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When Do You Need SLI and Crossfire? When shopping for a video card, you should always get the single best card you can afford, unless you are planning on running at resolution that requires SLI to play games at the desired quality (which is generally 4K at high/max quality). I started with a single GTX … Read More

Antarctica plays a crucial role in regulating ‌Earth’s climate. Most climate research into the world’s coldest, most windswept continent focuses on the surrounding Southern Ocean’s carbon dioxide absorption, or its vast, sunlight-reflecting glaciers.  A group of Australian scientists is taking a different approach. Researchers are diving deep into Antarctic moss beds, using an AI-powered edge … Read More

At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Qualcomm is taking Intel to task. The company, which released its Snapdragon X processors over the summer, is using its home turf to claim that its chips are faster than Intel’s newly released Intel Core Ultra Series 2 “Lunar Lake” processors, and suggested that Intel didn’t tell the whole … Read More

When Do You Need SLI and Crossfire? When shopping for a video card, you should always get the single best card you can afford, unless you are planning on running at resolution that requires SLI to play games at the desired quality (which is generally 4K at high/max quality). I started with a single GTX … Read More

Research suggests that exposure to blue light fools your body into thinking it’s daytime, making it harder to fall asleep if you work late on a Mac with a bright white (which has a lot of blue light) screen. To help, a macOS feature called Night Shift subtly changes the colors of the screen as … Read More

TECH ANALYSIS – When designing a modern home theater system, a common dilemma arises: Should you go for a traditional projection screen, or opt for advanced smart projector paint, especially when the system will be used in rooms with natural light?   When setting up a home theater, there are several factors to consider when … Read More

A video went viral recently when workers at an Indonesian factory recorded one of the first alleged boot-ups of a Zotac RTX 5090. Zotac has come out and officially refuted claims that the GPU in the recording was a Zotac-made RTX 5090, stating that the GPU in question is an existing RTX 4070 Ti Super … Read More

What Is The Risk When Using An AIO For CPU Cooling? Are AIO Coolers Good? First off, an AIO is short for “All In One”, which in this context refers to a liquid CPU cooler. An AIO combines the parts necessary to liquid-cool your CPU into a pre-packaged solution that you bolt on in about … Read More

TomsHardware ServeTheHome Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Notable Information There is a great deal of information on Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids, we highly recommend you read the article by STH linked above if you wish to learn more. 52 SKUs offered by Intel, with support for 1, 2, 4, and 8-socket machines. Up to 60 cores/socket. … Read More

We Apple users tend to believe that our devices usually last longer—both physically and functionally—than Windows PCs and Android smartphones. For instance, Apple’s current operating systems work on nearly all Macs, iPhones, and iPads introduced in 2018 and later, albeit with some feature loss on the oldest devices. In a white paper entitled “Longevity, by … Read More