The list in briefAMD1.Best X870E Motherboard2.Best B650E Motherboard3.Best B850 MotherboardINTEL1.Best High-End Z790 Motherboard2.Best ATX Z790 Motherboard3.Best Budget Z790 Motherboard The motherboard is like the nervous system of every PC build. Nearly everything in your system either plugs into your motherboard, or plugs intosomething elsethat plugs into your motherboard. Themotherboard’s form factor(typically E-ATX, ATX, Micro ATX, or Mini-ITX) also dictates the size of the PC case you’ll need to use. And, just as importantly, the motherboard’s socket and chipset determine which processors you can install in your new system....

The Geometric Future Model 0 Flamingo Small Form Factor PC case will soon hit retail stores a little over six months after we firstspotted the case at Computex 2024. According to Japanese importer Dirac onX (formerly Twitter), the company will release it on January 30, and it comes with an 80 Plus Bronze-certified 200W dedicated power supply. This 3-liter mini-PC case is unique because of its patented folding case design, where the panels are folded onto the motherboard and PSU like an origami box....

Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) is thesecond-largest pure-play foundry in the worldafter TSMC, and its stock price has been going on a rally in the past two months, doubling its value.Bloombergsays that China’s push for semiconductor self-reliance fuels this demand, and with U.S. sanctions making it harder for local companies to acquire chips with Western parts, they’re turning to local companies like SMIC for their needs. Aside from this, China is also investing billions of dollars into its semiconductor industry, and SMIC is benefiting from it....

Zhaoxin’s Kaisheng KH-40000/32 server CPUs are now available inside SuperCloud’s dual-socket RS3210 Z11 server, which is the first server made domestically in China — a key capability for the country as it looks to sever its technological reliance from sanction-prone Western influences. The RS3210 Z11 features two 32-core KH-40000/32 chips built on the x86 instruction set architecture AMD and Intel use for its CPUs — Zhoaxin is one of the rare few with access to x86 licenses....

Researchers and engineers using OpenAI’s Whisperaudiotranscription tool have said that it often includes hallucinations in its output, commonly manifested as chunks of text that don’t accurately reflect the original recording. According to theAssociated Press, a University of Michigan researcher said that he found made-up text in 80% of the AI tool’s transcriptions that were inspected, which led to him trying to improve it. AI hallucination isn’t a new phenomenon, and researchers have been trying to fix this using different tools likesemantic entropy....

Cooler Masterintroduced the MasterHUBat Computex 2024, showcasing a modular control panel you may customize to your heart’s desire. The company has now published aKickstarter page for the MasterHUB, with product shipments expected to start in September 2024, and offering discounts to early birds. Early supporters who place a $40 fully refundable deposit get about 25% off the list price of a MasterHUB, reserving a spot on the first delivery schedule. Cooler Master is initially offering two packages for the MasterHUB: the $299 Starter Kit includes the FlexBase, a 15-key IPS display, a five-slider module, and a two-roller module; and the $399 Pro Kit, includes everything in the Starter Kit plus a three-knob module, and the rotary encoder, with a 1....

Cooler Masteris keeping up with its extravagant pre-built PC launches by officially launching its shark-themed PC, showcased atCESearlier this year. Dubbed theShark X, Cooler Master’s new pre-built costs a whopping $7,000 and features a Core i7-14700F CPU and aGeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperGPU. It’s currently on pre-order, and Cooler Master will ship out orders later this year, although the brand didn’t provide a specific date. We’ve seen this PC a few times already; the Shark X PC was initially unveiled atCES 2023last year and then shown off again atCES 2024....

Jeff Clarke, chief operating officer and vice chairman ofDell, has announced that his company had started shipments of servers based on Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC and Grace CPUs. The machines use liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 racks and are aimed at enterprises. “Incredibly excited to ship the industry’s firstenterprise-ready Nvidia GB200 NVL72 server racks,” Clarkewrote in an X post. “These fully integrated, liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 racks are a huge milestone, the foundation for Dell AI Factory with Nvidia to advance HPC and AI innovation....

U.S. authorities have their sights set on China-based drone makerDJI, a company that has popularised drones for consumer and commercial markets globally. The U.S. Congress intends toban it, as they have begun to see DJI as a nationalsecuritythreat. Once the bipartisan legislation passes and the firm is added to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) communications infrastructure blocklist, DJI’s business in the U.S. will effectively be over. DJI sellsdronesin a wide range of markets, from consumer, to agriculture, and delivery businesses....

Sparkle has confirmed the company is working on dual-GPU versions of theIntel Arc B60, as the company showed off its trio of cooling solutions atComputex2025. The company demoed its blower, passive, and liquid-cooled solutions, and confirmed toTom’s Hardwarethat it is working on dual-GPU versions. All of Sparkle’s Arc Pro B60 graphics cards carry Intel’s BMG-G21 graphics processing unit with 2560 stream processors (20 Xe cores, 160 ray tracing, and 160 XMX cores), mated with 24GB of GDDR6 memory using a 192-bit interface....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Eyoyo’s EM105 may be small, but it’s a good all-around portable monitor. Compact size Integrated speakers Aluminum chassis feels robust Reasonable price Cons Separate stand is mediocre Why you may 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. I’ve reviewed some small portable monitors here at Tom’s Hardware, but this 10....

If there’s one thing the gaming community is really good at, it’s modding and the community loves resurrecting old game consoles. Today we’re sharing a really cool GameCubeRaspberry Pi-powered modchip known as theFlippyDrivecreated byChrisPvilleandTrevor Rudolph. Chris is responsible for the hardware side of the project while Trevor worked on the Cube Boot menu interface. To get an idea of what this chip does, it allows users the ability to load ROMs (dumps of game discs / cartridges from old arcade cabinets and consoles) onto an original GameCube using an SD card instead of the optical drive....

OpenAI launched GPT-2 in 2019, reportedly costing $256 per hour to train. However, it’s been five years since then, and we’re already at GPT-4o. Advancements in hardware, software, and data mean that training the same model will take less time and less money, asAndrej Karpathy, the developer behind the project to reproduce GPT-2 in llm.c, has proven.The primary driver of cost savings is using a single 8XH100 node to do the training, which dropped the cost to just $28 an hour — almost 90% off in as little as five years....