Why you should skip Dark Souls and play Elden Ring instead New kid on the chopping block When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Developer FromSoftware’s games may be set in separate worlds, but because of the DNA they share, fans group them together as the Soulsborne series.Elden Ringis the latest title to join that family, and like Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice before it, this monster-filled open-world RPG is a notoriously difficult game that even the most seasoned player will struggle to best....

3 reasons why SMBs should build their own file server SMBs need a comprehensive data management solution When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The pandemic has forced organizations of all sizes to adopt hybrid or fullyremote workarrangements. With these in place, storing, protecting, and sharing data can become a challenge, especially for SMBs that often have to deal with insufficient IT workforce and infrastructure financing....

A new Arm-based CPU with 128 cores will send a shiver down spines at Intel and AMD Alibaba Cloud’s Yitian 710 is ready to take on EPYC and Xeon in the server market When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Chinesebare metalandserver hostingcompanyAlibaba Cloudis preparing to trial a new instance type powered by customArm-based silicon. The new Yitian 710serverprocessor, firstunveiled in October, will underpin Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances powered by a varying number of vCPUs, each of which will be tied to a physical core....

Almost all devs are struggling to switch to open-source Vendor lock-in and support among the biggest problems When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Enterprises using open-core code would love to move to open-source completely, but are hitting major roadblocks which are slowing down the transition, a new report has found. Polling application development decision-makers around the world, Instacluster claims most firms see the benefits of open-source code, namely cutting down on costs (45%), being able to port code more easily (38%), and having a large community of developers as support (40%)....

AMD RX 6950 XT leak suggests GPU will be as pricey as Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti Potentially 66% more expensive than AMD’s current flagship When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD’s RX 6950 XT, the rumored refresh of its flagshipGPU, might come with a seriously weighty price tag if a fresh leak is anything near the right ballpark. There are some caveats here, as you might expect – and more than normal around a pricing leak, we’ll come back to that – but on the face of it, the RX 6950 XT has seen pre-release product listings at a couple of Australian retailers, Megabuy and ITnest (asPC Gamerspotted)....

TechRadar Verdict The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D introduces new 3D V-Cache technology that delivers on its lofty promises with incredible Ryzen 9-like gaming performance. It even takes a huge swing at Intel’s latest behemoth, the Core i9-12900K, and manages to land some serious blows. It’s non-gaming performance doesn’t benefit at all from the new 3D V-Cache tech, however, so this is strictly a gamer’s CPU. Unbelievable gaming performance Same AM4 socket...

Battlefield 2042 update fixes almost as many bugs as there are players Dice is rolling out patch 4.0 soon When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. An upcoming patch for Battlefield 2042 will introduce hundreds of bug fixes and quality of life improvements to the ailing multiplayer shooter and it’s expected to roll out on April 18. Dice community manager Kevin Johnson announced update 4....