a prototype OPC graphics card that included two Thunderbolt connectors, DisplayPort, and HDMI. The partner, Intel, was the tell, though, as their “Barlow Ridge” Thunderbolt 5 controller was partnered with their “Battlemage” Arc GPUs. The most recent DisplayPort or HDMI connectors, which both provide the bandwidth required for…

Biwin unveiled the Black Opal X570 Pro, a brand-new PCIe 5.0 SSD that nearly fully utilizes the PCIe 5.0 interface and achieves sequential read rates of up to 14,000 MB/s, at Computex 2025. The M.2 2280 SSD has a capacity of 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB and is connected via four PCIe 5.0 channels. The Silicon Motions SM2508 SSD controller, which Biwin supplies with a DRAM cache to buffer write access, is included with the Pro model. For every 1 TB…