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The original ROG Ally handheld gaming PC is barely a year old but Asus felt the need to give it a raft of much-needed updates and rename it as the ROG Ally X. Most of the internals remain the same—an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme still powers it—but the most notable changes fix just about everything that wasn't great with the initial version.
Proponents of generative AI would often have you believe that such systems are all about making serious improvements to your productivity and work. But for owners of Arc graphics cards, Intel believes you should just have fun and mess around with it. To that end, it has released a beta version of AI Playground, a free and open-source application that lets you use your Alchemist GPU to generate and edit AI images and talk nonsense with a chatbot.
For a while, there was a moment when it looked like Google was going to do what appeared to be the right thing and depreciate support for ad-tracking third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. But after much deliberation with regulators, publishers, and members of the advertising industry, the decision is being dropped in favour of giving the end user the means to «make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.»
A respected leaker has given more details about the changes AMD is going to implement for ray tracing in its next-gen RDNA 4 GPU architecture, and while some of the updates look like they will significantly boost some aspects of the algorithms, the leak also suggests that we're not going to see a comprehensive overhaul of the ray tracing units.
In last week's IT chaos, caused by a bug in an anti-hacking software package, some people thought only PCs running Windows were being hit with the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). It turns out that CrowdStrike's Falcon program has been doing the same to Linux systems, taking down client and server machines.
Modern graphics cards use lots of power and all of it is turned into heat. So if you're paying many hundreds of dollars for a powerful GPU, you'd expect no expense to be spared on the cooling system. It turns out that for many Nvidia RTX 40-series vendors, the expense is being spared and cheap, poorly applied thermal paste is leading to scorching high hotspot temperatures and performance degradation over time.
Intel has been using a hybrid design for its Core processors since it launched the 12th Generation in October 2021. Since then, we've had Core i5, i7, and i9 chips with P- and E-cores, plus low-end processors with just a couple of P or E-cores. With very little fanfare, Intel has launched a range of Raptor Lake CPUs (via HardwareLuxx) for the embedded market that have no E-cores in them—they're 100% P-cores.
If you have an AMD AM4 machine, there's pretty much only one CPU that's worth considering if you want the best for gaming—the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Except when AMD launched the Ryzen 7 5700X3D back in January of this year, you were suddenly given a tricky choice: do you go all out and get the brilliant but pricey 5800X3D or do you save yourself a fair bit of cash and get the slower 5700X3D. Well, that's precisely the conundrum we're going to solve in this review.