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Cooling will depend on the hardware you install but the D-Frame Mini’s open-air design is perfect for keeping components comfortable. Having lived with the original D-Frame for over a year now, I’m confident that the Mini-ITX version can handle most cooling needs while I wouldn’t expect it to be quite the dust magnet that some folks say it is. If you plan to have the D-Frame Mini on display, it shouldn’t require much effort to maintain....

Test entries of Intel’s Raptor Lake H-series CPUs have been spotted in Geekbench’s database, revealing some of the specs of the upcoming mobile chips. The system used for the benchmarks is labeled ‘Samsung Electronics 960XFH’, which is likely a development platform or an unreleased notebook. The benchmark scores are nothing to write home about, but that could be due to the early firmware or an insufficient cooling solution. However, the new 13th-gen processors showed significantly higher boost clocks than their predecessors....

The Core i7-5960X provided a memory bandwidth of 46.2GB/s with its 2133MHz DDR4 memory which was 14% faster than the DDR3-1600 memory of the Core i7-4960X. The L1 cache performance has been improved by 50% over the Core i7-4790K, as the Core i7-5960X hit 1.65TB/s. This also meant that the L1 and L2 cache performance of the Core i7-5960X is much faster than the 4960X.

The company says an entire industry was born to support overclocking products and its first example was 2003’s Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2, which wasn’t exactly an overclocker’s dream CPU at $700. However, in 2006 we got the Core 2 chips, which were amazing overclockers for their time and made the ‘Extreme’ series somewhat pointless at $1,000. Joe Overclocker could pick up an inexpensive E7200 and achieve Extreme Edition performance....

To quickly recap what Intel is offering this generation for high-end laptops: there’s only one Core i9 processor, the 10980HK, which brings 8 cores, 16 threads and Intel’s standard 45W TDP. There’s also 16 MB of cache, DDR4-2933 memory support and the CPU comes unlocked, meaning you can adjust the multiplier table and other values provided the laptop maker gives you that functionality. In terms of clock speeds, it’s a bit all over the place....

And all of that goodness fits into a TDP that makes the chip suitable for use in slim and light notebooks. It’s basically the fastest single-chip compute solution available with a great balance of CPU and GPU power, and that’s all been made possible through combining Intel’s solid high-end mobile CPU with a powerful GPU from AMD. A strange combination for sure and something we didn’t think we’d ever see, but here we are, it exists and it’s definitely quite compelling....

We decided to test the processors in games using settings gamers will actually use. That meant we inevitably had to run into GPU limitations when testing with Supreme Commander 2 and other titles. That said the dual-core Core i5 655K was considerably slower than the test of the pack and its clear that Hyper-Threading was not cutting it here. The same GPU limitations were faced when testing with Battlefield Bad Company 2, though again we find that the Core i5 655K is slower than the test of the pack....

The Core i7 2600K consumed 44% less power than the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition. Considering that we found the newer processor to be consistently faster, this is a truly impressive result for Intel. Above are the power consumption results with the GeForce GTX 580 removed and the onboard graphics engines enabled. The Core i5 2500K and Core i5 655K consumed a similar amount of power at both idle and under full load....

Geekbench test results from an iPhone 14 Pro (model iPhone15,3) reveal a single-core score of 1879 and a multi-core score of 4664. As MacRumors highlights, an iPhone 13 Pro with last year’s A15 Bionic chip is capable of 1707 in the single-core test and 4659 in the multi-core assessment. The test in question was uploaded on September 8 at 1:46 a.m. Put another way, the A16 Bionic is roughly 10....

The touch-based stand-ins would leverage Apple’s Taptic Engine, a haptic technology that uses vibrations to simulate physical button presses. The implementation would be similar to the home button on the iPhone 7 or the trackpad on MacBooks. If true, Apple would be looking at increasing the number of Taptic Engines used in each iPhone Pro from one to three. Suppliers that provide the parts for Apple including Luxshare ICT and AAC Technologies would no doubt benefit from the extra orders....

