Ever since World of Warcraft Classic proved there are a lot of people willing to facemash their way through the original, most difficult portion of the game, we began to hear chatter that a follow-up might be in the works for The Burning Crusade, the first expansion pack for the popular game. Whether this was wishful thinking or potentially true has not been clear until now. Blizzard has announced The Burning Crusade Classic, arriving later this year. Features are what you’d expect. It’s The Burning Crusade, with only minor quality-of-life changes to the UI. Raid content will be introduced post-launch over a period of time, the same way Classic content was.
It looks like the reports of PlayStation 5 controller drift are real and the problem isn’t going away. According to a new analysis of the DualSense, the problem is fundamental to the design of the joystick itself. Worse, it’s not even unique. Apparently, all controllers built these days suffer from the same flaws. iFixit down the DualSense controller to analyze what might be going wrong with the failed units. We’re seeing growing reports of PlayStation 5 controllers exhibiting drift immediately after unboxing. Drift is a phenomenon where the controller constantly moves in a single direction, absent any player input commanding it to do so.
A report has been going around online that AMD CPUs are suffering much higher than normal failure rates after PC builder PowerGPU shared an alarming tweet. That tweet, which has since been deleted, claimed that the company had received 19 dead Ryzen 5000 CPUs in a lot of 320, with 3-5 failing AMD motherboards dropping into its lap every single week. 5950X failure rates, specifically, reached up to 16 percent. CPUs, generally speaking, do not fail. It’s not unknown for a CPU to die or show up dead, but a 6-16 percent failure rate would be far higher than expected.
Are you sick of hitting the dreaded forgot password button? Or maybe your biggest pet peeve these days is the notification that you’re out of storage? As we continue to spend more and more time on our computers as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, it might be time to invest in some apps and subscriptions that can help you manage all of your passwords and save your data via cloud backup. If you have too many passwords to manage, Password Boss Premium can help. This app stores and auto-fills both usernames and passwords, all you have to do is remember your one master password and Password Boss does the rest.
Nvidia has announced that it will take steps to ensure RTX 3060 GPUs wind up in the hands of gamers, not crypto miners. On Thursday, the company said it would launch a new lineup of CMP (Crypto-Mining Processor) cards, while also restricting the maximum performance of the RTX 3060 when mining Ethereum. RTX 3060 GPUs will only mine Ethereum at 50 percent of their potential hash rate due to driver-level restrictions. According to Nvidia, its new CMP cards will run at full speed. These cards lack video outputs and they offer both lower peak voltage and lower maximum core clocks, in order to improve mining efficiency.
We’re living in a perfect storm for GPU price inflation — cryptocurrency mining is on the rise, as is interest in gaming during the pandemic. There’s also a global semiconductor shortage at the moment. The result: even if you can find a high-end GPU, it’ll probably cost at least twice what it should. Nvidia hopes to combat this with the upcoming RTX 3060, which . The company has now clarified its plans, saying it to any existing GPUs. Nvidia raised eyebrows when it announced the restrictions for its next RTX video card. Using driver-level limits, the RTX 3060 will be limited to 50 percent of the usual Etherium hash rate.
Today you can take home one of Dell’s Vostro 15 5502 laptops with an Intel Core i5 processor and a remarkable discount that drops its price by more than half. There’s also a discount on Apple’s new Mac Mini powered by the company’s M1 chip, which was just released a few months ago. This high quality laptop features a polished aluminum exterior that makes the notebook highly durable and lighter than if it was made out of plastic. The system sports a fast Intel Core i5 processor and Intel’s low-power Irix Xe Graphics that can handle a little light gaming.
Is 2021 the year you learn how to code? It should be! While we all spend extra time at home due to the , it might be the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of coding. Whether you want to learn how to code as a hobby or potentially make a big career move, there are plenty of benefits to conquering coding. If you were one of the many people that lost their jobs during the pandemic, coding can help you transition to a booming industry that’s potentially very lucrative. And there’s no need to spend thousands of dollars and attend college courses, as allows you to conquer it all from the comfort of your couch.
Samsung has announced the availability of a new Aquabolt variation. Unlike the typical clock speed jump or capacity improvement you’d expect, this new HBM-PIM can perform calculations directly on-chip that would otherwise be handled by an attached CPU, GPU, or FPGA. PIM stands for Processor-in-Memory, and it’s a noteworthy achievement for Samsung to pull this off. Processors currently burn an enormous amount of power moving data from one location to another. Moving data takes time and costs power. The less time a CPU spends moving data (or waiting on another chip to deliver data), the more time it can spend performing computationally useful work.
