Most high-end GPUs feature three fans or an AIO to cool down the extreme heat they deliver. But ASRock found a way to do this without fans or liquid cooling with its just-announcedPassive Seriesgraphics cards, featuring the RX 7900 XTX Passive 24GB and RX 7900 XT Passive 20GB GPUs. The 7900 XTX and 7900 XT feature a vapor chamber heatsink to efficiently move heat from the GPU to the aluminum cooling fins....

Just days beforeComputexkicks off, ASRockintroducedits first Radeon RX 7900 WS graphics cards. These cards are not primarily aimed at gamers (even though they are clearly among the bestgraphics cards) but rather multi-GPU environments used for AI training and creative professionals. ASRock’s new Radeon RX 7900 WS-series boards also happen to be the industry’s first Radeon RX 7900 graphics cards with a blower cooler and a 12V-2×6 power connector. ASRock’sRadeonRX 7900 XT WS 20 GB and Radeon RX 7900 XTX WS 24 GB graphics cards come with specially designed cooling systems featuring a vapor chamber and one blower fan....

As thebest graphics cards’typical width and length continue to increase, so does the challenge of ejecting them from the motherboard. The problem worsens with a large CPU air cooler or an M.2 slot blocking your way. We might see the beginning of an end to that nuisance, as both Asus and MSI just showcased new motherboards with GPU quick-release mechanisms at Gamescon 2024. Famous Overclocker Der8auer visited the Asus booth, where he got a video of the ROG X870E Hero, which has two quality-of-life improvements: a quick-release mechanism for the primary M....

Asus is preparing to introduce its own NUC devices since taking over from Intel with its first ROG-infused NUC. The company announced a teaser via X, saying it will have an event on January 8, a day beforeCES2024. The company did not reveal any information or specifications, and any glimpse of the ROG NUC didn’t give any scrap of information. We know that Asus has planned to showcase this product fora few months....

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Modern day gaming consoles are highly optimized to help you play games on a TV. It is all possible because of the integrated gaming mode on the TV. This mode automatically enhances the TV’s display settings to facilitate your gameplay. However, if your TV does not support gaming mode, you should adjust a few settings. you’re able to start off by adjusting the picture, sound and power settings on your TV....

A desktop PC often serves as the center of a household. From schoolwork to post-vacation video editing to leisurely gaming, everyone has a reason to spend a little time on it every day. That connection is even more profound when you’ve built it yourself. You know that every piece of that machine is one you selected and installed according to your family’s specifications.That’s why when you’re putting together your next PC, involving your kids (or godkids, grandkids, nieces, and nephews) is a great way to bond....

As China isbuilding more new fabs than any other country on the planet, it is on track to significantly boost its chipmaking capabilities in the coming years. Barclays expects the country to more than double its capacity within the next five to seven years,Bloombergreports. This growth surpasses current market predictions and may be another example how badly China wants to be self-reliant when it comes to chipmaking. After examining the plans of 48 chipmakers for China, Barclays believes that the People’s Republic could expand its chip production capacity by 60% over the next three years....

One of the challenges that Chinese companies have withdeveloping their own chipmaking gearis the lack of experienced professionals in fields as high-end lithography and optics. As Chinese companies, such as Huawei, want the best, they are aggressively recruiting people from ASML and Zeiss SMT, offering plenty of money in exchange for their world-class knowledge and experience, reports theWall Street Journal. Huawei approached employees at Germany’s Zeiss SMT, which produces optics for ASML’s lithography tools, offering up to triple their salaries....

Nvidia has yet to officially introduce its mid-rangeGeForce RTX 5060 and GeForce RTX 5060 Tigraphics cards, but the products are already allegedly listed in China, according toVideoCardz. An intriguing thing about the GeForce RTX 5060 is that an unknown Chinese retailer lists a 12GB version of the GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti), which is something that we have not heard of before. This could be a typo, or Nvidia plans to segmentize the midrange market further....

It is close to impossible to get into a Chinese semiconductor laboratory, but Chinese scientists are inclined to share the results of their work. Thus, our colleagues fromTechXplorehave found apaperfrom researchers at Peking University who claim to have built the industry’s first tensor processing unit (TPU) featuring carbon nanotube transistors. Before we go into what was achieved, let us talk a bit about carbon nanotube transistors and why they are important....

A Chinese-made Loongson 3A6000 SoC is making its way into the retail market in theMorefine M700Smini PC. The CPU isn’t a top-of-the-line performer compared to currently available AMD and Intel chips, though; The A36000 CPU’s performance is equivalent to anIntel Core i3-10100Fand about Zen 3 levels of IPC. Loongson’s chip has four cores and eight threads with clock speeds between 2.0 and 2.5 GHz. At max, it supports up to 64GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM memory....

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since we last visitedComputex, but here we are again with all the latest and greatest advancements coming from your favorite names in tech. We have Tom’s Hardware editors on the ground in Taipei bringing you everything that we see on the show floor (and beyond), which you can peruse in our dedicatedComputex 2025 hub. However, we’ll give you a quick rundown of all the goodness announced during “Day Zero” of Computex 2025....