$5,000 Corsair pre-built keeps on frying Intel CPUs due to lack of BIOS update, tech alleges — kills three Intel Core i9 chips because latest version still doesn’t have fix for Intel crashing issues
A YouTuber and computer technician went on their channel to complain about Corsair’s pre-built, as his customer went back to his shop three times in the past year just to RMA the Intel Core i9-14900K on their $5,000 gaming PC. According to Matthew Wieland of Matt’s Computer Services, he is certain the processor on the gaming PC is suffering from instability after he ran several tests on both the motherboard and CPU.
Apple unveils M5 chip with 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU — company says 3nm chip offers 4x peak GPU performance over M4 for AI, 45% graphics uplift
Cupertino just launched its 5th-generation Apple silicon, the M5 chip, with the company saying that it has embedded a neural accelerator in each GPU core, allowing it to run AI workloads much faster. Aside from that, Apple says that the base M5 chip now has a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, giving the newer processor two extra cores in both the graphics and general compute departments compared to the previous generation’s entry-level SoC.
Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed ‘Intel x86 RTX SOCs’ for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal
In a surprise announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together, Nvidia and Intel announced today that the companies will jointly develop multiple new generations of x86 products together — a seismic shift with profound implications for the entire world of technology.
V-Color announces 2TB RDIMM kits for Threadripper Pro 9000 — 256GB modules promise stability at absurdly high RAM capacities
V-Color has announced its newest line of OC RDIMM DDR5 products, now offering registered DIMMs up to 256GB in capacity. Designed specifically for use with the new AMD Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series CPU family, kits of the new RAM have been tested to support as much as 2TB of memory in a single system.
Next-gen Intel and AMD CPUs get AIDA64 support — AMD Zen 6 and Intel Wildcat Lake referenced in latest version
Codenames of two upcoming CPU architectures have been implemented into AIDA64’s latest version. Version 7.70.7500 implements preliminary support for AMD’s Zen 6 and Intel’s Wildcat Lake architectures. Zen 6 is AMD’s successor to Zen 5. The new architecture is rumored to finally improve Ryzen’s CCD core count from eight cores to 12 cores for the regular cores (not the “c” cores).
Intel’s new ‘no frills, just thrills’ budget gaming CPU leaked — Intel Core 5 120F finally brings Bartlett Lake to gaming rigs
A new budget gaming processor (via momomo_us), the Intel Core 5 120F, has appeared online. It is thought to be based on the upcoming Bartlett Lake architecture. According to the image shared by popular hardware leaker, the Core 5 120F features six P-Cores, with a max turbo frequency of 4.5 GHz, while dropping all E-Cores.