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Now we live in modern times. You'll need the latest and greatest for your gaming experience. Yup, spyware as an helper for performance uplift. Fantastic idea. Clever done. And Intel want that you go with the new and shiny OS from Redmond to get most out of your 200 series processors. Sure. Here's more from the modern tech world. 5090 - 5090Ti - 5090 Super and finally 5090Ti Super. What to get?🥴 Yup, not all will be released but what a sick sick tech world. May we also see an 5000 series RTX Titan on top? In short... Now you need to disable/enable ME to get the best performance to play games. Isn't that nice? Maybe a toggle switch in the OS to stop the need for going into bios or reboot every time you start a game would be smart. And for the records... Some code in the ME firmware will still run even if you disable it. Without some needed code you can't boot from what I know.. Aka Intel governments vs gamers consumers = 1-0 Many ways to make modern worse than it has to be. But the tech trend continue. I'm quite fed up of modern ways to make thing more complicated to get what you paid for.

Thanks 🙂 Not much flesh on the bone here. And aren't mc 0x114 already out in beta with not much gain? How will this give performance parity with older 14th gen chips in games? We'll see when the reviewers and gamers test with all so called performance improvement patches. As Intel mentioned in the cheat sheet... Minimum 6% performance gain... This should be enough to beat previous gen Intel chips. Is Santa Claus real? Intel vs Intel: Core Ultra 9 285K vs Core i9 14900K So, there you have it – confirmation of what we discovered when first testing the Core Ultra 285K. It's around 5% slower than the 14900K for gaming, but at times, it can be much slower than that. In terms of overall gaming performance, the 285K sits between the 12900K and 14900K, which is a decent result given how little power it uses in comparison. Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month And Intel ME (Intel's spyware) + Microsoft's latest and greatest is more important than ever... Oh My gosh. Regarding Intel's spyware "ME". Now "needed - must have" with new and modern Intel processors to function properly (see above)🤢 Why flashing newer bios with baked in ME only for testing "if better" can be an bad idea. You're stuck with the new while you want the old bios version back. Never be an guinea pig. Be sure you can get some gains (do your due dilligence) before trying new bios versions with the hope for "New has to be better". Implement ME in bios package is an bad idea. Very bad

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Mozilla Seemingly Prepares For Google Anti-Trust Lawsuit Fallout With New Search Partner Today, 00:30 Mozilla and Firefox have undergone a slew of changes of late, with the non-profit laying off its entire advocacy team and subsequently working with a famous design house on a branding overhaul. At the same time, Google is facing a monumental US antitrust lawsuit that could see the search giant prohibited from paying to be the default search engine on a variety of platforms. Speculation until now has predicted that if Google loses the antitrust case, it would deprive Mozilla and Firefox of a massive revenue stream, effectively ending the Firefox browser as we know it.

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1441 released 12/18/2024

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1441 released 12/18/2024

Nvidia Control panel (cpanel) as standalone. Portable version. Click and run. No need for the new, fancy and modern. The forum is slow to respond today. Also the same yesterday but worse @Reciever AVX512 throttling, clock stretching or something completely different?! – 9800X3D with up to 35% less performance at the same clock speed | Investigativ Please always make sure that you don't set a static core voltage (Vcore) above 1.3 V! Otherwise, your sensitive 9800X3D CPU, of which there are already far too few examples, could potentially die.

New is always better.... Also Intel's brand new app for their GPU's have exactly same problems. We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app Yup, what is wrong with Nvidia? Is xx60 cards the new xx50 now ? 8 GB vram. Yet again. Of course, none know it for sure before the release.... But everyone should know how Nvidia run their business. NVIDIA RTX 5060 Series Ti Gets 16 GB VRAM, RTX 5060 GPU 8 GB GDDR7

Yep, the native performance is comparable and even can beat similar priced 2 years old (yet more expensive) Nvidia and AMD card. Just sad they are fiddled with some weirdo problems. Forget overclocking for now. If and when Intel will fix it... I don't know. But the need for iGPU or a spare GPU to come on track again with the Battlemage GPU (back to working state) isn't an great experience. And this become the norm everytime you want to push the GPU above it's default settings. I have no time for this. So once again a unfinished product from Intel. The modern tech trend continue. Intel has throttled Arc Battlemage graphics: they physically support PCIe 5.0, but function as PCIe 4.0 https://elchapuzasinformatico.com/2024/12/intel-capado-arc-battlemage-pcie-5a-pcie-4/ Second rant for the weekend.... Greed. All is about greed and maximize profit margins. But I'm sure Intel will regret this move. Almost no chips in some stores (region depent) doesn't mean Intel seell many of their Arrow Lake chips. They simply aren't an option. Neither for gaming or for performance jockey's with desktop builds. The lack of AL chips for desktops is most likely because Intel will try save their Joke Book market share. I think the fact that HyperThreading is missing makes this product worse than if it had it. Again, I'm not an architect, but I would assume this choice was based on cost. Adding complexity adds cost to an already expensive, TSMC-made product, and perhaps a choice was made for a little extra margin vs a little extra performance. I really hope we don't keep seeing companies trending toward decisions like these from the top down. If hyperthreading was there, I am positive reviews would generally be much more complimentary, and the chip would easily be a more viable contender in the space, and we could put Raptor Lake fully behind us. There you have it. Maximize profits and at same time try to save their best milking cow (laptop market).

