Summary of the week of March 28, 2022

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Graphics cards continue to decline

The average price of graphics cards has fallen again this month and is now 25% above the recommended retail price compared to 135-141% last month.

Core i9-9880H

Someone brought us a Core i9-9880H a few days ago. It is a portable processor with 8 cores, a TDP of 45W and performance on par with the i5-10500. It is the ninth of the 28 SkyLakes we have and in 43rd position in the overall ranking.

Security flaw in Chrome

A zero-day security flaw has been found in Chrome and its derivatives. Details have not been revealed yet, although it is recommended to update to version 99.0.4844.84 or higher as soon as possible.

Core i5-10400F

Someone has brought us a Core i5-10400F that comes with 6 Comet Lake cores. It is sixth out of 21 in the architecture ranking and 41 in the overall ranking.

Intel's discrete GPU

Tomorrow Intel will release Arc, its new discrete GPU. It will start with the most basic models intended for lightweight laptops, although desktop models for gaming will come out later.

Silencing the heatsink with a piece of paper

Someone has discovered that putting a piece of paper around the heatsink that Intel includes as standard with its Alder Lake produces a considerable reduction in noise without affecting temperatures.

Microsoft makes it easier to use other browsers in Windows 11

The KB5011563 update for Windows 11 will make it easier to choose the default Internet browser. Until now, you had to configure the program with which different web extensions were opened.

Hardware video encoding

In this entry, they compare the quality in hardware video compression in the NVEC that comes with Turing and the VCN of AMD GPUs. The Nvidia option is clearly better.