Today at Walmart, you can find theLG 34GN850-B UltraGear 34-inch WQHD curved gaming monitorfor its lowest price. It’s been going for around $749 lately, but right now, it’s discounted to just $529. As of writing, no expiration date has been specified for the offer, so it’s unclear how long the discount will be available. This is an excellent deal on a 2K curved display, but if you’re looking for something a little different spec-wise, you should peruse our list ofbest gaming monitorsfor 2024....

Lian Li, one of the leading PC case manufacturers, just launched a new set of affordable PC cases. These cases will give enthusiasts with limited budgets more options when choosing a great-looking PC case. The company has also released the Strimer Plus V3 WRLS PC cables, allowing you to wirelessly connect the power cable to its RGB controller and reduce cable clutter inside your desktop computer. Great cases made more affordable The Lancool 207 is the most affordable Lian Li case to launch atComputex2024....

Per a press release yesterday and anofficial landing page, MSI is collaborating with Blizzard to release anRTX 4070 Superusing its Gaming Slim cooler design and boasting World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary theming. The RTX 4070 Super Gaming Slim World of Warcraft edition leverages a unique, swappable design using “half backplates.” The five full backplates are ten half backplates, and those halves can be mixed or left off the card as the end user pleases....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Dex is comfortable, but it’s still leaning more toward being flexible for multiple grips rather than perfect for one. 8,000 Hz wireless polling rate Might feel too big in smaller hands Scroll wheel isn’t great 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.Find out more about how we test....

Micronplansto invest $2.17 billion to expand its semiconductor facility in Manassas, Virginia, creating 340 jobs and boosting its U.S. semiconductor production capacity, said Governor Glenn Youngkin. The project will upgrade the facility to produce specialty DRAM memory for industrial, automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. Earlier this month, Micron announced that it had gotten $275 million in federal funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to upgrade its long-lifecycle DRAM fab in Manassas, Virginia, and move production of DRAM for the automotive industry from Taiwan to the United States....

Microsoftannouncedthis week its DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 application programming interface, which introduces new features that significantly improve visual quality and rendering performance by up to 2.3 times. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, along with game developers like Remedy, are working to integrate DXR 1.2 technologies into future gaming hardware and software. TheDirectXRaytracing 1.2 update includes Opacity Micromaps (OMM) and Shader Execution Reordering (SER), two technologies that boost performance in raytraced games by 2 (SER) to 2....

Linux users may face yet another hurdle related to Secure Boot when theMicrosoft-signed key used by many distributions to support the firmware-basedsecurityfeature expires on September 11, leaving users at the mercy of distribution from OEMs, and systems possibly not receiving a necessary firmware update. Let’s start with a quick overview of what Secure Boot is. It’s part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that has replaced the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) on modern systems....

When AMD released itsRyzen 8000Gand Ryzen Pro 8000G-series processors based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture earlier this year, it surprised many observers by not using the 7000 model range, which is already known for using the same Zen 4 technology. But if pictures of AMD’s Ryzen 3 Pro 7300G and Ryzen 5 Pro 7500G published atChiphellare to be believed, the red company planned to release its current-gen APUs with these model numbers at some point....

The French Autorité de la concurrence (Competition Authority) appears likely to soon charge Nvidia with anti-competitive business practices, according to sources obtained byReuters. The charges would come nine months afterthe Competition Authority raided Nvidia’s French offices, and hinge on Nvidia’s complete dominion over the AI compute space. Nvidia, which recently became thelargest company by market cap in the world(currently in 3rd place at the time of writing), has climbed to this great height thanks to the AI boom....

Gartner has published its preliminary worldwide semiconductorrevenue chartsfor 2023. Revenue for the sector as a whole declined by 11%, and the year appears to be characterized by big winners and losers. Nvidia is one of the winners, it broke into the top five semiconductor vendors for the first time and raked in over $15B in revenue — up over 56% year-over-year. Samsung, by contrast, lost its pole position: its revenue decreased by over 37%....

One of the world’s leading overclockers has fallen victim to a Chinese CPU scammer. Hong Kong’sHKEPCshares the sorry tale of overclockerSafedisk, who bought a non-retail packaged Intel Core i9-14900K, which was stone dead. To investigate the issue with the chip, the South Korean OC champion - ranked third worldwide - delidded the CPU to find it was seriously silicon deficient. There was just an empty space under the IHS where the CPU die was supposed to be....

Integrated case performs double duty as a stand Lightweight design 75-watt PD passthrough to host PC Cheap construction $100 or more expensive than comparable monitors Lack of comprehensive OSD settings 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.Find out more about how we test. Plugable has introduced a new portable monitor that seems unassuming from the outside, but actually packs some handy features for increasing your productivity....

Qualcomm has its eye on Intel. According to a report fromtheWall Street Journal,Qualcomm approached the struggling Intel about a potential takeover deal. The deal is described as “far from certain” and likely to garner antitrust investigations. If a deal occurred, it could also have far-reaching effects on the x86 architecture.It’s possible that Qualcomm could only be interested in portions of Intel, or, theWSJsuggests, could sell portions of the company to get a deal through....