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If you recently spent over a thousand dollars on a new graphics card and it doesn’t perform as you expected, you may be disappointed. Due to reports of missing ROPs on recently released cards, many buyers of new RTX 50-series GPUs are currently experiencing this. A recent statement claims that it is a manufacturing problem that is covered by the warranty. There should be 176 ROPs (or “Render Output Units”) on the RTX 5090 and 96 on the RTX 5070…

Every graphics card available seems to come in a million different varieties. There aren’t, however, based on the Amazon search results for “4070,” you may assume that there are. Speaking of which, Asus debuted the new Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025 in five different flavors. Adam from PCWorld managed to obtain them all for your enjoyment. (To be clear, the film below was sponsored by Asus. It costs a lot to send a group of live reporters and…

The eagerly awaited announcement has finally arrived, even though I was about to give up on it happening. Nintendo formally unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2 today, January 16, 2025. Despite having a larger display, better internal hardware, and larger Joy-Cons that attach and detach magnetically rather than sliding on rails, the successor to the Nintendo Switch has a remarkably similar appearance. Additionally, the video immediately announces the debut of a new Mario Kart game on the Switch 2! Naturally, that…

Today, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X CPU at CES. The company hopes to deliver quick performance and long battery life to a larger market by building the processor with mainstream and low-cost laptops in mind, potentially paving the way for $600 Snapdragon PCs. This is great news because we have witnessed how battery-efficient Snapdragon laptops are. For instance, in our extensive battery test, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 operated for nearly twenty-four hours. Pardon me as I raise my…

For years, I have mounted my desktop computers beneath my desk because it is a terrific method to save room and prevent cable problems, especially if you use a standing desk like I do. However, a German company has created a tiny desktop computer that can go undetected since it is mounted directly to the underside of the desk and only protrudes a few inches. It is a fanless, silent computer that can run Windows 11. If you keep up…

Qualcomm has been informed by Arm Ltd. that its architectural license, which permits Qualcomm to produce the Oryon CPU cores at the core of the Snapdragon X Elite chip and Copilot+ PCs, will expire in 60 days. An earlier Bloomberg report that Arm is terminating the architectural license agreement has been independently verified. Qualcomm referred to the cancellation notice as “further unsubstantiated threats” and stated that it anticipates a trial in December to settle the matter. According to a person…

I guess you might as well stuff your ostentatious PC case with something visually appealing if it will just consist of an enormous array of tempered glass panels. Examples of such items include the screens on your motherboard, water block, and RAM. What if your power source also had a screen? With their most recent ROG Thor PSU, Asus says, “Why the heck not?” I suppose you might as well add something aesthetically pleasing to your gaudy PC case since…

AMD intends to unite its CDNA and RDNA architectures into a “new DNA,” or “unified DNA,” that will combine the architectures utilized by its data center and consumer graphics architectures, according to a company executive. In addition to AMD’s modification to its consumer Radeon GPU ambitions to target mainstream but not flagship enthusiast goods, the objective is to include more developers in the fold. AMD is attempting to assemble a core group of software developers who can create applications for…

An upcoming Asus motherboard delivers some very welcome news if you have ever tried to replace your PC’s graphics card: a novel retention mechanism that unlocks the card without the need for an awkwardly located lever or button. The Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO motherboard, on display this week at Gamescom in Germany, incorporates the innovative mechanism. The demonstration was seen by HotHardware and captured in this der8auer video. As the name suggests, this particular board features AMD’s 870E chipset…

Version 129.0 of Firefox, which is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, was just released by Mozilla. Numerous security flaws have been fixed in this release, along with improvements to Reader View and DNS entry handling. The two Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) versions also have security patches. Mozilla mentions 14 security flaws that have been fixed in Firefox 129’s security report, with 11 of them being classified as high risk. None of the security flaws have, as far…