Asus RT-AX57 Go Wi-Fi 6 router review: Pocket-sized router for travel

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The RT-AX57 Go isn’t the fastest router around, but it’s a versatile tool for mobile warriors. Relatively affordable at $139 Multiple operating modes, including AiMesh support Support for 4G/5G smartphone tethering Performance is merely adequate Only one LAN port Why you’re able to 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....

May 19, 2025 · 8 min · 1514 words · Robert Rogers

Battery-powered AIO workstation forged from Framework laptop and 3D printed components — the Flying Lotus takes off

Using the famously flexible and customizable Framework laptop design, YouTuber noisycarlos has successfully converted a Framework laptop into an All-In-One PC workstation. What’s more, he’s also selling aFramework 13 Conversionkit that he developed during the process, so you could even choose to make your own Framework AIO PC if you so pleased. So, why go through all this trouble to turn a laptop into…not a laptop? Essentially, noisycarlos found himself doing a lot of work and travel on the go, and found that laptops really weren’t ideal for his use case....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 500 words · Erica Butler

BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX 144 Hz gaming monitor review: Bright, colorful and stylish

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. Grayscale, Gamma and Color Grayscale and Gamma Tracking The EX321UX defaults to its Fantasy picture mode. It offers high contrast and brightness with very saturated color. It’s a good look but there are some issues that I’ll talk about now....

May 19, 2025 · 4 min · 814 words · John Cunningham

Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2025: Expansion Boards for Every Project

TheRaspberry Piis an awesome platform for learning and experimentation. In its first 13 years it has helped many users learn to code, build robots and monitor the location of the International Space Station (they’ve even been onboard the ISS!), and so much more. But to make the most of the Pi, it helps to have the right expansion board. Originally the Raspberry Pi didn’t have a standard definition for boards. The first official expansion, 2012’sGertBoardwas larger than the Pi itself!...

May 19, 2025 · 11 min · 2212 words · Sabrina Smith

Buried Steam tool shows how much you've spent on your account in your lifetime

Steam lets you see how much total funds you’ve poured into your account over the years, and many users are shocked to find out how much of their net worth they’ve poured into their accounts. It all started whenReddituser u/HappyMcflappyy shared their Steam Points balance of 3,566,945. Given that you earn 100 points for every dollar spent on the platform, that means they had sunk over $35,000 into games and other apps....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Mary Melton

China's new semiconductor rule spares Taiwan fabs, punishes Intel, GlobalFoundries & Texas Instruments

Amid a fierce trade war with the US, China’s General Administration of Customs has changed its rules of how the origin of imported chips must be classified, now deeming that the wafer fabrication location should be counted as the origin of chips shipped to the country. This rule exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Intel, and other chipmakers who outsource wafer fabrication to Taiwanese companies from the punitive 125% tariff China now imposes on products from the U....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 602 words · Robert Haney

Chinese researchers use low-cost Nvidia chip for hypersonic weapon —unrestricted Nvidia Jetson TX2i powers guidance system

A team of researchers in China has demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson TX2i system-on-chip for industrial applications can significantly enhance capabilities of hypersonic weapons — achieving speeds above Mach 7, according to a report by theSouth China Morning Post. This SoC, which is not restricted by U.S. export controls and is much more affordable than high-end options, could enhance China’s military capability. TheNvidia Jetson TX2i processor(featuring two Denver 2 cores, two Arm Cortex-A57s, and a Pascal GPU with 256 CUDA cores) was originally designed for industrial applications but has been adapted by the research team to work within air-breathing hypersonic aircraft....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Jill Khan

Cloudflare switches to EPYC 9684X Genoa-X CPUs with 3D V-Cache — 145% faster than previous-gen Milan servers

Cloud provider Cloudflare has upgraded its server infrastructure with AMD’s latest generation EPYC Genoa-X processors armed with 3D V-Cache technology.Cloudflare reportsa 145% improvement in performance and a 63% improvement in efficiency over its previous generation servers, which were also EPYC-powered. The new “Gen 12” servers come with AMD’s EPYC 96-Core 9684XGenoa-Xprocessor featuring over one gigabyte of L3 cache. The system features 384GB of DDR5 4800MHz DDR5 memory operating in a 12-channel memory configuration, dual E1....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Catherine Johnson

Core Ultra 7 265 specifications exposed in a new benchmark — the unreleased Arrow Lake chip has a 200 MHz lower boost clock than the Core Ultra 7 265K

Intel has released the company’sCore Ultra 200S(codenamed Arrow Lake) in the shape of the K-series chips, such as theCore Ultra 9 285K, which competes against thebest CPUs. The non-K SKUs will arrive later;Benchleakshas uncovered an unannounced Core Ultra 7 265 in a Geekbench 6 GPU result. The test seems to have been runon a Lenovo desktop with the unlocked, lower-power version of Intel’s recently released Core Ultra 7 265K. However, Geekbench identified the Lenovo PC as “LENOVO F,” which isn’t a model name, making it hard to figure out what sort of desktop the Core Ultra 7 265 ran in....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · Leslie Owens

Corsair MP600 Core Mini 2TB SSD Review: Big Storage Without the Footprint

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Corsair MP600 Core Mini is a good counterpart to the original MP600 Mini, utilizing QLC instead of TLC to reach up to 2TB in the M.2 2230 form factor. Performance is good enough, but less impressive in sustained and PCIe 4.0 modes. Up to 2TB in M.2 2230 Good performance for PCIe 3.0 and the Deck Uses QLC NAND flash Lower PCIe 4.0 and sustained performance...

May 19, 2025 · 6 min · 1130 words · Robert Jenkins

Corsair MP700 Pro SE SSD review: New and improved

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Corsair MP700 Pro SE is Corsair’s second generation PCIe 5.0 SSD, this time making full use of the interface. It’s faster and Corsair offers multiple SKUs to keep everybody happy, but the drive breaks no new barriers. Top notch all around performance Good sustained write performance High power consumption High cost Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

May 19, 2025 · 7 min · 1337 words · Christopher Garza

Does a CPU Affect FPS? (Detailed Guide)

Everything you run on your computer is processed by the CPU, including graphics-intensive games. And afaster CPU meansbetter performanceand a higher FPS, in most cases. I emphasize in most cases because there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to FPS. Depending on your current system, there’salso a chance you may not get an FPS increase using a faster CPU. This is due to your GPU. CPU and GPU work together hand-in-hand when generating and rendering frames....

May 19, 2025 · 6 min · 1145 words · Michelle Beck

Doom ported to run directly from a PDF file — DoomPDF port runs at approximately 12.5 FPS

A high school student created aDoom(1993) port inside a PDF file. Ading2210 created DoomPDF, inspired by therecent release of Pdftris—Tetris(1985) in a PDF and a version ofBreakout(1976) ported to a PDF container several years ago. Like PDFtris, DoomPDF relies on the support of the document file format for Javascript. Still, this time, those interested in playing must fire up a Chromium-based browser to satisfy their curiosity. Ading2210 comments that the JS specification for Adobe Acrobat is extensive, supporting things you would expect to be well beyond its scope, like 3D rendering and monitor detection....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · David Collins