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Introduction According to an article on KitGuru, titled "AMD Ryzen 7 – Windows 11 Patch, VBS and Windows 10," the tech enthusiasts at KitGuru have been busy testing AMD's Zen 5 CPUs in light of Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update (version 24H2) and its performance impact. Technical Details...

The concept of using a live USB to run an operating system is quite familiar to users of Linux distributions. For many, this option allows one to boot directly into the operating system without installation, providing a quick environment to test features or troubleshoot without altering the...

Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...

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Hi I have been having issues with my PC crashing to a BSOD only while playing games both cpu and gpu intensive, mostly Divinity: Original sin 2, EU4, and subnautica, . I have reinstalled a clean windows from a bootable USB, updated all drivers, and stress tested my cpu, gpu, and Ram, using...

William B submitted a new resource: Prime95 V28.9 - The primary builders testing tool Read more about this resource...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...

Windows 10 will see the release of DX12 which like AMD's Mantle see's the bulk of work spread across all the CPU's cores instead of just the first core taking all the brunt. Now with the latest update of 3DMark (you'll need a full licence) users can see for themselves what a major change DX12...

I've recently upgraded the hardware on one of my desktops (Motherboard, CPU & Ram) which required me to re install Windows Ultimate 7 (64 bit). The new install went flawless. All required drivers are installed, nothing in System settings indicates I have an issue with any device, etc. However...

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I have an E6550 Intel 2.33 Gig dual core (Windows &7) - 4 Gigs of 6400 RAM - 1 TB Sata 3 (6 Gb) Hard drive The other is a AMD 955 3.2 Gig Quad core (Windows 7) - 60 GB SSD Hard drive and 2 USB3 Hard Drives - 1333 Gigs of RAM The AMD does a virus check at 3 times the speed using the same...

I have had BSOD problems for almost a year now. Their occurrence has ranged from frequent (a few within 10 min) to whole weeks without seeing one. I've read alot of other people's posts and tried alot of those suggestions so I will list what I have tried. First of all, the error happens either...

This Week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:35] Somasegar: Link Removed including VS 2010 Service Pack 1, TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack, Load Test Feature Pack, and LightSwitch Beta 2 [01:01] Jason...

A few days ago my system began crashing with a video tdr error. The screen would go to black, and a few seconds later the system rebooted. I ran WhoCrashed and was told that the crashes were related to nvlddmkm.sys and dxgkrnl.sys. I began to troubleshoot these issues. I first removed the...

NVIDIA is accusing rival graphics chipmaker AMD of optimizing default settings baked into the cards’ drivers to gain an unfair performance advantage for its high-end GPUs. Nvidia cited the findings of several Web sites that conduct computer hardware reviews and testing, including...

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show atLink Removed In this episode: We talk about how coordinating work across worker roles. Demonstrate a tool to generate web traffic for load testing websites. Talk about the gotchas...

This article is a great in-depth look at what's new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The release of SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 will coincide with the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Besides the expected roll-up of all previous released updates to Windows Server 2008...

Hello! I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've been seeing very slow file operations since making this PC my main computer earlier this week. My system specs are listed below my signature. In addition to the specific example below, the problem appeares copying image files from a CF Card...

Canonical released the latest version of the popular Ubuntu operating system next week. And while Ubuntu 10.04 may have a new look and feel, integration with the Ubuntu One cloud-based storage service, and improved boot times, it’s not without its issues. The folks at Phoronix have done some...

Sorry for the long post :( I have 7 hard disks, all SATA 3 - are a hardware based raid 5 array 4 - are a raid-5 dynamic volume. All disks are intact no damage. Dynamic volume was used 2 hours ago, no issue I wanted to load windows 7 on it to see how it would perform on this machine. So...