Leaked photos appear to show a new collaboration between 3D printing manufacturer Snapmaker and laser company Xtool. It’s an interesting team-up, as both companies have made multifunctional devices and stand-alone lasers. Snapmaker’s last 3D printer was the impressiveSnapmakerArtisan, which launched in 2022. It is a premium 3D printer with dual nozzles, similar to what Bambu Lab is using in the H2D, as well as a laser and CNC. The company has also made a stand-alone laser, the Snapmaker Ray....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The MSI MEG AI1600T PCIE5 delivers outstanding efficiency and power quality with innovative thermal design and distinctive aesthetic touches. While its extraordinarily high price point positions it exclusively for extreme enthusiasts, this Titanium-certified “halo product” represents MSI’s pinnacle of power supply engineering with future-ready features and exceptional component selection. ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 compliance Titanium-level efficiency across global certification standards High-resolution RGB display panel 10-year manufacturer’s warranty...

MSIhas revealed the MSI PortalX, a web-based platform designed to enable owners of its hardware or peripherals to manage RGB lighting through their browsers. This development represents a step in the right direction; however, some implications may arise. As computer users or enthusiasts, we have largely embraced RGB in our daily lives. While some consider it gaudy and others do not, RGB has become prevalent in many hardware-related products, including motherboards, graphics cards, power supplies, and peripherals....

We’ve seen plenty of liquid-cooled graphics cards over the years, and they fall into three categories: off-the-shelf AIO solutions from the graphics card vendors (e.g.,MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X Liquid), AIO solutions from graphics vendors that you add to your existing loop (e.g.EVGA RTX 3090 Kingpin Hydro Copper), and custom solutions where you find a compatible waterblock and replace your card’s cooler (e.g.EKWB’s various solutions). Lynk+ wants to alter the status quo and provide superior cooling performance on par with custom loops but with the ease-of-use and pricing associated with closed-loop AIO solutions....

We’ve put together a list of all Z890 motherboard models coming out from Gigabyte, Asus, ASRock, and MSI. For full details about Arrow Lake and Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S series CPUs check out ourprevious coverage. But in a nutshell Z890 is Intel’s new flagship chipset powering the LGA 1851 platform, which comes with updated connectivity features including Thunderbolt 4 support and built-in Wi-Fi 6E. All four motherboard makers are going the extra mile by adding features beyond what the chipset supports, primarily for higher-tier board models....

Two independent teams of researchers hailing from several universities in China and Japan have published new results on LK-99 that seemingly confirm the presence of room-temperature superconductivity. Uploaded to Cornell’s pre-print (and thus not-formally-peer-reviewed) scientific publications server Arxiv, the joint paper describes a slightly different formulation of the original LK-99 formula - one which leads theabstractto end with a relatively muted “Our experiment suggests at room temperature the Meissner effect is possibly present in this material....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB delivers 15% more performance than its 4060 Ti 16GB predecessor, at a theoretically lower price and with a lot more memory bandwidth. It’s a good choice, assuming you can find it at a reasonable price. Great mainstream value and performance 16GB of VRAM, with GDDR7 offering more bandwidth Better to have Blackwell’s features than not How much will these actually cost?...

GPU shader cores — called CUDA cores in Nvidia parlance — and ROPs are important aspects of modern GPUs. With it’s upcomig RTX 50-series, it appears Nvidia has focused on the former rather than both.Harukaze5719 reports on X(formally Twitter) that Nvidia’s upcomingBlackwell RTX 50-series GPUswill only see CUDA core count improvements over theAda Lovelace RTX 40-series GPUs, with ROPs staying the same on the various tiers. The only exception is the entry-level GB207 die, which will get a whopping 33%reductionin ROPS count....

Reports of Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 server racks overheating have purportedly been exaggerated.Business Insiderreports that Blackwell’s cooling design faults have already been addressed. Dylan Patel, chief analyst at Semianalysis, purportedly told Business Insider that Blackwell’s design issues, which have been present for months, have been largely addressed, stating that the overheating issues are largely overblown. Semianalysis' five analysts monitoring the semiconductor industry reported that the cooling system issues triggering “reworks” from several suppliers were a “minor” change....

If you’re looking for a new graphics card,Prime Day tech dealsare a great time to upgrade. We’re seeing some of the lowest prices ever across the gamut of GPUs, from Nvidia’s base modelRTX 4060Ada card up through AMD’sRX 7900 XTXand everything in between. These are some of thebest graphics cardsavailable, with limited time sales dropping them to levels we’re not likely to match until Black Friday rolls around this fall.How do the various GPUs stack up in terms of overall value, though?...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict NZXT’s H5 Flow (2024) has a simple but effective design that offers low noise levels and is best paired with mid-range PC builds (in the default configuration.) Low noise levels Good thermal performance Back-to-basics design Supports up to nine fans Cons Limited storage expansion options Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

In a newblog post, OpenAI outlines its plans to become a for-profit organization while maintaining its core mission of “ensuring that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.” The move is a significant shift from its non-profit roots in 2015, which later transformed into a “capped” for-profit, with the non-profit arm spearheading the company’s operations in line with its mission. However, these ambitions have been spoiled by the rising costs of running AI; server racks equipped with Nvidia’s Blackwell chipsreportedlycost $3 million or more....

Oracle has reportedly purchased about 400,000 NvidiaGB200AI chips, worth about $40 billion, for deployment in Abilene, Texas. According to theFinancial Times, this site will be the first to host the U.S. Stargate project —a $500 billion investment in AI infrastructureby OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund MGX that President Trump announced earlier this year. Upon completion, the site is estimated to deliver up to 1.2 gigawatts of computing power, making it one of the most powerful data centers in the world and competing againstElon Musk’s Colossus in Memphis, Tennessee....