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AMD’s Reference Radeon RX 7900 XTX Cards May Have A Faulty Vapor Chamber That Causes Overheating & Leads To Thermal Throttling Over the past week, users started reporting a serious issue with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX ‘MBA’ reference graphics cards that caused overheating and resulted in thermal throttling. This made reference designs perform worse since they were running at lower clock speeds and while the initial response from AMD was that everything was ‘Normal’ and declined an RMA to a customer, the company has now softened its position and asked affected users to contact the support team....

German PC Builders Love AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs, Consumers Show Little Interest In Ryzen 7000 In data compiled by Ingebor at Reddit, we can see the latest market statistics from Germany’s largest PC hardware retailer, Mindfactory. According to the figures, December 2022 marked the second-best sales month for the entirety of the past year. AMD CPUs amounted to almost 20K units sold while Intel CPUs amounted close to 11K units sold....

Apple’s highly anticipated MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips are delayed once again According to DigiTimes, Apple’s highly anticipated M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models have been delayed. Mark Gurman previously coined in late October that the company will release the new laptops in the first quarter of 2023. In his latest report, Gurman claims that the new MacBook Pro models will launch in the first half of 2023....

Coming to the build quality, the ASUS TUF Gaming A15 sports a blend of plastic and metal, and its 15.6-inch FHD IPS LCD screen supports up to a 300Hz refresh rate. In short, this panel is made for e-sports titles, but thanks to its RTX 3060 GPU, it can also be used to play graphically intensive games. Now, at default, the RTX 3060 operates at 115W, with an additional 25W juice possible thanks to NVIDIA’s Dynamic Boost, so keep that in mind when you are monitoring gaming performance....

Anyway, a few hours ago, independent Chinese developer Game Science released a short film to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year festivity, showing a Summer 2024 release window at the very end. Black Myth: Wukong was first unveiled in August 2020, when Game Science released a lengthy Pre-Alpha gameplay video that wowed the world with its stunning graphics and intense combat. It is based on the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, arguably the most popular literary Asian work, which was published in the 16th century (during the reign of the Ming Dynasty) and attributed to Wu Cheng’en....

The mod’s 0.2 version fixes the issue which caused the vast majority of story sequences past a certain cutscene in Chapter 2 to be voiceless, as well as a variety of crashing issues. Additionally, the new version of the mod now fully supports existing save files, allowing players to resume a playthrough made in the vanilla version of the game with the PSP version’s English voice acting. Even with the latest update, this Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII – Reunion mod is far from being perfect, as FMVs still feature the new English voice acting....

These are the words of Jawad S. Mian, the author of the book Stray Reflections. With a difficult year – for the markets, at least – coming to an end in a matter of hours, it is only natural to immerse oneself in an introspective mood. One such reflection relates to the weird connection between the space race and the end of stock market bull runs. The fault lies squarely with Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson....

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra are expected to switch to titanium instead of aluminum, which may raise the manufacturing cost Hong Kong investment firm Haitong International Securities’ Jeff Pu talked about the iPhone 15 series in his research, courtesy of MacRumors. He still refers to Apple’s top-tier offering as the iPhone 15 Pro Max, though Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes that the company will call it the iPhone 15 Ultra....

Apple may have wanted to focus on the battery life on the new 2023 MacBook Pro models, which is why this benefit is marketed first Both the M2 Pro and M2 Max will sport eight performance cores and four energy-efficient ones when the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models start shipping to customers. In 2021, the M1 Pro and M1 Max came with eight performance and two energy-efficient cores. In short, Apple has not made an effort to cram any additional performance cores into the M2 Pro and M2 Max, suggesting that increased multi-core gains may not have been the company’s goal at this time....

The infamous “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli – the same person who had jacked up the price of the life-saving medicine Daraprim by over 4,000 percent – is now dispensing some much-needed advice to FTX’s disgraced former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), on how to survive an American prison cell. For those who might be unaware, Sam Bankman-Fried is currently out on a $250 million bond, secured via an equity stake in his parents’ house....

