Nvidia Reportedly Revamps Ampere Silicon To Stop Ethereum Mining For Good

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According to HKEPC's report , Nvidia is ready to redeem itself after the whole anti-mining limiter fiasco with the GeForce RTX 3060 . The chipmaker is reportedly preparing a new variant of the GA106 silicon to restore the Ethereum anti-mining limiter back to its not-so-glory days.

Citing an unidentified Taiwanese graphics card manufacturer as the source, HKEPC claims that Nvidia has discontinued the GA106-300 die, which


Microsoft's Jet-Engine Flight Sim PC Probably Isn't as Loud as It Looks

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Microsoft's and Xbox are giving away a gaming PC to celebrate the Microsoft Flight Simulator's France and Benelux update, and it sure fits the game's aesthetic. The build looks like a jet engine, or at least part of one.

Putting out of mind the idea of just two-thirds of a jet engine working, you can find more details about the giveaway on the @XboxFR  Twitter account (first spotted by our friends at PC Gamer ).

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This 1440p IPS Panel From Lenovo Is Only $179

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Finding the best monitor deals often means figuring out whether you prefer a high resolution or a high refresh rate. The former will give you a prettier picture, while the latter will help make action look smoother. It’s not uncommon to find both on the best gaming monitors , but at lower costs, you sometimes have to pick one.

That’s where today’s deal on the Lenovo Q27-10 monitor comes in. This is a 144

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Parallels Desktop 16.5 Enables Windows 10 on Mac M1 at Native Speeds

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Parallels has released a new version of its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization software that features full native support for Mac computers equipped with either Apple M1 or Intel processors. The program allows users to run Windows 10 Arm Insider Preview as well as various Linux distributions on systems running the M1 SoC at native speeds.

Running Windows on Apple's Mac computers may not be a priority for most of their owners, but there are still quite a lot of users who need to run Windows


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GeForce RTX 3070 and 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, Plus CPUs Featured in the Latest Newegg Shuffle

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Update: The Shuffle has ended. Did you get selected? If so, let us know in the comments, you lucky dog!

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The Newegg Shuffle continues, with another chance to potentially buy one of the best graphics cards — or one of the best CPUs . Today's Shuffle has several options for GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, one Radeon RX 6700 XT and mobo bundle, along with AMD'


Nvidia Update Adds GPU Overclocking, OBS Noise-Cancelling

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Today Nvidia dropped a new GeForce Experience driver update, version 3.22 , and a new Game Ready Driver, version 466.11 . Both driver updates are so feature-focused that there are more features added than bugs fixed. Making this patch cycle the most exciting update we've seen from Nvidia drivers in a while.

Nvidia's AI Noise Removal Comes to OBS Studio

With the 466.11 driver, Nvidia's popular AI Noise


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SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC RISC-V Chip With 7.2 Gbps HBM3

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SiFive on Tuesday said that that its OpenFive division has successfully taped out the company's first system-on-chip (SoC) on TSMC's N5 process technology. The SoC can be used for AI and HPC applications and can be further customized by SiFive customers to meet their needs. Meanwhile, elements from this SoC can be licensed and used for other N5 designs without any significant effort.

The SoC contains the SiFive E76 32-bit CPU core(

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Imperva: Hardware Scalpers Made a Bunch of Money from 'Grinchbots' in 2020

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Imperva has revealed the extent to which hardware scalpers used "Grinchbots" to buy the precious few CPUs, GPUs, and next-generation consoles that were available during the holiday season and make well over $82 million in sales in the process.

The latest information about the prevalence of this practice arrived via the " Bad Bot Report 2021: The Pandemic of the Internet " study the company published today. Imperva said it saw a 788% increase in "bad


Radeon RX 580 Recall Scam in China: AMD Warns Customers of GPU Fraud

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Graphics card merchants (via Expreview ) are getting ever more creative in China to profit from less informed consumers. The new modus operandi consists of posing as AMD and XFX to issue a fake Radeon RX 580 recall to deceive customers to trade in their recent Radeon RX 580 purchases for a GeForce equivalent that has no cryptocurrency mining value.

Chinese dealers were spreading a phony letter that AMD and XFX were recalling Radeon RX 580 graphics cards due to

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Raspberry Pi Pico PCB Manages Temperature Sensor

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The Raspberry Pi has been a staple in DIY home automation for years, but the Raspberry Pi Pico is quickly catching up. This stylish Pico PCB comes to us from a maker named David Booth who designed it to handle input from a temperature sensor.

The module is capable of connecting to a network thanks to an Airlift WiFi Featherwing board. It's MQTT-enabled, which makes it possible to access and utilize the temperature data in real-time. The best Raspberry Pi projects

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