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Arbiter Polar 65, A Keyboard With Hall Effect Magnetic Switches

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:15:51 +0000

Move over linear switches, and mechanical switches head back to the shop because the Hall Effect has come to keyboards. The Arbiter Polar 65 has hot swappable 36g linear Hall Effect switches…

Dan Clark Audio’s New E3 Closed-Back Headphones

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:24:35 +0000

If you laugh at the $200 in ear monitors which are so popular right now and can't stand the sound of closed back headsets that cost a mere $500 then you are…

Apple To Allow Some Broken Parts To Be Replaced On Some Models

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:17:22 +0000

If you have a broken iPhone then the recent news from Apple might cheer you up, but not necessarily. Apple has agreed to permit at least some parts on a broken phone…

Star Wars Outlaws – Scoundrels Only, No Nerf Herders

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:18:16 +0000

If you want to jabber with Jabba or collude with the Crimson Dawn then Star Wars Outlaws is just your kind of game. Hang out with the major players in the underworld,…

Got An Old D-Link NAS Device? Dump It Just Like D-Link Has!

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:50:42 +0000

There are four models of D-Link NAS, all of which have hit end of service, which should definitely be immediately disconnected if you have them attached to anything. All four have a…

CORSAIR M75 WIRELESS Lightweight RGB Gaming Mouse Quick Review

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:57:08 +0000

Corsair's latest wireless mouse, the M75 WIRELESS which the company sent over for this review, is an understated-looking product with a modest RGB implementation and - more importantly - an ambidextrous design.

This…

Getting Into IoT Is A RISC-V Business Move

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:42:05 +0000

Imagination Technologies is hoping to snag some marketshare from ARM with their new APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU, designed to power all those smart appliances we love to hate. The cores of the APXM-6200…

Podcast #767 – Intel Foundry Loses Billions, XZ Backdoor, Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Case, SSD Pricing, RX 550 or April Fool’s?

PCPer Staff — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:00:09 +0000

We aren't too proud of this technological terror we've constructed, because the ability to record a podcast is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz. Intel Foundry news, SSD pricing,…

Beware Of A Notepad++ Clone Or Not?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:10:28 +0000

The makes of Notepad++ are sending out a warning today to avoid what they call a parasite website, which looks very similar to theirs. The new site, notepad.plus carries branding similar to…

A Pi 5 PC Or A No Name Amazon Mini Desktop?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:11:45 +0000

The Raspberry Pi 5 is an impressive beast compared to it's predecessors, and can make a half decent solution for a low powered desktop PC. The price is also bigger than other…

PCIe 6.0 Is Already Outdated, So Here’s The First Draft Of PCIe 7.0

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:58:37 +0000

While we haven't even seen PCIe 6.0, the PCI SIG consortium have been busily drafting up PCIe 7.0 and today they released our first look at what it will be capable of. …

Try Grimhook For Free, See If You Want To Wishlist The Full Version

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:15:47 +0000

Are you a fan of first person platforming games and haven't tried Grimhook? It's free to grab on Steam and just received a number of patches, so why not give…

Enterprise SSD Prices Skyrocket, Expect The Same For Consumer Grade

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:39:49 +0000

When it was announced that at least one major cryptocurrency was moving from proof of work to proof of stake there was concern that this could drive up the price of SSDs. …

Some Relief For Linux Admins Living In Terror Of The XZ Backdoor

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:21:10 +0000

Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ…

Podcast #766 – AMD FSR 3.1, Radeon 7900 GRE Memory OC Unlock, Microsoft DirectSR, LIVA Z5 PLUS, Apple CPU Vulnerability + MORE

PCPer Staff — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:00:09 +0000

You didn't ask for it, but here it is. The greatest PC Perspective podcast ever recorded on March 27, 2024. Some things we talked about were: China bans things too, FSR 3.1,…

Homeworld 3 Delayed, For Only Good Reasons

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:04:49 +0000

Homeworld 3 is now due to launch May 13th, about two months after it was first to launch but in this case players might not be overly upset because of the…

Intel Meteor Lake Gets Socketed, But You Won’t See It In Your Desktop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:30:17 +0000

There are rumours of a new socketed Meteor Lake chip thanks to a post on Twitter from iBase motherboards, who suggest they will release an LGA 1851 socket with explicit support…

Podcast #765 – NVIDIA Blackwell, MAINGEAR Ships PCs w/ Delidded 14900KS, First SK hynix Gen5 SSD, Fresh DDOS attack style + MORE!

PCPer Staff — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:00:09 +0000

Another week, and another podcast. It seems like our destiny. In the words of Darth Vader, join us, and together we can rule the galaxy as ... distant cousins? I think that's…

Apple M Series Hardware Security Flaw, Too Bad You Can’t GoFetch A Patch

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:16:02 +0000

Proud owners of a M1, M2 or M3 based Apple devices are not having a good day. The newly revealed GoFetch attack is worrying enough to ruin a perfectly good Friday as…

Axis Unseen, Skyrim Like But Only A Bow And Gigantic Enemies

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:54:40 +0000

Axis Unseen looks somewhat like Skyrim or perhaps Horizon Zero Dawn seeing as how you only use a bow. The bow is rather unique though, that is where the sound monitor, player…