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Asus is using Intel’s Lunar Lake launch at IFA to update its Zenbook S14 and Vivobook S14, alongside itsenterprisefocused ExpertBook P5. All three devices are designed for thin notebooks with 14-inch displays and are set to launch this year. The flagship is the Asus Zenbook S14, which hasn’t changed much from recent designs. You still get the ceramic aluminum (sorry, “ceraluminum”) with CNC milling, and Asus is still fitting a USB Type-A port among the two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the thin design....

Asus just released the third iteration of its twin-fan RTX 4060 graphics card. The Asus Dual RTX 4060 V3 uses a simpler fan shroud design and smaller fans compared to earlier versions, but it also delivers a slightly smaller design. Nevertheless, it has the same clock speed and recommended power supply as the older versions. Here’s the comparison of the three generations of the Asus Dual RTX 4060, plus a couple more 4060 GPUs from other brands....

Asus plans to have a ROG Ally gaming handheld successor ready later this year, according toTechlusive. On Wednesday, the India-based tech site extracted this ROG Ally 2 news nugget from Asus India VPArnold Su. Su was interviewed after theAsus ZenBook 14 OLEDlaunch event in India earlier in the day. “We most likely will launch a second-generation [handheld gaming console] this year,” said Su to Techlusive. However, it was good to hear a little more detail about the direction for the second-generation handheld....

Computex2024 is a full month away, scheduled to run from June 3 to June 6 in Taipei, with PC hardware companies of all sizes preparing to showcase new products. Interestingly, the showcase planned by Asus has beenconveniently leakedby VideoCardz, which shared a listing with multiple notebooks featuring processors from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SoCs. The leaked table also mentions an AsusROG Ally 2024, which we talked about a few months ago, and we are eager to see what new changes it brings to the table....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict At $699 and with no comparables, the Hero stands alone. It’s one of the better-looking X870E boards and comes handsomely equipped with three PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 sockets and plenty of AI/EZ DIY features to make building and upgrading easier. But you can buy similarly configured boards for less. Same launch price as X670E Hero Improved aesthetics 5x M.2 sockets (3x PCIe 5.0) Supports 60W PD/QC4+ charging...

A trio of Asus GeForce RTX 5060 graphics cards has been listed at Best Buy in the U.S. (h/tmomomo_us). These RTX 5060 retail pages appear to have been published a week too early. Perhaps more importantly, they are coming in at prices significantly above thetouted $299 starting price, ranging between $340 and an eye-watering $410. The retailer listings, now deleted, provide prices and may confirm some key details of the yet-to-launch RTX 5060 graphics cards from the Asus Prime (regularandOC) and TUF (OC) families....

Sitting between Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 3080 in performance, the Radeon RX 7700 XT from AMD offers performance at a better bang-for-back price ratio than the competition. Yes, it may not perform as well in ray tracing applications, but, for pure rasterization and the ability to play games at reasonable frame rates on a gaming PC, it’s certainly a great offer to consider. Matching its previous lowest-ever price, thisASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card, is available from Newegg for $429....

As a high-tech giant whose capabilities span from ‘almost’ fundamental research to end-user consumer products, Huawei has been targeted by the U.S. government’s sanctions for quite a while amid suspicions of ties with the Chinese military. However, according to data from theChinese Business Network(CBN), the company has adapted to sanctions as its consumer business revived in the first half of the year. Before we dive into details, which are hard to do without knowledge of what we do know so far, we should know that what we do know is based on third-party reports....

Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs are some of the most complex semiconductor devices ever built, significantly increasing their manufacturing, packaging, and testing difficulty. According to theFinancial Times,citing Doug Lefever, the chief executive of Advantest, it takes three to four times longer to testBlackwell data center GPUsthan Hopper data center GPUs because each unit has to be tested dozens of times on different tools before shipping. An Nvidia BlackwellB100/B200GPU consists of two compute chiplets packing 104 billion transistors alongside eight HBM3E memory chiplets interconnected using an interface enabled byTSMC’s CoWoS-L packaging technology....

Valve’s handheldSteam Deckis best known for its potential as a handheld gaming PC, but as it turns out, the Deck can also be used as a mini-PC in its own right, even after the screen has been broken and the Deck has been broken down for parts. Earlier today, YouTuber ETA PRIME showcased a video where he successfully extracted the motherboard and SoC from a Steam Deck to create a mini-PC....

There are a couple of choices for cooling your CPU in your PC build: air cooling, a custom water loop, or an AIO (All in One) liquid loop and radiator. Today’s deal features an AIO cooling solution from Corsair, that also comes with Corsair’s iCUE link hardware for connecting to multiple RGB fans for illuminating your PC with whatever color scheme you can think of. TheCorsair H100i RGB 240mm AIO liquid CPU cooler with iCUE link is available at Amazon for its lowest-ever price of $74....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Sporting an attractive curved glass design, the Cougar FV270 is good, but not ground-breaking. GPU bracket included Attractive curved glass design A lot of cooling capability Expensive GPU thermals aren’t great 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. Remember when you could only see into your PC through a small, likely scratched-up acrylic window?...

Users will now have fewer SATA-based SSDs since Crucial is no longer manufacturing its popular seven-year-oldMX500. Users alsonoticedthat Crucial mentioned the same when claiming a warranty and providing alternatives like the Crucial P3 NVMe drive or any remaining MX500 that can be shipped. you’re able to still purchase Crucial MX500 viaAmazonand other retailers while stocks last. “The Crucial MX500 was certainly a great drive. We are making room in the line for new products and are looking forward to sharing what’s next with you soon,” a Crucial representative told German news outletComputerbase....