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Hardware

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.

Full story By Shawn Knight, October 27, 2022, 1:48 PM 26 comments

Hardware

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.

Full story By Rob Thubron, October 27, 2022, 5:18 AM 14 comments

Hardware

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.

Full story By Daniel Sims, September 14, 2022, 7:39 AM 26 comments

Hardware Electronics

Some Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops have an adhesive problem, the screen might fall off

Dell ensures they will repair affected models

By Matt Frusher, September 2, 2022, 12:44 PM

Tech Culture Software

Equifax sent out incorrect credit scores, blames it on "coding issue"

Millions of US consumers were affected

By Rob Thubron, August 3, 2022, 9:53 AM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: An Insult to Gamers?

FEATURE By Steven Walton, July 7, 2022, 6:07 AM TechSpot Hardware

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.

Gaming Software

Ubisoft has disabled online functionality in 91 games, some purchased content is now inaccessible

The company hasn't explained why

By Rob Thubron, April 26, 2022, 8:09 AM 26 comments

Mobile Hardware

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

By Isaiah Mayersen, April 10, 2022, 9:38 AM 26 comments

PSA: Don't Buy This Asrock Motherboard

FEATURE By Steven Walton, March 3, 2022, 6:16 AM TechSpot Hardware

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

FEATURE By Steven Walton, January 19, 2022, 9:00 AM TechSpot Hardware

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

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, December 9, 2021, 9:10 AM TechSpot Hardware

#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.

Hardware Industry

Backblaze data shows SSD failure patterns on trend with HDDs

Cloud storage provider confirms they are burning through SSDs as quickly as HDDs

By Jimmy Pezzone, October 3, 2021, 11:18 AM 16 comments

Razer Raptor 27 Gaming Monitor Review: Do Not Buy This.

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, September 14, 2021, 6:13 AM TechSpot Electronics

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.