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