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Asus Releases Statement Regarding BIOS Updates and Warranty Coverage

Asus has released an official statement regarding the highly controversial BIOS updates they released to attempt to resolve their motherboards causing Ryzen 7000 series processors to overvolt and turn into Gamers Nexus videos. Unfortunately for users, the previous fixes voided their motherboard warranty. Let’s look at the statement. Oops..sorry. Wrong statement. Not sure how I mixed those up… Here is Asus’ statement: 2023/05/15 We want to address the concerns that have been raised by our users about whether recent BIOS updates will impact the warranty of ASUS AM5 motherboards. We would like to reassure our customers that …

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Opinion: Star Wars Jedi Survivor is a DRM Dumpster Fire

Well, here we are with yet another terrible PC port of a potentially great game. Star Wars Jedi Survivor launched today and it’s been a complete mess. A large part of the problem is the heavily restrictive DRM (Digital Rights Management) via the Denuvo. Denuvo is a highly aggressive and controversial system that PC players have complained continuously about. Reading through posts on Reddit, performance testers have had Denuvo shut down testing after just two hardware changes. This makes it virtually impossible to perform any sort of testing on the games performance. However, that may not be necessary as players …

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Asus GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua OC Costs as Much as RTX 4090

Do you have $1,650 US Dollars to spend on a GPU? Neither do I. However, for those that want to pay RTX 4090 prices for an RTX 4080 you can now buy the 4-Slot Asus RTX 4080 Noctua OC. I’m not going to list this as a news post because there is absolutely no way I can keep opinion out of this overpriced owl face. Look, I like Noctua. I really do. The L9 series coolers have been my go-to for SFF cooling. Their fans are top notch. Even the huge NH-D15 is worth the money at $109 it …

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CES, My View

This is one of a series of mini-rants by your faithful correspondent, John Morrison. These are part of a series focusing on issues in the SFF niche. All content is entirely opinion of John, not of SmallFormFactor.net, and should not be taken as fact. So, CES has passed, and as usual, there was a myriad of new products, new products, new ideas. We have seen the usual; the ATX plague, the RGB disease, and the random stuff that, maybe, just maybe, should have stayed on the drawing board. While everyone has their own opinions, these are mine! [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] …