In brief: Intel’s 12th generation Core processors are right around the corner, and everything we’ve seen so far indicates they’ll be faster than their Rocket Lake predecessors and at least as fast as AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. A newly leaked benchmark seems to confirm that Alder Lake CPUs achieve this higher performance at a…
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Clean, comfortable, and in control — We tested foot rests, chargers, and other desk gear to make your workday easier. Corey Gaskin – Nov 1, 2021 3:45 pm UTC Enlarge / Your home office can always use some sprucing up, especially when it’s your main place of work.Corey Gaskin Recently, I’ve gotten really into ergonomics.…
Spin it off — Ends 8-year saga that will unwind part of deal for server and storage group EMC. Richard Waters, Financial Times – Nov 1, 2021 3:43 pm UTC Bloomberg | Getty Images PC pioneer Michael Dell is set to cap his climb back to the top of the computing world on Monday with…
best for last? — This is the last-ever gasoline-only M5, and BMW has gone all out. Bradley Iger – Nov 1, 2021 3:23 pm UTC Enlarge / The first BMW M5 to ever receive the CS treatment is a seriously potent sports sedan, but that performance comes with some notable compromises.Bradley Iger Although today’s M5…
Intel/Lenovo If your computer runs both an Intel 4th-gen Core processor and uses integrated graphics, you might find yourself with a bit of a headache the next time you upgrade your graphics driver. The company announced today that several processor families are losing official support for the DirectX 12 API system, due to a “potential…
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Dr. Ian Cuttress of Tech Tech Potato and Anandtech.com, and Adam Patrick Murray go over Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake CPU performance and a secret feature. After years of absence from desktop competition, Intel’s hybrid 12th-gen Alder Lake CPU touches down with a major splash putting AMD’s…
Update: Microsoft has begun offering an “out of band” (unplanned) security update to address the problems described below. According to a Microsoft security bulletin, users with an affected PC can either use Windows Update to seek out a patch (KB5008295) that will fix the issues, or manually download the update from Microsoft’s support page. Microsoft…
Warner Bros. Denuvo, a popular but resource-intensive digital rights management program, has been the bane of PC gamers for years. With the recent introduction of Intel’s impressive new 12th-gen processors, it looks like gamers have yet another reason to dislike DRM. According to a report from Intel itself, dozens of popular games which use the…
It’s a god-tier GPU battle for the ages. The mighty RTX 3090 welcomes its RTX 3080 Ti brethren to lock horns with the AMD RX 6900 XT. These bruisers are large, expensive, and gloriously impressive. These are all some of the best graphics cards around, but what should you expect to pay, and which one…