Acer Deal Drops 1440p, 144Hz Gaming Monitor to $300

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Want a curved monitor with a little bit of everything? Acer’s EI272UR Pbmiiipx curved 1440p monitor can hit an impressive 144 Hz and is on sale for $299.99 on Newegg . That’s$50,off it’s typical $349.99 price, and will also net you AMD FreeSync and built-in speakers.

The Acer EI272UR features four different

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DIY Synthesizer Uses a Raspberry Pi to Make Your Next Beat

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If you're looking for a fun, music-based Raspberry Pi project, check out this Pi-powered granular synth called noLoop . Created by industrial designer Niles Fromm, it's built on top of a Raspberry Pi and features a handmade case with a screen for visual output.

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AMD B550 Motherboards With PCIe 4.0 Should Still Be Easy on Wallets

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AMD B550 motherboards will be available starting June 16, 2020. Retailers should be stocking their shelves by now, and some have already posted the new motherboards on their online stores. Hardware investigator @momomo_us spotted some B550 listings from Interconnect IT Solutions , a distributor in Australia.

Keep in mind that we should take preliminary listings with a healthy dose of salt, since some retailers commonly


AMD RDNA-Infused Samsung SoC Benchmarks Obliterate Galaxy S20 Graphics

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Last summer, news broke that AMD was partnering with Samsung to license its RDNA graphics for use in smartphones. Since then, it had pretty much been radio silence on the topic, until a thread recently spawned on the clien.net forums with benchmark figures, as spotted by Twitter user @Kaz9837 .

According to the thread's author, the RNDA-Exynos combo SoC put down some serious performance numbers in the GFXBench test, as you can see in the table


Microsoft Shifting Windows 10X to Single Screen Devices (Update)

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Update, May 4 12:22 p.m. ET : Microsoft confirmed in a blog post that Windows 10X will debut on single-screen devices.

"With Windows 10X, we designed for flexibility, and that flexibility has enabled us to pivot our focus toward single-screen Windows 10X devices that leverage the power of the cloud to help our customers work, learn and play in new ways," Windows head  and chief product officer Panos Panay


New 13-inch MacBook Pros Get Magic Keyboard, 10th Gen Intel CPUs

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Apple announced this morning that it is refreshing its lineup of 13-inch MacBook Pros with its magic keyboard feature and doubled SSD storage capacity across all models, as well as select new models that feature Intel’s 10th Gen processors.

MacBook Pro (13-inch) Preconfigured Models
Price$1,299.00$1,499.00$1,799.00$1,999.0
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Nvidia Trademark Filing Looks Like the First Ampere-Based Computer

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In less than two weeks, Nvidia will host its GTC keynote, where we're hoping to hear more about Ampere. But while we're waiting, we're already seeing hints of the next-gen graphics architecture in a filed trademark for the DGAX A100, as spotted by hardware leaker @Komachi Ensaka .

The most noteworthy part of this name is A100. The name falls in line with the two most recent Tesla GPUs


How to Fix Raspberry Pi's 'Cannot Currently Show the Desktop' Error

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It’s a truly frustrating error you may encounter when you try to connect to your Raspberry Pi remotely using VNC. After you’ve done a Raspberry Pi headless install , you try getting remote access to the desktop environment, but VNC viewer (or some other client) gives you a black screen and with the message “Cannot currently show the desktop” on it.

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MSI Teases Z490 Gaming Motherboard With Integrated EKWB Monoblock

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MSI has banded together with watercooling expert EK Water Blocks (EKWB) to incorporate the latter's monoblock on the upcoming MPG Z490 Carbon EK X motherboard.

The details on the MPG Z490 Carbon EK X's monoblock are still a bit slim, but it appears to hail from EKWB's Momentum series. If this variant is like any other from that family, it should be manufactured from nickel-plated

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Report: Intel Alder Lake-S CPUs to Drop Into New, Taller Socket

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We've hardly had a moment to catch our breath since Intel formally announced the Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs , but new rumors are already streaming in about future Intel products. The latest claims Alder Lake-S chips will drop into a new socket known as LGA1700.

The information comes courtesy of the Taiwanese lit-tech , where the company listed a product entry for an LGA1700 interposer and noted that it is for