cpus
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Laptops Are Getting 5GHz CPUs (Kind Of)
There might be some healthy competition among CPUs in the desktop market, but for the last decade laptops have been well and truly Intel’s domain. And to make sure the status quo remains, Intel has fired off a rather sizeable bullet for 2019 by announcing the release of 5GHz octacore CPUs for the laptop market.
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AMD Unveils Radeon 7, Their $US700 7nm GPU
The second generation of AMD’s Vega and the first gaming graphics card on the 7nm fabrication process was finally unveiled at CES early this morning, sporting 16GB of high-bandwidth memory and a quoted 25% jump in performance from the previous generation.
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I Put A Big Air Cooler In My PC And It’s Working Pretty Great
Last week, I documented the constant low-level anxiety I had been feeling about cooling the CPU in my gaming PC. I’d spent a couple of years wrestling with all-in-one liquid coolers and had never found something that worked like I wanted. Well, good news: I’ve finally found something that does.
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Microsoft Quietly Kills Windows 7 Support For Non-SSE2 CPUs
Earlier this year, Microsoft pushed out an update for Windows 7 that, when installed, would cause systems running CPUs without SSE2 support to blue screen. The company said it was “working on a resolution” however, a few months later, it appears that resolution is to “buy a new PC”.
