1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,760 Hi, I'm here to host TechLink. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,000 Got it. And I guess that means we're going to be talking about what's 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,120 the first topic? It's tech news. We're talking about tech news. 4 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:15,840 Sounds good. It was Elijah Week on Flow Plane. I had to host this as well. 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,320 Go check it out. It was. Yeah, it's this week. Right now it's happening. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,040 Yeah. Intel has released a new microcode update that has angered some users hoping 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:29,120 to squeeze a little bit of extra performance out of the company's latest Aero Lake desktop processors, which 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,120 were designed to explicitly prioritize efficiency over raw power. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,320 Apparently, the environment is more important than gaming 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,160 at 300 FPS. We're going to agree to disagree. The update removes the ability for most motherboards 11 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:44,400 to bypass Aero Lake's Digital Linear Voltage Regulator, 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,720 or DLVR, a feature that can lower power consumption 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:53,440 under certain workloads, but can also lead to performance bottlenecks in a more demanding situation, 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,840 and especially when the CPU is at full load. The feature was added to Raptor Lake, 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,960 but was locked off by Intel. Aero Lake has it enabled, and overclockers 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,640 had been using a bypass called PowerGate mode in the BIOS. 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:11,440 But the new update only allows you to do it if your motherboard has an extreme OC mode. 18 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,520 Intel says this is to prevent accidental misuse 19 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,720 and ensure that it can only be used in extreme overclocking scenarios with subambient cooling, 20 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,520 such as liquid nitrogen. Because breaking overclock records is worth destroying the environment. 21 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,480 Who needs trees? I just need higher FPS. 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,680 In other, huh, Intel news, the company is incorporating 3D cache, 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,360 AMD's version of which is the secret sauce behind the X3D series chips. 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,520 But so far, Team Blue is only adding it to their next-gen Clear Water Forest line 25 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,700 of Xeon processors, with no plans to do the same 26 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:47,920 for their mainstream CPUs. According to Intel's Florian Meislinger 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,520 in an interview with Durbauer and Ben's hardware, they just don't really see the point. 28 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,920 They're just chilling. Intel's fine, why don't break what's not broken? 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,240 They do need to fix some stuff though. They got coffee again. 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,600 Two reports have emerged of Ryzen 7 9800 X3D processors 31 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,240 with burn damage after being used in an MSI Mag 32 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:14,680 X870 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard. One was posted in the Korean language Quasar Zone Forum, 33 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,920 and the other was in the PC Master Race subreddit by the user name Trump Poo Poo's Pants. 34 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:24,120 Techlink doesn't hold any position related to this, that's just their name. Just regular. 35 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:28,560 We didn't purposely pick it. What, what? MSI has already responded to the reports 36 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,140 saying they're investigating alongside AMD, and interestingly, YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, 37 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:36,160 which has a real turning yourself in kind of vibe. 38 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,920 But maybe MSI doesn't have to be too worried. Some early analysis points to the burnout 39 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:46,160 potentially being caused by user error. The owners in question may have misaligned their CPU 40 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,760 before locking it in, or they may have read online that warming it up on a waffle iron 41 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,120 before installing it actually helps with ray tracing. We've all been there, okay? 42 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,120 We've all been there. I mean, I understand. My bad, okay? And now we do. 43 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,320 What's next, sorry? The Quickbits, is it? Oh, what? 44 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,480 The Quickbits, okay, kind of weird, but sure. 45 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,400 A thin and light gaming laptop with an upgradeable GPU has been listed at a Chinese retailer. 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,880 It's called the Huan 16, and it's either made by a company called Firebat, 47 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,000 or Tongfang PC, or Naruto, which I think is my favorite 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,120 as long as we're taking suggestions. The laptop appears to have a pretty cool internal design 49 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,280 with a Ryzen 7 8845H mainboard, 50 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,440 and a separate RTX 4060 GPU module 51 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,640 that can be swapped out for another one that also uses the GX 2.0 modular system. 52 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:37,480 Now just make some of the other laptop components modular as well. This could have been the one. 53 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:42,040 Some great news for game historians. GOG has announced a new preservation program, 54 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,760 which will see the DRM free platform commit its own resources 55 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,920 to keeping older games compatible with modern systems. 56 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,760 They're starting with a list of a hundred classic games, which will only grow as gamers immediately start arguing 57 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,040 about what's a classic and what's not. Two games that aren't up for debate in that sense 58 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,680 are the 1998's Unreal and 2000's Unreal Tournament game of the year edition, 59 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,080 which are now being hosted on internet archive for free 60 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,600 with Epic Games' explicit blessing. No need to toast your CPU for more ray tracing, 61 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,960 the games don't have it. It won't work, trust me. We tried. 62 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,600 We've all been there. Keep your eye out for fake websites posing as online stores. 63 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:24,440 According to threat research firm Eclectic IQ, a scammer group going by Silk Spectre 64 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,720 is apparently creating thousands of fraudulent websites 65 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,840 to impersonate the real websites of brands like North Face, Ikea, and Wayfair. 66 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:35,840 So be wary, because some of the domain names for these sites 67 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,320 often include the words Black Friday, the upcoming holiday celebrating the cherished 68 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,200 North American tradition of impulse buying products to feel something, literally anything. 69 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,520 Please. Pressing the button feels good. And Google has finally launched the iOS app 70 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:56,280 for its generative AI Gemini, bringing iPhone users the ability to access Gemini Live, 71 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,560 Google's version of chat GPT's advanced voice feature, 72 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,360 both of which somehow make Siri seem even less useful than she has been for years. 73 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:09,800 iPhone users can now join other Gemini users in being told that they're a stain on the universe. 74 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,960 Like this student who was instructed to please die. 75 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,000 Jeez. Google said they're looking into the incident, 76 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,480 which they called an example of how these models sometimes give nonsensical responses. 77 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,000 It's just a little silly. Silly. I mean, it's a little guy. 78 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,080 Look. It's a little hateful guy. 79 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,840 And you'd be a little silly not to come back next Monday for more tech news. 80 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:37,440 You need tech news to live. What are you going to survive on? Sports news? 81 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,600 No, team A is out. Team B is going to the championships. 82 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,160 There, I'm done. You happy? That's all you need. 83 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,360 No, you have to stay here, Elijah. No, I gotta go back to work. 84 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,560 You're sleeping here.