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    Urgent: PC wont turn on with PSU connected to MOBO

    Sometimes its the RAM which causes issues, please check that too. Also check for shorts especially on the motherboard.
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    Logitech Combo Touch Available for the new iPad Air and iPad Pro

    If you think these prices are expensive, Apple's own solution is $300+. I must say that iPad + Pencil offers a dramatically different workflow than MBP/MBA that some people may want to exploit. These kind of keyboard is an accessory to that workflow.
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    Logitech G Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Iconic G502 Gaming Mouse

    True. But you shouldn't need to replace the Intel supplied garbage fan either.
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    Logitech G Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Iconic G502 Gaming Mouse

    Can just solder a new switch (I changed my G102 to Kailh). Don't get hooked and start soldering all kinds of monstrosity though. Check this video as a start:
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    Why MS buying all of these Studios is bad for Gaming

    If you look at 2023 Wikipedia list you will be able to find all kinds of games in all genres. What I do not know is whether your taste in games have changed or not - have they become more discerning or exacting in their requirements? If you are looking at single player offline 3rd person non...
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    Why MS buying all of these Studios is bad for Gaming

    To understand the profitability (therefore survivability) of a game studio, I think we have to stop looking a game studio as a "perpetual company". For smaller studios, one failure can mean financial doom, for larger studios they can afford a string of failures. Faced with this constant never...
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    ASML Could Stay in the Netherlands with Further Investments and Create 20,000 New Jobs

    In the same vein, Dutch govt will need to solve the housing and power problem instead of letting "free market" dictate.
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    Noctua Introduces NH-L12Sx77 Low-profile CPU cooler

    This occupies a niche within a niche, its not going to be a volume seller.
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    Which one to choose from these 3 laptops offer?

    Based on reviews, the performance of the CPUs should be largely similar (top of the list in Notebookcheck). In terms of clock speed they will normally turbo up over and above nominal speed, depending on thermal headroom. I do think you should pick the one with best warranty support, unless you...
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    China Bans AMD and Intel CPUs from Government Systems

    I wonder if they are using this push the transition to ARM or RISC-V instead of staying with x86. It would make quite a lot of sense to move out of x86 if they are planning to forcefully sever the software side.
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    AI-Capable PCs Forecast to Make Up 40% of Global PC Shipments in 2025

    Training takes a lot of effort, running the model takes a lot less (but still a lot of effort). What's going to happen is that we will be running other workloads such as image processing and other data analytics instead of ChatGPT.
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    NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing

    Cant wait to see benchmarks. On one hand its running at the same node as its predecessors, on the other hand Nvidia has done a lot of optimisation to match workload. They are sacrificing FP64 perf to increase INT8 perf.
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    Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarked Against Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

    You are correct on all counts. However, its noted somewhere in this thread that ARM and x86 are starting to become more similar than different, and at some point the implementations of both will converge close enough that most people will go for the more efficient one (either price, power...
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    Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarked Against Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

    I am not sure why people are still so dismissive of ARM. x86 became niche before COVID. There are far more devices on ARM than x86, and we collectively spend more time on ARM devices than x86 devices. Phones, TVs, routers all use ARM instead of x86. The only holdout in x86 are legacy software...
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    Intel Gaudi2 Accelerator Beats NVIDIA H100 at Stable Diffusion 3 by 55%

    Looks like Intel needs their equivalent of TensorRT package. Wonder how long that will take to design and publish.
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