The DLC, titled The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, will be available on January 26th. As a recruitable hero, expect the full suite of Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ greatness with Deadpool bringing unique new abilities and his signature brand of chaos to the battlefield, as well as the opportunity to build Friendship and become best friends with the Merc with a Mouth in the Abbey. New enemy types will also be introduced in the story missions - plus, you’ll want to develop Deadpool’s unique Research project Food Truck to give you an extra tactical edge on the battlefield....

Apple working on a new Apple TV model with a faster chip, might give room to high-end games in the future The latest Apple TV came with minor tweaks in design as far as the dimensions are concerned. Other than this, the device came with a 5-core A15 Bionic chip that delivered 30 percent better performance than its predecessor. Ultimately, the new Apple TV is probably the fastest set-top box you can buy right now....

The new update introduces a new third-person perspective-assist mode which allows players to see Shelia’s model when moving and firing a weapon without aiming. This mode won’t be active when using skills, when aiming, defending, grappling, or using the Light Blade. In addition, this new update adds support for Toon Rendering on PC. This mode renders Shelia in a cel-shaded toon style. As said, this mode is only available for the PC version....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Is A Rebadged RTX 4080 12 GB, Green Team Claims Up To 3.5x Faster Than RTX 3080 With RT-Overdrive The specifications, nor the performance of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti are anything to woo about considering we have seen them on multiple occasions before. As expected, the RTX 4070 Ti will feature the same specs as the RTX 4080 12 GB which was ‘Un launched’ by the green team....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 & RTX 4060 Ti GPU Mass Production Possibly Beginning Next Month, Make Use of Cut-Down AD104 ‘Ada’ GPUs Based on the information we received from our sources, it looks like NVIDIA will be producing two brand new GPU SKUs for its upcoming GeForce RTX 40 Desktop lineup. These SKUs are based on the AD104 die, the same die that is used to power the recently introduced GeForce RTX 4070 Ti & while that uses the fully enabled chip, these new dies will be cut down quite significantly....

The Blazing Fast Tri-Band Nest Wifi Pro Mesh System is Up to $80 off for a Limited Time If you take your home or office Wi-Fi seriously, then make sure you jump on to this deal. You do not need any discount code or special coupon in order to get this price. Add it to your cart, hit the checkout button, and your new mesh system could be with you as early as tomorrow....

Here’s the complete overview of this year’s nominee and winners within each category. Game of the Year Dying Light 2 Elden Ring Stray God of War (2018) Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 VR Game of the Year BONELAB Hitman 3 Green Hell VR Among Us VR Inside the Backrooms Labor of Love DOTA 2 Project Zomboid No Man’s Sky Deep Rock Galactic Cyberpunk 2077 Better with Friends Raft Ready or Not Monster Hunter Rise MultiVersus Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2...

The Apple Watch can accurately measure stress levels using ECG and other metrics, according to a new study The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, suggesting that the Apple Watch can predict a user’s stress levels (via MyHealthyApple). The researchers used the Apple Watch Series 6’s ECG sensor and found that the data had a close association with heart rate acceleration and deceleration capacity when the participants reported stress levels....

Note: For the purposes of Wccftech’s Best Of lists, any game that requires combat in order to progress is filed under action. There are three exceptions – games that put a particularly heavy emphasis on roleplaying (beyond the standard action-adventure skill trees) will be reserved for our Best RPGs of 2022 list, games that aim to scare you are saved for Best Horror Games of 2022, and games that require more serious shooting skills are reserved for, you guessed it, Best Shooters of 2022....

If BioWare managed to release Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and Square Enix launched Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth this year, too, then 2023 could truly become one to remember in the history books of the genre. Also in Wccftech’s Most Anticipated Games of 2023 lists: Fighting Starfield (1H 2023 - PC/XSS/XSX) Bethesda Game Studios is making its big comeback to single player games eight years after Fallout 4. In addition, Starfield will be the studio’s first new IP in twenty-five years....