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MSI Black Friday 2023 Buying Guide
MSI is going all-out for Black Friday, with deals that started as far back as the 1st of November, with many more starting today, and even more to come on the actual day itself, and throughout the month. So while it can be tricky to find all these deals, as…
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AMD 5600X to 5800X3D – I Upgraded So You (Maybe) Don’t Have To!
I will officially be middle-aged by the end of this week. Yes, I’m turning 40! – In fairness, given that I went bald at 24 and have had very little interest in music since 1989, I suspect that I’ve been middle-aged (at heart at least) for quite some time now.…
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Samsung Reveals Exynos W930 Wearable Processor
Samsung has today revealed the new Exynos W930 wearable processor keeping smartwatches ahead of the curve with improvements in performance and power saving. Exynos W930 The new Exynos W930 is equipped with the Arm Cortex-A55 dual core CPU which features speeds of 1.4 GHz providing an 18% jump over the…
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Ryzen 9 7950X3D Has Been Benchmarked in Blender & Geekbench 5
The upcoming flagship CPUs from AMD have certainly been something we’re looking forward. Previously, their X3D versions of existing chips have been a mighty upgrade, taking the existing CPU design to its absolute limits, and in quite a few instances, pushing it ahead of what Intel had to offer for…
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Motherboard Sales Dropped by 10 Million in 2022!
Earlier this week information appeared online showing that processor sales throughout the last quarter of 2022 hit an all-time low. The second time, incidentally, this had happened during the year since records were initially started in 1994. – While this was undoubtedly quite shocking news (especially for AMD and Intel)…
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AMD Locks Down the Entire Top 15 in Processor Search Engine Requests!
Since the release of the original Ryzen series in 2017, AMD has been making massive strides in winning people over (and in some cases, back to) the Red side of the processor fence. Yes, admittedly, Intel still has the overall market fairly well secured with a circa 65-70% market share…
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Research Shows Q4 2022 Was The Worst Period for CPU Sales on Record!
Compared to the misery of 2020-2021, last year was undoubtedly better in terms of general computer hardware availability. No, prices didn’t fall anywhere near as quickly as they climbed, but at least most CPUs and graphics card models were (somewhat) available to purchase without too much difficulty on the consumers’…
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ASUS Launch its New Vivobook Classic Series of Laptops
ASUS has announced the launch of three new and updated AMD-powered models in its popular Vivobook Classic series of everyday laptops: the 14-inch Vivobook 14 OLED (M1405), the 15.6-inch Vivobook 15 OLED (M1505), and the 16-inch Vivobook 16 (M1605). These new laptops deliver a stunning visual experience. Vivobook 14 OLED…
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Intel Formally Discontinues its 11th-Gen Raptor Lake Processor Series
Intel launched their 11th-gen Rocket Lake processor platform in March 2021 and overall, while not a resounding success, it did prove to be relatively popular with consumers. Albeit, given the continued retention of the heavily ageing 14nm node design, this did, once again, see another (somewhat infamous at the time)…
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Intel Leak Hints Meteor Lake is on Target for a 50% Efficiency Increase on Raptor Lake!
Despite many rumours to the contrary, Intel recently confirmed that their 14th-gen Meteor Lake desktop processors were still on track for release at some point later this year. So, with this in mind, we should probably expect it to happen around October. – In terms of the launch schedule, we…
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AMD Confirms it Restricted CPU and GPU Stock in Q4
While we consumers typically tend to love high-stock levels at low prices, there is, of course, always the position of the manufacturer to consider. Too much stock, or supply exceeding demand, typically tends to result in prices coming down rather rapidly. Something we’re undoubtedly seeing at the moment in terms…
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Steam Hardware Survey Results Show Our First Next-Gen GPU Finally Make the List!
As we’ve noted many times in the past, the Steam Hardware Survey is not the last and definitive word in consumer hardware trends. It is, however, one of the best resources we have in terms of, roughly speaking, seeing which way the hardware wind is blowing. – Following the publication…
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Intel Reportedly Set to Apply Huge Discounts to Some Alder Lake CPUs
Edit – Intel has responded directly to us here at eTeknix with the following comments: “Rumors of a price drop on Intel PC processors are incorrect. At this time, we have products from our 11th, 12th and 13th generation families that cover a range of price points, and Intel is…
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Intel Confirms 14th-Gen Meteor Lake Processors Will Debut Later This Year
Over recent months, there have been more than a few rumours swirling around the internet that Intel had been planning to slightly delay the release of its 14th-gen desktop Meteor Lake processors until some time around Q1 2024. – This was a two-part theory in firstly the exceptionally strong indication…
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Intel’s Annual Financial Report Confirms A Huge Drop in Profits!
2022 was undoubtedly a bit of an odd year for the tech world. Well, more accurately, 2020-2021 were incredibly good years for the tech industry, but ultimately, and sooner or later, that bubble did eventually have to burst. And for those of you already thinking about it, no, I’m not…
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