Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 19/01/24

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super: everything we know

Now that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is officially inbound following its announcement at CES 2024, the consumer graphics scene is buzzing about Nvidia's next major GPU launch and how it will stack up against the current field of enthusiast-grade Nvidia and AMD

Best Gaming Microphones 2024

Whether you're chatting with teammates or streaming on Twitch, these are the best gaming microphones to buy in 2024

Intel's German fab will be most advanced in the world and make 1.5nm chips, CEO say

Intel's CEO expects Magdeburg fab to be the most advanced fab in the world when it comes online.

RTX 4070 Ti Super is right on the RTX 4080's tail — new OpenCL and Vulkan benchmarks show less than a 10% margin between them

Preliminary GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super benchmarks have emerged before its January 24 launch. It appears to be right on the heels of the 4080, and decently ahead of the vanilla 4070 Ti, based on early results.

Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report

Microsoft has a number of new minimum specification levels lined up for AI PCs, and sources indicate that Windows machines certified to run Copilot will need 16GB RAM and 40 TOPS compute performance.

ASUS Unveils USB4 Add-In-Card, Featuring Dual USB4 Type-C Ports & 60W Power Delivery

ASUS launched its USB4 Add-In-Card, featuring support for the latest connection standard along with 60W power delivery. ASUS Expands The "Confined" Portfolio of USB4 AICs, Competing Directly With MSI

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU Benchmarks Leak: Up To 10% Faster Vs 4070 Ti, Almost Matches RTX 4080

Benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPER GPU have been leaked & its about as fast as a RTX 4080. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU Benchmark Leak Shows It's 10% Faster Than 4070 Ti Non-SUPER The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU is going to target

YouTube hasn't stepped up its anti-ad-blocking activity, you're using too many ad-blockers

A viral Reddit video shows YouTube preventing page loading entirely for users with ad-blockers, but it turns out that might be because users are trying to use more than one ad-blocker.

Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ HAMR platform targets 30TB HDDs and beyond

Seagate unveils HAMR HDD platform for 30TB+ HDDs with new media, new heads, and a new controller.

Nvidia's technically Game Ready driver supports new RTX 4070 Super and Pokemon-esque survival game 'Palworld'

Nvidia's new game-ready driver adds support for the RTX 4070 Super, which launched today, as well as open-world survival monster-collecting game Palworld.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been delayed to September 5th

GSC Game World's highly anticipated release, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, is now facing yet another delay, meaning fans will now have to wait a bit longer for the game. Originally slated to release in Q1

Intel 300 CPU benchmarks unsurprisingly show dual-core CPUs struggling in 2024

Although Intel's branding for its dual-core CPUs has changed, benchmarks for the 300 CPU show that the performance is still the same.

Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super Aero OC Review

Following on from our review of Nvidia's RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition yesterday, today we can present reviews of two partner cards. This article is focused on the Gigabyte Aero OC, but we also have a

AVerMedia Unveils HDMI 2.1 Video Capture Card With Enhanced Features & Performance

AVerMedia has unveiled a new HDMI 2.1 PCIe video capture card, targeted to provide the "ultimate streaming experience". AVerMedia Makes Strides In The Video Capture Industry With Their New Video

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU Gets Price Drop To $749 US To Tackle $799 US NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

AMD has silently started dropping the prices of its Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" GPUs to compete against NVIDIA's SUPER family & the RX 7900 XT is the first to see this pricing update with a new MSRP set at

Google updates Chrome Incognito Mode disclaimer in wake of $5 billion data collection lawsuit

Google Chrome Incognito Mode disclaimer gets updated as the firm recently agreed to pay a huge $5B settlement for tracking users without explicit consent and won’t want to pay any more

Linux dev delivers 6% file system performance increase – says ‘it was literally a five minute job’

Jens Axboe, the developer of IO_uring for Linux, delivers software patches that provide a 6% file system performance increase – says the coding ‘was literally a 5 min job’

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super review: Boosted clocks and core counts for the same $599 as the vanilla 4070

The RTX 4070 Super delivers exactly what you'd expect from a mid-cycle update: more performance and better bang for the buck. It lands between the 4070 and 4070 Ti, closer to the latter but taking over the

ASUS Rolls Out AGESA 1.1.0.2a BIOS Firmware For X670E Motherboards, Offers Improved AMD Ryzen 8000G Support

ASUS has started rolling out a more toughened up AGESA 1.1.0.2a BIOS for its X670E motherboards in preparation for AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs. ASUS's Latest X670E Motherboard BIOS Offers AGESA 1.1.0.2a

Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Review

Hot on the heels of its announcement at CES 2024, today we can present our review of Nvidia's RTX 4070 Super GPU. Offering 22% more cores than the original RTX 4070 while arriving at the same price

Microsoft introduces Copilot Pro subscription for $20 per month, runs across your devices and uses GPT-4 Turbo

Microsoft's Copilot Pro, a $20 monthly subscription, will provide access to more features like a GPT builder and GPT-4 Turbo, as well as enhanced image generation.

Fortnite’s total playtime beat COD, FIFA, GTA and Roblox combined

2023 was a record-breaking year for Epic Games and Fortnite, with the battle royale-turned ’metaverse’ title seeing waves of growth throughout the year. Despite this, the massive surge in players during

AMD Next-Gen Ryzen Zen 5 “Granite Ridge” CPUs Reportedly Enter Mass Production, Coming To AM5 Later This Year

AMD's next-generation Ryzen CPUs codenamed Granite Ridge and powered by the Zen 5 core architecture have reportedly entered mass production. AMD's Next-Gen Ryzen CPUs Enter Mass Production: Zen

ASUS launches a range of new technologies at CES 2024

It was one of the smaller ASUS showings that we have seen at CES in recent years, but the area was still packed with new products. Here we look at those on show – together with some of the revelations we

Premier memory diagnostic tool now supports live RAM settings on all Intel systems and early ECC support - Memtest86+ hits v7

Memtest86+ is an open-source memory diagnostic tool, and the latest v7 update supports live RAM settings for Intel CPUs from 1st to the current 14th Gen Core processors. It also includes preliminary ECC

Premier memory diagnostic tool now supports live RAM settings on all Intel systems and early ECC support - Memtest86+ hits v7

Memtest86+ is an open-source memory diagnostic tool, and the latest v7 update supports live RAM settings for Intel CPUs from 1st to the current 14th Gen Core processors. It also includes preliminary ECC

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER, 4080 SUPER GPUs Listed: $50-$100 US Premium For Custom Designs, FE Models at MSRP

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER, & 4080 SUPER GPUs have been listed online in custom & FE variants at MSRP & premium prices. Several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 4070 Ti

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