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. 2TB Performance Results Comparison Products The Corsair MP600 Elite enters a market that already has a lot of competition. This includes the Maxio MAP1602-basedTeamgroup MP44andHP FX700as well as many drives that share that hardware, such as the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite....

Why buy a 60% keyboard? Well, that’s the rub, it’s primarily used for FPS gamers looking to free up desk space and has more room for flicking the mouse about for aiming those headshots, but if you’re not a pro gamer and you use your keyboard for work i.e spreadsheets, then not having a number pad can be a real pain. The same with the missing function row and other keys....

A critical vulnerability in SD Express memory cards, called DaMAgeCard, has been uncovered, enabling attackers to exploit the PCIe interface for direct access to system memory. Discovered byPositive Technologies, this flaw can potentially give attackers unauthorized access to system memory, bypassing typical software defenses. The DaMAgeCard exploit leverages the PCIe interface within SD Express memory cards to perform Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks. By exploiting the privileged access that PCIe provides, attackers can bypass traditional software-basedsecuritymechanisms such as antivirus programs or OS-level protections....

The developers ofBlack Myth: Wukonghave warned Intel PC users that they may face error messages, instability, and crashes when trying to play their blockbusting new game. In a pinned topic on the Steam Community message boards, the humbly named ‘Free Range Key Technique Master’ highlights potential ‘Out of video memory’ issues that may affect users of systems packing Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen CPUs. The error message might be displayed, and the system crashes during the shader compilation process on such systems, indicatingthe post....

According toBloomberg, the Netherlands is set to restrict ASML’s ability to service its installed advanced wafer fab equipment in China, which could severely disrupt China’s chipmaking ambitions. If the information is correct, China’s semiconductor champion SMIC may lose the ability to produce chips on its 7nm and 5nm process technologies in the coming year. The Dutch government plans to let certain licenses expire at the end of the year, specifically those related to ASML’s advanced DUV lithography machines....

At first glance, this mess of wires, onboard components, and manually soldered circuits may seem like some sort of cyberpunk sculpture, but it’s actually a project that can only be described as absurdly brilliant. A passionate enthusiast has just built an entire processor—yes, not a development board, not a microcontroller, but a full-on, instruction-capable, memory-addressing CPU using nothing but old memory chips and logic components from the 8-bit era. It wasn’t designed to replace a modern CPU, but rather a “fun” DIY project, dubbed the EPROMINT....

On January 25th, 2024, Graid Technology officially announced an entry-level version of their SupremeRAID series of GPUs to build a RAID array out of thebest SSDs. The new SupremeRAID SR-1001 is the entry-level version of the higher-endSupremeRAID SR-1010. SupremeRAID features a unique application of RAID controlled through GPU technology and the high-performance gains that come with it, allowing server operators and other high-end users to leverage the best of their multi-NVMe drive setups....

TheWindows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installationerror occurs when you try to upgrade your Windows build or reinstall the current Windows version. Either way, unless you completely fix the cause of this error, the installation process cannot be completed. Although the error message instructs you to restart the installation to move forward, doing so rarely works. This is because the likely culprit for a failed installation is probably your corrupted disk drive....

Managing a Formula 1 team is challenging, typically leaning heavily on state-of-the-art technology and the most advanced automotive engineering to gain even the slightest competitive edge. Imagine the surprise of James Vowles and Pat Fry, who took over the team principal and chief technical officer roles at Williams F1 in 2023, when they found this F1 team had been relying on Microsoft Excel for the crucial Williams car build workbook. According to the digital motorsport channelThe Race, this was just one notable feature of the “team’s outdated working practices and systems” that was holding back Williams, complained Vowles....

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, better known as Foxconn Technology, is set to expand its server production capacity in Mexico to meet ‘crazy’ demand for Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs and servers on its base, reportsBloomberg. The company’s move indicates a strong belief that AI-related investments will continue to rise. Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn, told Bloomberg Television that demand for GB200-based NVL72 servers with 72 B200 GPUs for AI and HPC workloads had exceeded initial expectations and was ‘crazy....

ManyWindows 11users areup in armsafter Microsoft added unremovable ads to its start menu in its latest update. Thankfully, a solution has arrived in"Oh F*ck Go Back"(OFGB), a program that allows users to disable every flavor of ad on the operating system with the click of the mouse. OFGB comes from Maddy (@xM4ddy), a programmer who drives Arch Linux daily rather than Windows and was inspired to build the novelty tool for Windows anyway....

This week,Googleunveiled its AlphaChip reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts. The AlphaChip AI promises to substantially speed up the design of chip floorplans and make them more optimal in terms of performance, power, and area. The reinforcement learning method,now shared withthe public, has been instrumental in designing Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and has been adopted by other companies, including MediaTek. Chip design layout, or floorplan, has traditionally been the longest and most labor-intensive phase of chip development....

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. Benchmarks and Conclusion Noise Levels When I’ve tested NVMe heatsinks with fans in the past, I always test them with my motherboard’s default setting, shown below. I never bothered to adjust this because at this setting, none of the units I’ve tested ran louder than my system fans at idle – and I like a nice, quietly running system....