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If you’re thinking about getting a massive upgrade for your home theater setup, this may be the nudge that you need — Best Buy’s $350 discount for the 85-inch TCL 4-Series 4K TV, which brings its price down to $950 from its original price of $1,300. You won’t always come across TV deals for a screen of this size for less than $1,000, so if you’re interested, it’s highly recommended that you add it to your cart and check out as fast as you can as the offer may get sold out very soon. Why you should buy the 85-inch TCL 4-Series 4K TV TCL is one of the best TV brands in the market because of the value that its products provide to its customers, and that’s certainly on full display with the TCL 4-Series 4K TV. There’s something about an 85-inch screen in your living room that will never get old, though you’ll want to check out our guide on what size TV to buy first if you’ve got enough space for it. If you do, you’ll enjoy watching your favorite content with sharp details … [Read more...] about Best Buy sale drops the price of this 85-inch TV under $1000 | Digital Trends

PCIe 5 NVMe SSDs won't take off until the second half of 2024, predicts Phison CEO K.S. Pua. According to a report published by DigiTimes , Pua admits that the next generation of SSDs will most likely be overshadowed by their predecessors — PCIe 4 SSDs — for the next year or so. The PCIe 5 standard, introduced for consumers with the launch of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 platforms, aims to provide a significant boost for bandwidth-hungry components such as graphics cards and storage devices. We've seen the best PCIe 4 SSD drives , which are capable of 7GB/s transfers, totally eclipsed by the first commercial PCIe 5 samples — the Sabrent Rocket X5 is touted to achieve 14GB/s. As the newest PCIe generation devices appear to be living up to the promise of doubled bandwidth/transfer speeds (when using a capable controller and NAND Flash combo) you might wonder why modern PC platform upgraders aren’t swapping in PCIe 5 SSDs as soon as possible. There … [Read more...] about Phison CEO Expects PCIe 5 SSD Market to Remain Niche Until 2024

There are loads of compact modern workstations that pack quite capable CPUs, but at the same time they lack the space to accommodate a standard high-performance workstation-grade graphics card. That typically limits them to entry-level GPUs with mediocre performance. For those that want a compact SFF workstation with more graphics oomph, Nvidia has introduced a new ProViz-oriented RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation (opens in new tab) graphics card. It's one of the more interesting offerings in the recent years, packing a high-end GPU into a low-profile form-factor, with a power consumption of just 70W. RTX 4070 Ti but with fewer active cores, and the boost frequency gets capped at around 1560 MHz to lower total board power. On the other hand, the graphics card comes with 20GB of GDDR6 memory with ECC that connects to the GPU using a 160-bit interface, so lots of memory for workstation use. video encoding performance and quality in our recent roundup of GPUs. The GA104 chip in this … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Tiny RTX 4000 SFF 20GB Offers RTX 3070 Performance at 70W

YouTuber Voultar has shared a guide on using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, as a tool to unbrick the Nintendo Wii U. The fix remedies an apparent corruption of the flash memory used in Nintendo's now 11-year-old console. According to Nintendo, the errors (160-0101 and 160-0103 )  relate to either a system version being out of date or system memory corruption. The corruption is said to brick the machines, making them unusable. In Voultar's video they seek to better understand this issue and have purchased five bricked Wii U's for testing. To attempt the fix, Voultar used a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico to repair the "Title ID" which is corrupted in the Wii U's memory. This doesn't necessarily mean that all of the memory is corrupt, rather the data that tells the Wii U where data is stored has been corrupted. The software side of the project uses GaryOderNichts UDPIH (USB Descriptor Parsing Is Hard) project . This software exploits a bug with the USB … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Pico Unbricks Nintendo Wii U

With the introduction of the non-K 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPU lineup, Intel started to mix and match Raptor Lake and Alder Lake dies into its latest generation of Intel Core CPUs. However, how much faster Raptor Lake versions might be over Alder Lake counterparts remained a mystery until now. HWCooling.net has acquired Alder and Raptor Lake versions of the i5-13400F CPUs and benchmarked them. It appears the performance gap is almost non-existent, with a 5% performance difference at best between the two versions in real-world, synthetic, and gaming benchmarks. We've known for a while that Intel would reuse its Alder Lake CPU architecture with some of its latest 13th Gen non-K Raptor Lake processors to improve yields and reduce waste. In the case of the i5-13400F, Intel accomplished this strategy by re-purposing i9-12900/12900K dies into i5-13400 CPUs by disabling some of the P-cores and the CPU cache. According to HWCooling, the Raptor Lake version goes by … [Read more...] about Raptor and Alder Lake Flavors of Intel’s Core i5-13400F Perform About the Same