News of intermittent USB connectivity issues on AMD Ryzen systems broke a few weeks ago, and the company has since announced that it is investigating the widespread reports to identify the root cause. AMD has not yet produced a full fix for the issue, but in the interim, its tech support has now issued its first official advice on steps that might help resolve the situation.
The issues seem confined to Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series CPUs in 500-
The Cooler Master V850 Gold V2 is a high performance and efficient power supply, with a silent operation.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Nvidia misled investors over $1 billion in sales to cryptocurrency miners.
The lawsuit claimed that roughly 60-70% of Nvidia’s sales in China, its largest market, were to miners in 2017 and 2018. That alone might not have been an issue, but the company was accused of keeping the extent of the mining industry’s influence on its
The Razer Iskur is an impressive first foray into gaming chairs by a peripheral industry stalwart. It has some interesting ideas but falls just short of perfect execution.
Cryptocurrency Mining has become extremely popular again lately, with many people looking to optimize their existing GPUs for mining or looking to buy the best GPUs for mining . Some are even wondering how to mine on a Raspberry Pi . No matter what currency you go for, the market is extremely volatile and the costs of electricity and hardware are prohibitive for many people. You could end up losing a lot of money while dramatically expanding your carbon footprint.
But if you’ve made the decision to mine
CircuitPython, Adafruit’s enhanced fork of the MicroPython language, runs on nearly 200 different microcontroller boards, including the Raspberry Pi Pico , and it could soon become an operating system for regular (non-Pico) Raspberry Pis. While appearing as a guest on the Tom’s Hardware Pi Cast this week, CircuitPython Programming Lead Scott Shawcroft told us that he wants to create a version of the language that single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi Zero , Pi 4 and Pi
A federal jury in Waco, Texas, ruled today that Intel must pay $2.18 billion in damages to VLSI, a semiconductor design firm, for violating two of its patents. Damages for one patent violation weigh in at $1.5 billion, while the other totals $675 million. The broader case is still ongoing, though, as VLSI has sued Intel in several states, spanning California, Delaware, and Texas, for damages associated with six other alleged
Asus just announced the ProART B550-Creator, the first AM4 motherboard to come with Thunderbolt 4 support. The motherboard will be available next month with a price tag of $299.
Like its other ProART motherboards, the ProART B550-Creator arrives with a minimalistic design that features a black exterior accented by gold accents. The motherboard employs a powerful 12+2-phase power delivery subsystem that's
Cryptocurrency miners are going to have to leave Inner Mongolia. Bloomberg today reported that the autonomous region within the People's Republic of China recently banned cryptocurrency mining in an effort to reduce its power consumption in 2021.
The Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission announced the plan, which has yet to go into effect, on February 25. Bloomberg said the draft plan would ban "new digital coin projects" in addition to
As Intel slashes more CPU prices amid AMD shortages , one particularly high-end processor (that we really like) has just seen a deep $100 price cut.
For a limited time over at Best Buy, you can pick up an Intel Core i9-9900K for just $339. But hurry, it’s available for today only!