Nvidia's Mobile GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs Listed: Ampere Comes to Notebooks

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Skikk, a maker of gaming PCs from the Netherlands, has begun listing notebooks with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30-series graphics processing units inside. The laptops are said to be available in Q1 2021, which confirms a suggestion that Nvidia intends to introduce the first mobile GPUs powered by its Ampere architecture at CES in mid-January.

Skikk lists eight laptops based on Intel's 10th Generation Core CPUs equipped with a 15.6-inch


How to Create Polls in Twitch

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Adding a poll to your Twitch stream is a great way to engage with your viewers. It allows you to learn more about your community and have them engage with your gaming decisions in real-time.

For example, you might ask, "do I play the campaign or multiplayer mode?" or "should we make friends with the mercenary or hand him over to the law?" or perhaps "What should we play today?" Whatever question you choose, here

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: Heir to the Titan Throne

Our Verdict

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition takes the crown as the fastest GPU around, but at twice the price of an RTX 3080. It's blazingly fast, comes with gobs of memory, and the Founders Edition is absolutely massive … and most gamers don't need it. We discuss price, performance, availability, power, and more in our in-depth review.

For

  • Fastest current graphics card, period
  • 4K ultra at more than 60 fps
  • 8
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Adafruit Aims To Cyberdeck Your Raspberry Pi 400

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With the change of form factor, the keyboard chassis Raspberry Pi 400 introduced an interesting challenge for third party accessory makers. The GPIO, now moved to the rear of the case and rotated 90 degrees means that standard HATs and add on boards no longer fit. Companies and makers are rising to the challenge, with Pimoroni's Flat HAT Hacker being the first commercial board. Announced via Twitter , Adafruit's latest board, a Cyberpunk / Neuromancer inspired Cyberdeck Bonnet which aims

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16 Shades of Gray: 25-inch E Ink Monitor Could Ease Eyestrain

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Traditionally, E Ink displays have been used almost exclusively for ebook readers and occasionally for devices that do not need a color screen, but which could benefit greatly from low power consumption and good contrast. But there is a company called Dasung that uses E Ink for larger displays aimed at other applications. Its biggest monitor to date is the 25-inch Paperlike 253, which is expected to hit the market in 2021.

Dasung positions

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Thermaltake Toughpower PF1 650W Power Supply Review

Our Verdict

The Thermaltake Toughpower PF1 650W achieves high performance and has also a dead silent operation.

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  • Full power at 47 degrees Celsius
  • High overall performance
  • Efficient
  • Highly efficient 5VSB rail
  • Silent operation
  • Long hold-up time
  • Low inrush current with 115V
  • Fully modular
  • Adequate distance between the peripheral connectors
  • 10-year warranty

Against

  • Mediocre transient response at 12V
  • No MOV in the transient filter
  • High OCP at 3.3V
  • Not fully compatible with the newest ATX spec (2.5
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Activist Hedge Fund Calls for Intel to Spin Off Fabs

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As reported by Reuters , activist hedge fund Third Point, which reportedly owns a $1 billion stake in Intel, has penned a letter to Intel Chairman Omar Ishrak asking the company to explore "strategic alternatives," like spinning off its fabs and/or divesting itself of unsuccessful acquisitions, to address the company's recent market share losses. The hedge fund also cites an ongoing exodus of Intel's top chip designers , saying the company has a "human capital management


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Intel Alder Lake-S 16-Core CPU Shows Similar Multi-Core Performance as Ryzen 5 3600X

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Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake-S processors may be still be a far way off. But the chipmaker has already started sampling the chips to PC partners, and other engineering samples are already running in the hardware world, too. A high-end SKU (via Leakbench ) with 16 cores has seemingly broken its cover in Geekbench 5.

Alder Lake-S is a hybrid desktop processor, meaning not all cores inside the chip are made equal. The sample that

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Core i9-11900, Core i7-11700, Core i7-11700K Specs Reportedly Exposed In New Leak

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A Bilibili user (via harukaze5719 ) has posted a thread over at the Bilibili forums that expose the purported specifications of three Intel 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S processors. The chips are engineering samples that the user claims to have picked up on the black market, so final specifications will likely differ from those shown.

The first processor corresponds to the Core i9-11900, which comes

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Cyberpunk 2077 One-Click Tool Promises Up To 30 FPS Uplift

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Cyberpunk 2077, which has proven to cripple the fastest graphics cards and even punish the fastest CPUs on the market , can give low-end gaming systems a tough time. For exactly this reason, programmer CodeZ1LLa, via his Youtube channel , has released EZ Optimizer for Cyberpunk 2077 that the coder claims can help boost your gaming performance by up to 30 fps.

The tool reportedly tweaks hidden developer settings that aren't available to the end user

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