A very situational deal for today, the 8TB WD_Black SN850X has dropped considerably in price from its debut MSRP price of $879 by a massive 26%, but it’s still pretty expensive in the scheme of things. I certainly wouldn’t recommend buying it over picking up two cheaper 4TB SN850X for $600, but it is getting closer in price and also depends on how many M.2 slots you have on your motherboard and how much overall capacity you need in your PC....

A Wharton professor who studies AI, innovation, and start-ups dramatically claims that “the modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.” Ethan Mollick explains that this unremarkable road leads to a Sibelco North America Inc. facility where ultra-high-purity quartz is mined. This location is vitally important as it is claimed to be “the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers....

If you’re looking for a quality gaming machine on a budget, you should really take a closer look at this deal on theAcer Nitro 16 gaming laptop. This edition usually goes for around $1,299 but right now it’s discounted to $999 over atAmazon. So far, no expiration has been specified so we’re not sure how long it will be made available at this price. We had the opportunity to review another edition of this laptop and were very pleased with our experience, rating it at 4....

If you’re looking for a high-endWi-Fi 7gaming router but don’t like the aesthetics of spider-style routers from companies like Asus, TP-Link wants your attention. The new Archer GE800 is the company’s latest Wi-Fi 7 router, aiming to deliver performance and plenty of physical ports to also cater to all your wired networking needs. Unlike routers like theAsus ROG Rapture GT-BE98 ProandRT-BE96U, the Archer GE800 looks more mundane in comparison, and that’s a good thing....

A GeForce RTX 3050 6GB has been in the works for some time. Although the last-generationAmperegraphics card is unlikely to contend for a spot on the list ofbest graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB could be a decent alternative for budget gamers if correctly priced. While Nvidia’s latest graphics cards are on theAda Lovelacearchitecture, the chipmaker still has some Ampere products up its sleeves. However, instead of an upgrade, the forthcoming GeForce RTX 3050 6GB represents a regression from the vanillaGeForce RTX 3050, which has 8GB of onboard memory....

The U.S. government plans to unveil stricter regulations to block shipments of advanced processors made by TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Intel, and Samsung Foundry to China. By ‘advanced,’ the new rules mean processors made on 14nm or 16nm process technologies or more advanced that contain 30 billion transistors or more, according toBloomberg. But there will be exceptions. The new rules target chips with 30 billion transistors made on 14nm or 16nm nodes or smaller, as such products are presumed to be restricted for shipment to entities in China and other restricted nations unless their developers get an export license from the U....

UserBenchmark - the gift that keeps on giving! The website’s latest review of theRyzen 7 9800X3Dhas left many in shock as it now deems spending extra on a gaming CPU pointless. Continuing its never-ending saga of denouncing AMD, which it often refers to as “Advanced Marketing Devices,” UserBenchmark doubles down and names the i5-13600K and i5-14600K as worthy competitors, even though AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has dethroned Intel’s fastest gaming CPU, the i9-14900K, by almost 33% perour testing....

While the industry anxiously awaits Nvidia’s latestRTX 5090GPUs to hit shelves, Maxsun has unexpectedly revived the decade-old GT 730 perITHome. The AIB has unveiled two new models on the Chinese e-commerce platform JD: theMS-GT730 PH 4GandMS-GT730 PH 2G, starting at just $45. This is thesort of relaunchyou’d expect amid the infamous global chip shortage, but here we are. The GT 730 isn’t anything to write home about as the GPU is based on Nvidia’s GK208 die fabricated using TSMC’s 28nm process....

DISM Host Servicing Process High Disk, CPU, and Memory usage mainly happen when your PC is infected by malware. Viruses could disguise as this system process and replicate themselves while consuming a large amount of resources. Dismhost.exe folders sometimes keep appearing in large numbers in the temp folder. Aside from malware, this can also happen because of errors with Windows maintenance tasks like scheduled Disk Cleanups orWindows Defender scans. What is DISM Host Servicing Process?...

Whether you want to change your disk or the whole PC, you probably have to transfer files. The fastest way to transfer large files on Windows is to just swap the disk drive. But it is not so practical every time. The traditional method is tocopy and paste,performed by manual clicks or keyboard shortcuts. But there are many faster ways to transfer files that you might be unaware of. Go through this article to find out the most convenient methods....

Despite earning a bad reputation for using up alot of system resources, Google Chrome is still our preferred browser. But in recent times, it has also started giving users a hard time by causing Blue screen errors. This issue seems to get solved in most cases after adjusting chrome’s configurations and updating it. So, in this article, we will go into detail about these and other fixes you can use to resolve the issue....

Are you receiving the rather annoyingstatus updatesaying that Outlook trying to connect? With this error, you will not be able to send or receive emails. Usually, such an error is caused due to corrupt Outlook profiles. So, a quick fix to resolve this issue is to eithercreate a new profileorrepair the Outlook data files. But what if this is not the case? Well, this article will explore more about the potential causes of why Outlook prompts this error and some effective methods to help fix it....

Hardware modder and woodworker Redherring32 has posted the first-ever handheld Xbox console— specifically, a handheld made directly from the modified motherboard of a real original Xbox console. It is connected to a 9-inch 480p display and includes support for Wi-Fi 6 Xbox Live networking and 100W PD USB-C for fast charging. The mod is one of the most ambitious the Xbox community has ever seen and the first outright handheld Xbox console conversion— contrary to the more commonplace handheld (or super-compact, or both) mods of PlayStation and Nintendo home consoles....