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Winsage

December 4, 2025

Microsoft finds an unlikely ally — Linux developer defends Windows against BSoD jokes

Windows has traditionally held a dominant market share in operating systems, but Linux is gaining traction, particularly after Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Zorin OS, a Linux distribution, attracted around 780,000 former Windows users within a month of this announcement. Bazzite delivered a petabyte of ISO files in one month, indicating a growing interest among Windows 10 users in alternatives to Windows 11. Linus Torvalds highlighted that many blue screen errors in Windows are linked to hardware issues rather than software bugs and recommended using Error-Correcting Code (ECC) memory for better stability. Microsoft has changed its error reporting from the blue screen of death to a black screen to enhance security and prevent destabilizing updates. There are three types of Blue Screen of Death errors: the Windows 3.1 Ctrl+Alt+Del screen, the Windows 95 kernel error, and the Windows NT kernel error.

AppWizard

October 16, 2025

Forget water cooling, this guy just cooled an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU by spraying coolant directly onto it, and you need to see it in action

Master overclocker Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has demonstrated a spray cooling technique for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which involves applying coolant directly to the CPU's integrated heat spreader (IHS). This method, a variant of phase-change cooling, allows the coolant to transition from liquid to gas upon contact with the heated CPU, effectively removing thermal energy. Der8auer used 3M Novec 7000 coolant, which has a boiling point of 34°C, although it will be banned in the EU later this year. The experiment consumed approximately 500ml of coolant in 15 minutes, maintaining CPU temperatures between 60-70°C during light workloads and completing the Cinebench multi-core test.

AppWizard

October 10, 2025

New AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs work on old AM5 motherboards, Asus appears to confirm

Asus has announced that the B850M AYW Gaming OC motherboard will support the upcoming AMD Ryzen CPUs based on the Zen 6 architecture. The motherboard is designed for overclocking enthusiasts and will allow users to upgrade to new CPUs by simply flashing the BIOS on existing AM5 motherboards. Rumors suggest that the Zen 6 architecture may feature significant improvements, including a 24-core CPU and clock speeds up to 7GHz. The marketing materials indicate compatibility with both current AM5 CPUs and future Zen 6 processors. AMD's CPU sockets, like AM4 and AM5, have provided a strategic advantage by allowing users to upgrade their CPUs without needing a new motherboard, unlike Intel's approach with its LGA sockets.

AppWizard

October 7, 2025

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X review – now my favorite budget gaming CPU

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X is a budget gaming CPU with six cores and a peak boost clock of 5.4GHz, priced at 9 after a reduction from its initial price of 9. It features 12 threads, a 65W TDP, and is built on the AMD Zen 5 architecture with Socket AM5 compatibility. The CPU has a 32MB L3 cache and supports Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). In gaming benchmarks, it outperformed the Ryzen 5 7600X and the Intel Core i5 14600K in several titles, achieving an average of 211fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at High settings. However, it lags behind in multi-threaded applications, scoring 16,286 at 65W TDP in Cinebench R23, compared to the Core i5 14600K's score of 23,990. The 9600X's thermal performance is efficient, peaking at 68°C during tests.

AppWizard

September 17, 2025

A new AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU just dropped, and Socket AM4 is now seemingly immortal

AMD has introduced the Ryzen 5 5600F, a new CPU for the Socket AM4 lineup, nearly nine years after the platform's initial launch in September 2016. The 5600F is currently available only in the Asia Pacific and Japan regions. It features six Zen 3 cores, supports simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) for 12 threads, has a base clock of 3GHz and a boost clock of 4GHz, and includes 32MB of L3 cache. Unlike the Ryzen 5 5600G, the 5600F does not have integrated graphics. It has an unlocked multiplier for potential overclocking. The official launch date is September 16, 2025.