Lenovo, HP, andDell, the world’s three largest PC vendors, are reportedly exploring expansion options in Saudi Arabia. According toDigitimes, Saudi Arabia is actively recruiting tech manufacturers with facilities in China to relocate to the Arabian Peninsula as fears of tariff insecurities heighten.The three tech giants are all in different stages of starting production facilities in or near Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh. Lenovo has alreadydeclared its plansto build a PC and server assembly factory in Riyadh, and is backed by a $2 billion investment from a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Toshiba N300 Pro is a decent HDD, particularly at its lower capacities. Its peak performance is good enough and NAS optimization makes it a safe choice for multi-drive environments for homelabs and small businesses, with price as always being a major factor. Good performance and pricing in the 12-18TB range 512MB of cache at 10TB and up Not the fastest or best-supported 20TB option Pricing and availability issues for 20TB...

Listings and corresponding price points for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor have begun popping up on retailers around the web. This probably signals the Ryzen 9000 X3D Series' imminent release and should help solidify expectations of a general pricing range. The highest price we’ve seen so far, and the first we saw through @harukaze5719 on Twitter, is a Shotblt.com listing for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D priced at $524.62. https://t.co/UTKMcS2qqt pic....

In a move that seems to reflect an ever-greedier gaming industry insistent on selling us things no one asked for, Ubisoft has finally stealth-launched its first-ever PvP blockchain RPG title,Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles —complete with playable-characters-as-NFTs, purchasable through in-game currency or cryptocurrency, as spotted byIGN. What’s notable here is the pricing scheme: the most expensive character at launch is Inquisitor Swift Zealot, which will cost a whopping $63,372.19 USD, converted from crypto....

The water for Intel keeps getting hotter amidst ongoing 13th Gen and 14th Gen CPU crashing issues. On July 9, Warframe developers added to the fire by reporting bothWarframeplayer crash statisticsand even a developer who was experiencing the same issue. As noted by theWarframeteam, the staff member in question wasn’t overclocking and was even using a new PC, but even the most basic in-game tasks resulted in hard crashes. Surprisingly, stress testing similar machines across the Warframe dev team did not show similar results....

Dell’s XPS line consists of high-end desktops and laptops. The desktops live up to their reputation and are pretty reliable. The laptops aren’t bad either, but one recurring issue I’ve seen with XPS laptops is that they don’t turn on. Troubleshooting a Dell XPS laptop that doesn’t turn on is usually pretty easy though, thanks to the diagnostic indicators. The pattern of the LEDs and beeps will point you to the exact component that has failed....

The 2024 World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) organizers arecalling for entrants. Scheduled for March 19, the bare metal vs. raw power event is set to become a must-watch experience of the annual CloudFest conference. According to the dedicated event page,serverthrowing began in Holland about a decade ago and is an “intense underground sport, which has been criticized as ‘needlessly brutal to servers’.” This sport is now emerging from its data-center basement origins and is set to enter the world stage at CloudFest 2024....

Korean cases and cooling specialist Zalman Technologies has released the jet-engine inspiredZet5 CPU coolerto retail. According to Korea’sQuasar Zone, this appealingly curvy cooler has been released on its home turf with a special offer. The black model with be marketed at 77,00KRW ($55.60) and the white model for 79.000 KRW ($57.00), with prices expected to rise after August 25. First impressions are that enthusiasts will be paying a premium for the unique design....

China’s aggressive push to develop a domestic semiconductor industry has largely been successful. The country now has fairly advanced fabs that can produce logic chips using 7nm-class process technologies as well as world-class 3D NAND and DRAM memory devices. However, there are numerous high-profile failures due to missed investments, technical shortcomings, and unsustainable business plans. This has resulted in numerous empty fab shells — zombie fabs — around the country, according toDigiTimes....

The right mouse button is mostly used for bringing up the context menu. It is super important as the context menu is used nearly every time you want to modify or change anything on your computer. So, it is nigh-impossible to properly use your computer without accessing the context menu. But, what if you need to bring up the context menu without right-clicking your mouse? This can be quite handy when your mouse isn’t working, or if you want to maximize your productivity by making sure your hand doesn’t leave the keyboard....

The arrival of energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technologies likeSeagate’s HAMRwill play a crucial role in accelerating HDD capacity growth in the coming years. According to the newIEEE International Roadmapfor Devices and Systems Mass Data Storage, we will see 60 TB hard disk drives in 2028. If the prediction is accurate, we will see HDD storage capacity doubling in just four years, something that did not happen for a while. Also, IEEE believes that HDD unit sales will increase....

Keeping tabs on your CPU is one way to check the overall health of your system. Since the CPU handles all, if not most, processes, it is one of the components determining a PC’s health. Even though you can monitor the temperature from BIOS, other vital information such as, its fan speed, core utilization and power consumption cannot be obtained with practical accuracy. Third party applications that are found on the internet offers you these feature....

You’re likely to see the error “Windows Resource Protection Found Corrupt Files But Was Unable to Fix Some of Them” when you’re already experiencing computer problems. Slower performance, crashes, orglitchesare the expected results of corrupted system files, so it’s something that you should address and repair right away. Often the problems can be solved by the scans fixing the errors they find, but sometimes if they can’t, you have to do more involved fixes manually....