Motherboard software bug can accidentally kill AMD Ryzen X3D CPUs
A license to kill
Latest Windows 11 update is causing slow SSDs & WiFi connections, BSoD, and more
Would you really expect anything else?
Silicon Valley Bank collapses in biggest American bank failure since 2008 financial crisis
Update: The US government moves to guarantee all SVB's deposits
AMD admits to restraining chip supply to keep higher CPU and GPU prices
"We undershipped in Q3, we undershipped in Q4," Su told investors
In context: Gamers have been lamenting about the high prices of graphics cards for what seems like forever. We all got excited when crypto mining became obsolete, just knowing that we were finally going to see prices come down, but for the most part, they haven't. The latest GPUs are still out of reach for the average consumer, and even older cards are holding their value.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 8GB: Why You Should Avoid It
Although it's true that the 8GB and 12GB variants of the GeForce RTX 3060 are based on the same silicon, the changes go beyond memory capacity and the 8GB RTX 3060 is always going to be slower.
Poorly manufactured adapter responsible for melting Nvidia RTX 4090 cables, report claims
A very bad solder job
A hot potato: As Nvidia continues to investigate incidents of burning and melting power adapters that come bundled with its new RTX 4090 graphics card, the team over at Igor's Lab believes it has found the culprit. According to the publication, the issue isn't the 12VHPWR connection itself but rather, the quad 8-pin to 16-pin adapter distributed by Nvidia. Specifically, whoever manufactured the adapter performed a very poor soldering job.
Newegg refunds customer who received RTX 4090 box filled with weights
Gamers Nexus offered to buy it
WTF?! Paying one-and-a-half thousand dollars for a graphics card is a big decision, but those concerns often vanish when you're enjoying blistering framerates at high resolutions. What will give you buyer's remorse, however, is opening an RTX 4090 box and finding it filled only with weights. Luckily for the person involved, seller Newegg has given them a full refund.
Backblaze data shows SSDs have lower failure rates than HDDs
The big picture: A key selling point of solid state drives is that they are less failure-prone than HDDs. However, data from recent years began to cast doubt on that assumption, but at least one new long-term analysis shows this might prove correct as time marches on.
Some Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops have an adhesive problem, the screen might fall off
Dell ensures they will repair affected models
Equifax sent out incorrect credit scores, blames it on "coding issue"
Millions of US consumers were affected
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: An Insult to Gamers?
The GeForce GTX 1630 is an utter embarrassment if marketed as a gaming graphics card. We don't see a single redeeming feature to speak of and therefore should be completed ignored.
Ubisoft has disabled online functionality in 91 games, some purchased content is now inaccessible
The company hasn't explained why
Mobile carriers halve the price of the Galaxy S22 in South Korea after throttling issues surface
Samsung is facing a lawsuit and a government inquiry
PSA: Don't Buy This Asrock Motherboard
In testing new Intel B660 motherboards for an upcoming VRM roundup, we felt compelled to stop and look at the Asrock B660M-HDV, only because Asrock is at it again, misleading consumers with a garbage product.
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review: A Bad, Really Bad Graphics Card
How to start this review... this thing is so bad, it's really spoiled the mood for me. In short, this is the worst GPU release since I can remember, and I've been doing this job for over two decades.
5 Signs Your Storage Drive is About to Fail
#ThrowBackThursday Like all electronic devices, PCs don't last forever, and the parts inside them will eventually fail. While it's easy to replace a broken device, the same can't be said for the data stored in your machine.
Backblaze data shows SSD failure patterns on trend with HDDs
Cloud storage provider confirms they are burning through SSDs as quickly as HDDs
Razer Raptor 27 Gaming Monitor Review: Do Not Buy This.
Today we're taking a deep look at the Razer Raptor 27 and (spoiler alert) this is definitely not a gaming monitor we can recommend. Read on as we comprehensively tear this ridiculously overpriced display to shreds.
Gigabyte finally gets around to posting RMA portal for explosive PSUs
You can now get a refund or exchange on Gigabyte's faulty PSUs
Samsung is swapping parts in their 970 Evo Plus SSDs and sabotaging performance
You're not always getting what you pay for
Western Digital caught swapping lower-grade NAND into budget SSD
Not so solid state after all
Gigabyte releases a statement on failing (and exploding) power supply models
You should probably return your GP-P850GM or GP-P750GM power supply
Dead Startup Toys are miniature versions of failed startups
Miniature versions of your favorite failed startups