Battlemage is a lot better card than the old Arc. So Intel have improved a lot and finally can compete in low/mid end. Intel Arc B580 “Battlemage” Graphics Cards Review Roundup

Windows 11 KB5048667 install fails, performance, gaming issues. Windows 11 24H2 affected Widowslatest.com - December 13, 2024 Windows 11 KB5048667 is turning out to be a disaster for some people, and we can confirm that there's an issue where the update could fail to install. It’s also making some PCs run slower than usual, and we think it’s related to a bug with the CPU scheduler in the Windows 11 Patch Tuesday.

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1440 released 12/11/2024

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1440 released 12/11/2024

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1440 released 12/11/2024 You have to be an moron if you trust Microsoft! Hence you need software as etc the one above. Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

Hmmm. Is this what gamers have waited for the last month? One thinfg for sure... Intel will release security patches at the end of Arrow Lake life. And we all know what to expect right before relase of a new gen chips. Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains Rumor has it that the upcoming 0x114 microcode is the long-awaited one-stop fix for Arrow Lake, which has leaked online. While we don't recommend flashing microcodes from third-party sources, a few brave souls at Overclock.net did that just for experimentation, and to their dismay, the gains were non-existent. As a user reported, his Core Ultra 9 285K paired with the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF saw a 6% drop in Cinebench R23 MT scores because of low clock speeds. Here's yet another failure. The Cpu and the MB use 3x 8 pins connectors nowadays. With this (white) fancy PSU you have abysmal 3x 8 pin + the modern 12+4 pin connector for nvidia graphics cards. So no love for coming AMD and Intel graphics cards. How stupid is that? And you can't power up your nvidia graphics cards if it have 8 pin connectors. Modern means better. Because it's newer and hence has to be better? This type PSU's should have come with only 8-pins connectors instead for the 12+4 pin connector. Just put with 8-pins to 12+4 pin adapter cable. How stupid can some (design) engineers be? GameMax, an emerging brand of PC gaming components including gaming cases and power supply units, proudly announces the GS SFX Gold Series power supply GameMax Introduces GS SFX Gold Series PSU with ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 Standards And who'm would power up the CPU this way? Yes you get an pigtail (4 + 4 Pin) ATX 12V Power cable for powering the Cpu but I don't like this sorts of cheapo made design solution. Ans same idiotic design idea for the more powerful 850W models. Gamemax.... Yup the prefered PSU. For some newer Nvidia graphics cards.

Yup. Thermal Conductivity numbers at 130 W/m-K is more as a scam fake number. More of the higher conductive matrial Indium won't make magic if you know that Indium can't reach above 86W/mK as standalone metal alloy. And Indium is what's make the high conductive numbers in any Liquid metal. See also... A lie or a gray area? How to construct high thermal conductivity. Anyway. Looking forwards to results 🙂 Dang. I know why you wanted these swabs😁

And the list continue grow. When will it be better? Microsoft confirms Outlook fails to start in Windows 11 24H2 with Google Workspace Sync neowin.net · Dec 7, 2024 Microsoft confirmed another known issue in Windows 11 version 24H2. This time, it impacts Outlook, but the fix is available.

GN smells blood😬

It's hard competitoion between the YouTubers.... NZXT CEO try hard to extinguish the fire. How much is lies, I don't know. But he need to be careful or it will become worse.

Epic offers free simulator and action-adventure worth $85 This week, the Epic Games Store is offering two free games for players to claim. A well-loved simulator and an action-adventure title, normally priced at $85, can now be downloaded at no cost.

Probably all too late. Greed come at a price. 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action

Hmmm. You say the Windows replacement is getting closer😀 Here's the thing with free Linux distros. Some don't see why people avoid the orginal. Why make a copycat of Windows 11's and it's ugliness? Windows 11's start menu etc is darn awful and should never been copied for any OS. 3 free Linux distros that look and feel like Windows