Then the second generation (Sandy Bridge) graphics changed all that by including the GPU on-die, meaning that it’s also built using the same 32nm process as the CPU. Even though both are now under the same roof, the GPU is still independent of the CPU. It features its own clock domain, meaning that it can be clocked independently and can be powered down as needed. This same design principle has been used for the Ivy Bridge architecture, Intel has simply added more horsepower....

Light from the protostar leaks out to illuminate cavities created as material is ejected from the incubating star where it collides with surrounding matter. This is illustrated in Webb’s observation as blue and orange clouds. Blue clouds represent areas where the dust is thinnest, and orange pockets signify regions where the dust is thicker and less blue light is able to escape. The upper central region features bubble-like shapes which are due to sporadic ejections, or stellar “burps....

Lenovo ThinkPad T410 The latest revision of the popular T-series ThinkPad brings new dedicated and integrated graphics options, along with Intel’s latest Core processors, to the same sturdy and well-built package that Lenovo fans have come to know and love. As expected from a business machine, the ThinkPad T410 has a full set of ports and plenty of enterprise-oriented features, including an optional fingerprint reader and Smart Card. The internal roll cage design helps protect the notebook from damage, while an accelerometer sensor will shut the hard drive in the event of a drop to keep your data safe....

The 12.5" widescreen display is a nice change from the glossy screens that have crowded the market. The resolution used is more than acceptable and color reproduction was where it should be. Horizontal viewing angles were good as well, but the vertical angles left a bit to be desired. Lenovo has traditionally posted high marks with their keyboards and the IdeaPad U260 is no different. The layout and key sizes could be tweaked a bit for perfection, but everything else seems to be spot on....

Intel’s Dual Core Atom N550 is just now starting to hit the market but early reports are only showing a 20% or so increase in performance over single core Atom chips. Fortunately, other options are available, like the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e that we will be taking a look at today. Lenovo describes the X100e as something in-between a netbook and a budget ultraportable, both in terms of pricing and performance output....

This year’s LG gram laptops—going on sale now—have upgraded to the latest 12th-generation Intel processors over the 11th-generation CPUs in last year’s models. They also feature faster memory and storage, moving from DDR4 to DDR5 RAM (with a new 32GB option) and making the NVMe m.2 SSDs PCIe-4. Dedicated graphics might also come to the 2022 gram series. Like last year, all models use Intel Iris Xe and Intel UHD integrated graphics, but LG’s April unveiling mentioned optional 4GB Nvidia RTX 2050s for some light gaming with ray tracing and DLSS....

A decade later, Lian Li is still making great cases but they aren’t the only premium enclosure vendor on the block. With stiff competition from the likes of Silverstone, Corsair, NZXT and several others, does Lian Li still have what it takes to remain relevant in the ever-changing PC market? Today we’ll be looking at the Lian Li PC-V2120A, a luxury full tower chassis that supports most standard motherboard form factors and also EVGA’s exotic HPTX format....

Recent reports from Intel laptop users running Linux Kernel 5.19.12 describe “white flashing” on their screens. A Linux engineer found that the issue could ruin the LCD, urging users to immediately roll back to an earlier iteration. The critical flaw prompted developers to issue a quick update. The problem appears to originate from a faulty Intel graphics driver, which Linux kernel engineer Ville Syrjäl describes as a bad panel power sequencing delay....

In cloudBit to web mode, you can use the hardware to communicate with web services and software. For example, a button press can trigger an SMS, a tweet or even log data into a spreadsheet. Configured in web to cloudBit mode, data from the web can be sent down to your littleBits hardware. An example of this would be keeping a tally of each Instagram like using the number module....

The front bezel of the Titan 17 features a 35mm ExpressCard and an infrared sensor on the left and a battery / power indicator on the right. Moving to the right side of the system we find four audio jacks: line-in, S/PDIF-out & surround-out combo, microphone and headphone. Additionally there are three USB 2.0 ports and a security lock slot. The back of the notebook consists of a DC-in power jack and multiple ventilation slots....