You can use a full-sized GPU with ASRock's new Mini PC — DeskMate X600 only for China, priced at roughly $193 USD

ASRock’s new DeskMate X600 Mini PC, for sale at Chinese retailerJD.com[h/t ITHome.com], rounds out the existingASRock Mini PClineup. It also comes with some interesting if questionable design decisions. We’ll dive into that in a little bit, but the barebones kit includes just the case and a CPU cooler, starting at roughly $193 USD. A fully-specced version with a Ryzen 7 8700G will cost around $635 USD. ASRock DeskMate X600 Mini PC core specifications With the basics of the ASRock DeskMate X600 established, let’s focus on that top-mounted PCIe slot....

June 14, 2025 · 3 min · 487 words · Michael Martinez

$1,600 aluminum Icebreaker keyboard breaks the bank — sports metal chassis, keycaps with 800 micro-perforations, and VIA support

Serene Industrieshas finally pulled the veil off its long-anticipated Icebreaker keyboard, featuring a 65% design with the main chassis and keycaps constructed entirely from Aluminium. The main body is CNC-machined using a solid block of 6061 Aluminium, shaped in a rather unconventional wedge design. Now available at their online store, the Icebreaker will set you back $1,600, but most of this cost is due to the intricate design process and aesthetics....

June 13, 2025 · 2 min · 409 words · Jacqueline Silva

'[The] Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p and have no use for more than 8GB of memory': AMD justifies RX 9060 XT's 8GB of VRAM

AMD’s latest RX 9060 XT GPUs continue the saga of bifurcating mainstream options into different memory configurations for market segmentation. According to AMD’sFrank Azor, the 8GB flavor of the RX 9060 XT is designed to cater to the needs of the majority of gamers, who play at 1080p. Gamers and developers have long bemoaned constrained memory capacities with modern GPUs. Even at 1080p, many demanding AAA titles can overwhelm 8GB GPUs, as confirmed byprofessional testingwith cards like theRTX 5060 Ti 8GB....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 585 words · Katherine Parks

'World's smallest' Wii is the size of a deck of cards, uses custom PCBs

The world of custom console (re)building is brimming with makeshift handheld and “Mini” versions of classic or current consoles — recently, the custom Nintendo Wii scene saw the introduction of another contender for “smallest Nintendo Wii.” TheShort Stack, posted on GitHub with recreation instructions by James Smith aka “loopj”, is a fully-functioning Nintendo Wii trimmed and stripped down to the size of a deck of playing cards with the use of custom PCBs and3D printing....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 519 words · Joy Sosa

12 diehard Razer fans got tattoos of the Razer Toaster — 5 years later, they're still patiently waiting for it to come out

Five years ago, outspoken Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan made a promise to his fans: The company, which makes gaming gear, laptops, bags, and chairs, would make a toaster — which the community was clamoring for. In 2013, Australian streamer Mark Withers started a Facebook page called “Give us the Razer Toaster,” with the idea that it would be funny (and cool) to have an appliance put the Razer logo on bread....

June 13, 2025 · 15 min · 3143 words · Joe Smith

12 Ways to Fix “Unknown USB Device Descriptor Request Failed”

If you ever wonder what makes a computer recognize a USB device you connect, it’s because of a device descriptor feature. So, when you get an error message on the device manager saying, “UnknownUSB (Device Descriptor Request Failed),” it means that the computer has issues detecting a USB device’s basic information. So when this happens, the computer fails to connect with the device you just inserted. What Is A Device Descriptor?...

June 13, 2025 · 7 min · 1394 words · Cody Pitts

34-inch OLED Ultrawide gaming monitor has never been cheaper for Cyber Monday — Phillips Evnia 34M2C8600 goes on sale for just $569

Before Cyber Monday, the Phillips Evnia 34M2C8600 has gone on sale for 29% off, costing just$569.99instead of its original $799.99 MSRP. This monitor, released mid-2023, is a 34-inch 175 Hz OLED 21:9 Ultrawide monitor with support for DisplayHDR True Black 400, a curved screen, and a resolution of 3440 x 1440 (WQHD). This is a genuinely feature-rich monitor, and our original review rated it 4.5/5 stars, even at its original pricing....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 543 words · Donna Price

[Solved] NVIDIA Installer Cannot Continue

you’re able to get the “NVIDIA Installer cannot continue” error message while trying to run the.exeinstaller. You may also get a similar error while installing the driver from GeForce Engine. It also comes with different additional messages that indicate the exact nature of the error. The first two solutions below correspond to the initial two error messages in the list above. If you have any other errors, it’s best toskip straight to the third solution....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 593 words · Jennifer Reyes

AI can snoop on your computer screen using signals leaking from HDMI cables — researchers develop new AI model that enables using antennas for long-range attacks

Researchers in Uruguay have uncovered a way forhackers to use AI to snoopon what’s shown on your display by intercepting leaked electromagnetic radiation from the cable between your computer and monitor. They say such attacks are probably already happening, but home PC users don’t have much to worry about. The attacks can be done through multiple methods, including by using antennas placed outside a building to intercept signals from HDMI cables....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Sherry Medina

Amazon just deployed its one-millionth robot in its warehouses, and they'll soon outnumber humans — generative AI to help cut robot fleet travel time by 10%

Amazonhas revealed that the company has just deployed its one millionth robot in its operations. The milestone droid was deployed to a fulfilment center in Japan. In apress release, the company also revealed it has a new generative AI foundation model that will help improve robot fleet travel efficiency by 10%, supporting faster delivery times and reducing costs for consumers. Crucially,WSJreports that Amazon is now on the brink of having more robots in its warehouses than humans....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 498 words · Bryan Petty

AMD Instinct MI300A data center APU underperforms against mainstream CPUs in Geekbench — MI300A submissions show lower performance than a Core i5-14600K

AMD’s bleeding-edgeInstinct MI300Adata center APU has been tested in Geekbench 6.3.0. Discovered byBenchLeakson X, the pair of MI33A APUs performed seemingly worse than aCore i5-14600Kacross three runs. The APU showed up as “AMD Proto Sample: SH5-MI300A-A0,” somewhat implying that it could be a prototype sample. According to the submissions, the MI300A was tested on a platform called “AMD Corporation Eviden2p,” consisting of a dual-socket design. Therefore, the system had 48 cores and 96 threads, as each MI300A wields 24 Zen 4 execution cores....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Emma Carter

AMD RDNA 3 professional GPUs with 48GB can beat Nvidia 24GB cards in AI — putting the 'Large' in LLM

AMD is swinging back at Nvidia with new DeepSeekbenchmarksthat claim its monster 48GB RDNA 3 GPUs can outperform Team Green’s previous-generation RTX 4090.David McAfee, AMD vice president and general manager of Ryzen CPUs and Radeon graphics,posted on Xthat theRadeon Pro W7900and Pro W7800 48GB cards can outperform an RTX 4090 by up to 7.3x inDeepSeek R1. McAfee shared a graph of the three GPUs benchmarked in several iterations of DeepSeek R1 using LM Studio 0....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 590 words · Laurie Beck

AMD Threadripper 9000 “Shimada Peak” CPU surfaces in shipping manifest — next-gen Zen 5 HEDT chip sports 96 cores and 192 threads

NBD shipping manifests for AMD’s Zen 5 Threadripper CPUs, codenamed “Shimada Peak” and most likely corresponding to a Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, have been spotted as of the earliest hours of this morning/latest hours of last night. NBD is a shipping manifest platform well-known for providing information like this, and this time around, Twitter userOlrak29_is the one who initially spotted the Shimada Peak shipping manifests, which include some limited specifications....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 526 words · Amy Spence