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  As Alienware announces a new design for its Aurora game desktops earlier this month it is clear that the revival is coming. And with Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs new, it seems that the time has come for Alienware to take the throne on the best gaming PCs. Alienware is pushing a new design for two new PCs: the Intel-based Alienware Aurora R13, and the Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R14 using existing AMD processors. While the AMD version can get a good name and location on the new chassis, the Intel version gets all the instruments and whistles thanks to Alder Lake. Both the R13 and R14 use the same graphics, from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 to the RTX 3090 on the Nvidia side, and the AMD selection from the Radeon RX 5300 to the RX 6900 XT. Both also receive up to 750W of Platinum capacity. The two desktops also get the same storage options, from 256GB M.2 SSD up to 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD paired with 2TB SATA HDD. But there is also a difference. The Intel-based Aurora R13, for ...

  Image Credit: AMD Update 10/21/21 10 am PT: Microsoft has now released the Windows 11 patch to the general public. This clip contains a second bug fix that causes L3 repository delays and bandwidth issues. That means both necessary adjustments are now available for AMD processors. We have amended the text below and added the appropriate line from the Windows changelog to the end of the title. AMD also confirmed to Tom's Hardware to release a clip of one of the two bugs that lead to reduced Windows 11 performance and impact on the game's Best CPUs. The first episode from AMD is in the form of a chipset driver that fixes the UEFI CPPC2 driver responsible for directing cables to the correct cores. Naturally, all users on Windows 11 platforms should update to the new episode as soon as possible - you can find a new driver here. The second episode comes from Microsoft as a modern Windows update. As a reminder, the bugs affect all Windows 11-compatible AMD processors. The first cli...

  Alder Lake's hybrid power on LN2 After a surprisingly long wait, Intel has officially announced the 12th Generation Alder Lake processors, the first standard components that support DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. Our citizen Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch wasted no time breaking a few world records with new hybrid chips during an Intel live broadcast event. With the help of a few liquid nitrogen tanks, Splave pushed the Core 9-12900K to 6.8 GHz into Golden Cove Performance cores (P-cores), and 5.3 GHz to Gracemont cores Efficiency cores (E-cores ). He also dialed 5.5 GHz on the ring / cache. For reference, the Core i9-12900K includes 5.2 GHz P-core clocks and 3.9 GHz E-core boost. That’s 31% and a 36% overclock on P-and E-cores, respectively. ASRock's Z690 Aqua OC Edition was the Splave motherboard of choice. The OC Edition is almost a carbon copy of the vanilla Z690 Aqua, with the exception of two few DDR5 memory spaces. The dual-DIMM design aims to improve memory overclocking. The ...

Raspberry using X-ray vision (Image credit: Jeff Geerling) The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has just been announced worldwide and its secrets are slowly spreading. Courageous Raspberry Pi Jeff Geerling broke his X-ray machine and discovered a hidden secret that could not be seen, a raspberry buried deep in the latest board. (Image credit: Jeff Geerling) The $ 15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is an update to the original Raspberry Pi Zero board list, first unveiled in 2015. The Zero 2 W comes with a quad core Arm Cortex A53 running at 1-GHz, 512MB RAM and a GPU all packed into a new SIP (System in Package) called RP30-AU. This new package is the bespoke Raspberry Pi, its package in the same way as the $ 1 RP2040 enabled Raspberry Pi Pico. Below the RP30-AU is where Geerling found a hidden Easter egg, a Raspberry Pi logo hidden in BGA (Ball Grid Array) under the chip. This is not visible under the board, so unless you have an X-ray machine, or are very good at creating it they will always be hidden. (I...

  Maxtang's GXTL-50 is SFF PC with an Intel Tiger Lake and Xe graphics. There are many form factor (SFF) PCs with Intel's Tiger Lake mobile processors inside, but most are actively cooled. Recently unveiled by FanlessTech, the Maxtang GXTL-50 stands out for bringing everything you would expect to a Mini PC - without fans. Measuring 11.14 x 5.04 x 2.72 inches (283 x 128 x 69mm) the GXTL-50 uses its upper side for cooling, so it should be installed somewhere with proper airflow. Maxtang offers a choice of Mini PC with 5 Intel Tiger Lake processors: Celeron 6305 or Core i3-1115G4, i5-1145G7 or i7-1165G7. The system can be installed up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR4 RAM and M.2-2280 SSD with PCIe interface. The GXTL-50 door I / O is the basis for the Tiger Lake-powered system. The device comes with a GbE port, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapter, dual HDMI output, four USB Type-A connectors (2.0 / 3.0), one USB-C port and audio jack 3.5mm headphones. For some reason, Maxtang did not include ...

  Credit: Samsung The new version of Samsung's 980 Pro Gen 4 SSD will come to market this holiday season in the form of a heatsink version for PlayStation 5 owners. . However, there is nothing stopping you from using this drive on PC, where you can see the continuous speed of reading and writing. The new 980 Pro looks very similar to the standard 980 Pro with other Samsung SSDs, which include a darker black finish. The heatsink provides cooling both down and above the drive, with four spaces visible on the upper part of the SSD, which will provide more thermal dissipation compared to filling those gaps with steel. The heatsink is designed specifically for the PS5's M.2 extension area and will keep the drive cool for many hours at the end, useful for long game sessions where performance is key. The drive retains the same operating features as the standard version, with a maximum read speed of up to 7000 MB / s and writes at speeds of up to 5100 MB / s on the PCIe Gen 4 interface...

 The graphics cards of the RTX 30 series, which take up a few places on our list of best photo cards, are getting much cheaper than they were a few months ago. According to-3DCenter.org, 30 Nvidia series cards are cheaper in price than the RD 6000 AMP GPU series on the German market, giving us hope that Nvidia card prices may continue to go to MSRP. According to the graphics card price chart, from-3DCenter.org, the RX 6000 series cards (considered as a percentage of German MSRP) have a price close to Nvidia's list of similar values ​​successfully in the first half of 2021. But now that we are in it. In August, GPU prices on Nvidia cards continued to decline (albeit slowly since July), while AMD prices began to rise, and cards from two companies exchanged locations. The sharp decline in the price of RTX graphics cards cannot be overstated. In May, Nvidia cards were selling more than 300% of MSRP in a short period of time. But since then, inflation has fallen sharply, falling to 191%...

At its DevSummit conference this week, the Arm said that is the construction of the next generation GPU which is supposed to be 2022 that will work almost twice compared to this year's Arm Mali-G710 in terms of FP32 engine performance. Compared to the previous generation of Arms building since 2018, the new GPU will be almost five times faster than the stated load. Speaking at DevSummit, Ian Bratt of Arm, Chief Technology Officer of the ML business unit at Arm, showed a slide showing how fast the architecture of Arm's GPU architecture is progressing rapidly. The company’s 2022 GPU structure is now expected to be 4.7 times faster than the Mali-G76 at FP32 ML load per performance. The GPU core is a collection of application units, texture units, raster units, and other application-specific computer hardware. It is not yet clear how the performance enhancement of FP32 ML affects game performance or overall performance per watt, but we do know that the latest Arm Mali G-710 offers ...