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Aug182022 by Gadgets PrimeNo Comments

Intel Factories in China Shut Down to Conserve Electrical Power

Prioritizing survival over production capacity An ongoing heatwave in Sichuan, China is already compromising chip manufacturing within its borders - while simultaneously threatening the life of Chinese citizens. Air-conditioning usage has spiked due to the severity of the heatwave - which has driven average temperatures up from the 30 degrees Celsius average typical of August towards an arid, low-humidity 40 degrees Celsius. The sudden and unexpected surge in electric power demand, alongside also record-breaking lows in precipitation, means that the water supplies feeding Sichuan's hydropower plants are proving to be insufficient, adding further strain to the situation. The heatwave driving temperatures to 60-year-highs has led to shortages so severe that local news...

Aug182022 by Gadgets PrimeNo Comments

ExpressVPN Gets a Boost on M1 and M2 Macs

Computing, News

It still works well on Intel-based Macs, too The latest version of ExpressVPN has been built to better integrate with Silicon-based Macs, resulting in several performance enhancements. If you use ExpressVPN on an M1 or M2 Mac, you should consider downloading the newest update because this one is designed to work as seamlessly as possible with Apple Silicon systems. As ExpressVPN describes it, many third-party apps have to be filtered through Rosetta 2 to run on M1 and M2 hardware, which can result in lower performance. This new update allows ExpressVPN to work in an M1 or M2 system directly without needing to pass through Rosetta first. Something the company states will improve reliability, boost performance and speed, and be less of a drain on the battery. Compared to running an...

Aug182022 by Gadgets PrimeNo Comments

The All-New System Settings in MacOS Ventura Will Frustrate You—Here’s Why

Computing, Laptop, News, Tablet

Last year, Apple's Safari update was an embarrassing disaster. This year, it's the Mac's System Settings app. In the next version of macOS—Ventura—Apple has updated the Mac's System Preferences app to resemble the Settings app on the iPhone and iPad. It's called System Settings, and right there we see the problem—why not just keep the old name or use 'Settings?' According to everyone who has commented on it, the new design is an utter mess. And it might be too late to do anything about it. "Even after five betas, MacOSVentura's System Settings are still causing headaches," software product manager Daivat Dholakia told Lifewire via email. "Apple prides itself on its sleekness, user-friendliness, and dependability. To roll this out with cut-off buttons, menu...

Aug182022 by Gadgets PrimeNo Comments

Corsair shows off next-gen SDD with incredible 10,000MB/s speeds

Computing, Gaming, News

Corsair has revealed a small teaser for its upcoming PCIe Gen5 M.2 SSD, the first of its kind from the manufacturer. Called the MP700 (a straight update from the previous Gen4 MP600 series), the new SSD supposedly features a whopping 10,000MB/s read speed, with up to 9,500MB/s sequential write speeds too. Off the back of a strong current partnership with AMD, Corsair was keen to highlight the AM5 compatibility of the new SSD, indicating that it might see a launch in September of October of this year to coincide with the release of AMD’s next generation of processors. It’s worth remembering that Intel’s Alder Lake chips already have PCIe 5.0 support, too. If it hits the projected speeds in real-world use, the MP700 will be as much as 40% faster than the most expensive PCIe 4.0 drive ...

Aug182022 by Gadgets PrimeNo Comments

Intel Raptor Lake flagship CPU may have ‘extreme performance’ mode – at a cost

Computing, News

Intel could make it easy to get the most out of the Core i9-13900K processor Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship could offer a special ‘extreme performance’ mode which really juices up the power supplied to the CPU to offer a sizeable frame rate boost. This rumor comes from a Hungarian tech website, ProHardver(opens in new tab), as spotted by VideoCardz(opens in new tab), so we’d take this with more seasoning than usually applied; but it does back up what we’ve been hearing from the grapevine elsewhere (we’ll return to that point later). ProHardver claims that the performance mode will up the ante for power usage to 350W with the Core i9-13900K, whereas the standard PL2 (power consumption at maximum boost) is set at 253W. So it’d theoretically represent a huge leap in the top level of p...