Category: Computing Components
ARM and Qualcomm are playing dice with the future of Windows laptops
It’s no secret that 2024’s batch of AI PCs owes much of their success to the excellent batch of Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, which has the best version of Windows Arm running as the OS. However, a nasty split between the two could jeopardize everything, especially for consumers. According to a…
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Don’t fret gamers, new AMD Ryzen CPUs will still work with your old motherboards according to a new leak
AMD continues to support its AM4 motherboards well into its AM5 socket with some of the best processors on the market, and a new leak seems to prove that, as it reveals several upcoming AMD Ryzen processors that are compatible with the older gen boards. New leaks, the first coming…
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We might now know the full specs for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU thanks to a new manufacturer leak
Tons of reports and rumors have gone flying around concerning the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, including release dates, clock speeds, and more. But thanks to a new leak from the motherboard manufacturer, we may now have a good idea of the specs it’s packing. Maxsun, which manufactures the…
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Let the games begin: after October the battle of the next-gen processors kicks off, so you might wanna hold off on building that new PC
Don’t buy a new PC until after October 25, 2024! Yes, I know that’s extremely specific, but I promise, it’ll all make sense shortly – as it seems like that date is when we’re going to finally know the truth of what’s in AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D box. It was…
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Intel’s already working on its 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs – but we’re still waiting for discrete 2nd-gen Battlemage graphics cards
Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest) Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU),…
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AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests a big leap in clock speeds – and a CPU shaping up to be Intel’s worst nightmare
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved. Maybe that isn’t…
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