Motherboard sales tank
Published in PC Hardware
15 February 2023

Motherboard sales tank


Will not get better until 2024

Motherboard makers saw their sales tank by more than 10 million units in 2022 and are not expecting a turnaround until late this year or early 2024.

GeForce RTX 4060 desktop and laptop specs are the same
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Leaks

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the specs for the desktop GeForce RTX 4060 this week, and they look remarkably similar to the laptop variant.

Intel's Raptor Lake T go on sale
Published in PC Hardware


A month late, under specced and over priced

A month late, Intel's new Raptor Lake T series budget CPUs are finally being sold online.

ARM based PC use on the rise
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Ignoring the general downturn 

Beancounters at Counterpoint Research have noticed that while PC sales are dropping, those with ARM based chips appeared to be bucking the trend. 

Microsoft update borks Intel graphics hardware running DirectX or Direct3D
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KB5019980 / KB5019961 for Windows 11 users and KB5019959 for Windows 10 users

Software King of the World Microsoft has admitted that a patch it released last November might have tiggered Intel graphics hardware running DirectX or Direct3D.