LG unleashes $999 OLED gaming monitor with lightning 480 Hz refresh rate

LGhas revealed its latest OLED gaming monitor, theLGUltraGear 27GX790A-B. This 27-inch, 1440p, 480 Hz, DisplayHDR True Black 400-certified gaming monitor has almost no visible border and a far more robust stand than older LG gaming monitors.

AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops

AMD and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced today that the AMD-powered El Capitan has taken the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 list as the fastest-known supercomputer on the planet with 1.742 exaflops of performance. El Capitan debuts on the list at the top spot, catapulting over the previous leader, the 1.3 exaflop Frontier. The Intel-powered Aurora system fell to third place on the list—the system didn't submit a new benchmark run, implying that the partially operational system is stillexperiencing failure issues on numerous fronts(more below).

Arrow Lake non-K CPU pricing surges up to 13%

PC-Canada has posted preliminary listings of Intel's soon-to-launchArrow Lakenon-K 65W CPUs on its website—in both boxed and tray variations, thanks tomomomo_uson X. While these prices are in no way indicative of the final MSRP, there is a slight upward trajectory—at least for the budget CPUs, but that could boil down to currency conversion and other factors.

Latest Valve Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation

Last week,Valvereleaseda new Experimental update for its Proton compatibility later, which builds upon the stable September 19 Proton 9.0-3 release by providing fixes for dozens of games and even adding support for Nvidia's Optical Flow AI and DLSS 3 Frame Generation technologies. DLSS 3 now being supported under Proton bodes well for the future of Nvidia gaming on Linux, particularly when playing titles where framerate isn't easy to come by.

Ludicrous LAN Party House detailed

A Texas couple has shared expansive details of their home. But why wouldTom’s Hardwarebe interested? Because software engineer Kenton Varda and entrepreneur Jade Wang’slanparty.housewebsite boasts that they “built our house for LAN parties.” The high-tech Austin home is stuffed with 22 muscular modern gaming PCs, oodles of servers, and bucketfuls of supporting tech. Also, to prevent your body and peepers from seizing up after long LAN party sessions, there is a Dance Dance Revolution room and a 30-mile-view roof deck for the family and guests.

Raspberry Pi 5 RAM-doubling upgrade demoed — going from 4GB to 8GB with the wave of a soldering iron

An electronics upgrade and repair wizard has demonstrated how to boost the Raspberry Pi 5’s RAM quota.MadEDoctor shared a brief video on YouTubewhere they removed the 4GB RAM chip from a Raspberry Pi 5 and soldered on an 8GB alternative, commonly used on the olderRaspberry Pi 4. No esoteric tools were used during the process, just a good quality soldering iron and hot air rework station, as you can find among ourBest Soldering Irons and Stations 2024page.

Intel's Core 200 family poised to mix Arrow, Lunar, Meteor, Alder, and Raptor Lake parts

Some purported specifications of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 200U or Arrow Lake-U mobile processors have been surfaced byJaykihnat X. It turns out that despite the "Ultra" moniker; the Core Ultra 200U CPUs will utilize an updated version of the Meteor Lake architecture - reportedly using the Intel 3 node.

This Raspberry Pi 'Expanso Football' is a cool distributed compute cluster in a briefcase

When it comes to demonstrating software at a convention, it can be tricky to develop something that's efficient and appropriately attention-grabbing. Thankfully, the team at Expanso has Sean Tracey on board who threw together this really coolRaspberry Pi-powered cluster in a briefcase he calls theExpanso Football. We think it's a super fun idea to throw so many Pis into one case so we've invited Tracey to show off his creation in our upcoming episode of The Pi Cast, linked below.

Dell ships first Nvidia Blackwell server racks — PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready

Jeff Clarke, chief operating officer and vice chairman ofDell, has announced that his company had started shipments of servers based on Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC and Grace CPUs. The machines use liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 racks and are aimed at enterprises.

Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs

When Intel introduced its Xeon 6 platform earlier this year, the company said that the new CPUs will supportmultiplexed rank dual inline memory modules (MRDIMMs)with the promise of bringing together high data transfer rates, low latency, high capacity, and predictable power consumption. Late last week, the companydecided to remindthe industry about its MRDIMM support, probably because server makers are beginning to roll out systems with such memory modules. For example,NEC recently announced its soon-to-be-built supercomputer that will use MRDIMMs. However, this type of memory has yet to be ratified by JEDEC.