(Image credit: HTWingNut) You may not know it, but SSDs will lose data after a period of time if they are simply left unplugged, which can be a serious threat to your data if you store backups or precious files on unplugged SSDs. A year-two update on the how long can SSDs store data unpowered… Read more
read more...Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues
Nvidia addresses 40 black screen, monitor, and crashing issues with new RTX 5060 Ti game-ready driver
(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today launched one of the most significant bug-fixing driver updates in GeForce history with the all-new RTX 5060 Ti supported game-ready driver update. Driver version 576.02 fixes 40 gaming and general bugs, including black screen and game crashing issues that have been plaguing RTX 50 and RTX 40 series GPUs over… Read more
read more...Spotify is down for users around the world – but a fix is on the way
Panic on the streets of London… Spotify is down now for many users around the world. Spotify has confirmed there is a problem, saying: “We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!” The issues began around 1pm BST / 6pm EDT and have continued for two hours at the time of… Read more
read more...A first look at Microsoft’s new Xbox Copilot
Microsoft has started testing an early version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans tell me that employees can now access Copilot within the Xbox mobile app, and that while it looks similar to the existing Copilot chatbot, it’s designed to tap into your Xbox account. Announced last month, Copilot… Read more
read more...Spotify is down
Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the… Read more
read more...RTX 4090 returned to eBay seller with GPU and VRAM chips missing
An engineer in the U.S. recounts being “stressed out for the two weeks” after someone bought their used Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card on eBay, then had the audacity to return it with the GPU and memory chips removed from the board. Piscian19 told fellow Redditors that a “pristine” used RTX 4090, sold on… Read more
read more...Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: More VRAM and a price ‘paper cut’ could make for a compelling GPU
Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB delivers 15% more performance than its 4060 Ti 16GB predecessor, at a theoretically lower price and with a lot more memory bandwidth. It’s a good choice, assuming you can find it at a reasonable price. Pros + Great mainstream value and performance + 16GB of… Read more
read more...Sony Bravia 7 (K55XR70)
What Hi-Fi? Verdict The Bravia 7 gets much closer to the quality of Sony’s Bravia 9 flagship than expected and is, as a result, one of the best mid-range TVs available Pros + Outstanding colour and contrast + Impressively clean and convincing backlight control + Good sound quality Cons – No HDR10+ support – Only… Read more
read more...ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti TUF OC 16 GB Review
Introduction ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB is the company’s premium custom-design rendition of NVIDIA’s new performance segment GPU making its debut today. The card sports the latest generation of TUF Gaming board design by ASUS, particularly its Vented Exoskeleton architecture that relies on a heavy aluminium fin-stack heatsink, with a… Read more
read more...MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming Trio OC 16 GB Review
Introduction MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming Trio 16 GB is the company’s most premium custom design graphics card based on NVIDIA’s new performance-segment GPU coming in today. MSI’s coveted Gaming brand of graphics card transformed the company as the most sought-after custom graphics card designers. The company is launching two board variants of the… Read more
read more...Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16 GB Review
Introduction NVIDIA today launched the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, and we have with us the Palit RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16 GB. The company today introduced both the 8 GB and 16 GB memory variants of the RTX 5060 Ti, with the 8 GB variant starting at $375, and the 16 GB variant at… Read more
read more...NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti PCI-Express x8 Scaling
Introduction NVIDIA today launched the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, the latest entry to its performance-segment. You can read all about the card and how it performs in our main review of the card. This card is a direct successor to the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti before it. The RTX 3060 Ti… Read more
read more...ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prime OC 16 GB Review
Introduction ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB is among the company’s more affordable custom design renditions of the RTX 5060 Ti, priced close to its $425 baseline price. The Prime brand of ASUS represents the company’s baseline design standard, and spans a variety of product lines from the company, including motherboards, graphics… Read more
read more...MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming OC 16 GB Review
Introduction We have with us the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming 16 GB, a powerful and compact variant of the MSI RTX 5060 Ti Gaming Trio 16 GB, which we’ve separately reviewed for you today. This card comes with reduced 25 cm length, compared to the 30 cm of the Gaming Trio, but doesn’t… Read more
read more...Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti AMP 16 GB Review
Introduction Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti AMP 16 GB is the company’s fastest custom design of NVIDIA latest performance segment GPU, the RTX 5060 Ti. The AMP line of graphics cards from Zotac denotes the company’s highest factory overclock, and its most capable cooling solution for any given GPU. The RTX 5060 Ti AMP is… Read more
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