MSI Russia Reduces Some Graphics Card Warranties From 3 Years to 6 Months

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In a shocking move, MSI Russia has has reduced the warranty period for 18 graphics cards, as reported by PC Gamer . MSI typically offers a 36-month warranty on graphics cards; however, the brand will only back the affected models for six months now.

MSI Russia shared the news on the company's warranty webpage but didn't share its exact reasoning. The list includes AMD Polaris and Navi


Neotron Pico Is A Micro ATX Board For Your Raspberry Pi Pico

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The Neotron dev team , consisting of makers Jonathan Pallant and Kaspar Emanuel, have created a custom PCB to carry our new favorite microcontroller—the Raspberry Pi Pico . The system is designed to resemble a retro-style computer you might find in the '80s, albeit with a micro-ATX form factor.

The best Raspberry Pi projects don't just draw inspiration from others, they add value and utilize the board to its fullest potential. The Neotron Pico is based off


Asus ROG Maximus XIII Hero Review: Premium Hardware, Premium Price

Our Verdict

Asus’ ROG Maximus XIII Hero is a full-featured Z590 motherboard that includes robust power delivery, premium audio with a DAC, four M.2 sockets, dual 2.5 GbE ports and integrated Wi-Fi 6E. Overall, the $499 Hero is a well-rounded premium board for Intel’s Z590 platform.

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  • + High-quality 14-phase 90A VRM
  • + 10 USB ports, incl. 2x Thunderbolt 4
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Alienware AW3821DW Review: Smooth, Curved, Slick Ultrawide

Our Verdict

The Alienware AW3821DW isn’t perfect, but right now, it’s the best value in 38-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. It delivers a solid gaming experience with a bright and saturated image that’s color-accurate. With premium styling and build quality, it’s sure to satisfy gamers looking for a jumbo display.

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  • + Bright and saturated image
  • + Accurate color
  • + Solid gaming performance
  • + Good styling, build quality

Against

  • - Below-average contrast
  • - No
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Atlast! Packs 10-Core Intel Core i9 CPU Into Small, Fanless Desktop

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Nowadays there are loads of small form-factor (SFF) systems featuring fairly high performance, there are also fanless PCss that can offer performance of regular desktops. Unfortunately, SFF and fanless worlds rarely intersect and passively cooled compact desktops are extremely rare. Yet, they exist. Recently Atlast! Solutions introduced its Sigao Model B , which packs Intel's 10-core Comet Lake CPU into a fairly small fanless chassis.

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Loongson Technology Develops Its Own CPU Instruction Set Architecture

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Chinese processor developer Loongson Technology this week announced that it had developed its own CPU instruction set architecture (ISA), Loongson Architecture (LoongArch) that has nothing to do with architectures designed outside of China. Surprisingly, the first processors based on the new architecture have already been taped out and will be released commercially this year.

For many years Loongson's processors relied on different versions of the company's LoongISA architecture, which were subsets of the MIPS64 architecture. This approach allowed

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What Are HBM, HBM2 and HBM2E? A Basic Definition

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HBM stands for high bandwidth memory and is a type of memory interface used in 3D-stacked DRAM (dynamic random access memory) in some AMD GPUs (aka graphics cards), as well as the server, high-performance computing (HPC) and networking and client space. Samsung and SK Hynix make HBM chips.

Ultimately, HBM is meant to offer much higher bandwidth, lower power consumption compared to the GDDR memory used in most of today’s best graphics cards for gaming

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AMD’s Ryzen 5 3500X Selling in US, No Longer China Exclusive

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Once a China-exclusive, AMD's Ryzen 5 3500X is now being sold as a retail chip in several online American stores. This makes the 3500X AMD's cheapest CPU to purchase amidst the shortage right now, with the Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 nowhere in sight.

Despite the chip being AMD's cheapest Ryzen 5 offering (that is still in production), it is no slouch when it


GeForce RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti, Radeon RX 6700 XT Featured in the Latest Newegg Shuffle

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Update: Today's Newegg Shuffle is now over. Here's hoping you were able to snag something!

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The Newegg Shuffle soldiers on, with today bringing us another chance to potentially buy one of the best graphics cards . Today's Shuffle has several options for GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, one GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card and one Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card.  Three of these cards also have mobo bundle


ASRock's Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula: 2.50 GHz, 21-Phase VRM & Three 8-Pin Connectors

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ASRock has introduced its fastest air-cooled graphics cards to date, the Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula 16GB. The new board carries factory-overclocked AMD's top-of-the-range Navi 21 XTX GPU (5120 stream processors) GPU that can boost to almost 2.50 GHz and backed by a sophisticated voltage regulating module (VRM).

The Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula has a 21

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