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Tom’s Hardware Verdict Muscle-car looks and great cooling performance for $20 is a no-brainer, but there is competition in this price bracket. In your face aesthetic Solid build Cools SoC, PMIC and Wi-Fi chip PCIe access is awkward Has competition in its price bracket 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....

An AIB is reportedly preparing a dual-GPU variant of Intel’s rumored Arc B580 24GB, totalling 48GB of VRAM on a single board, viaVideoCardz. According to the source, this model is slated to be revealed atComputex 2025, which is just days away at this point. Specific details like the AIB, interconnect technology, and price are in the dark, but we can expect more details at the trade show, if the rumors are true....

An old Optima SP 26 electric typewriter has found a new purpose in life. Although the typewriter was unrepairable and lacked several internal parts, an inventiveRedditor, maniek-86, transformed it into a fully operational gaming typewriter. Space is a luxury in these projects, as one repurposes old devices into functioning personal computers. According to the Redditor, the Optima SP 26 had minimal room available. All components are closely packed within the typewriter, and sometimes some hot glue was necessary to keep everything in place....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Adata’s SC750 delivers true 10Gbps SSD speeds in a flash drive form factor with a retractable USB-C connector. Its width means it’s likely to block nearby ports, but it’s smaller than its main competition and nearly as fast. Much smaller than competing SK hynix drive Retractable USB-C port means there’s no cap to lose Will be available in 2TB capacity Cons Width means it will likely block adjacent ports...

Borderlands is a space-western / sci-fi /open-world / action-RPG shooter looter pasta. It’s a unique formula that includesfour main games, several campaign DLCs, two collections, a VR game, and various spin-offs. Gearbox Software created the series, and 2K is the main distributor. Their work amounts to25 Borderlands entries. Borderlands – 2009 (Main Series) The original game debuted in 2009 for PS3, Xbox 360, Windows, and Mac OSX. A 4K/HDRremastercame out in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC....

Ratchet & Clank is a3D platformer seriesthat mixes third-person shooter and puzzling elements. The franchise made a bold return to form with the latestRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart. It’s explosive, bombastic, and a brilliant showcase of what the PlayStation 5 can do. It’s time to look back on the entire series. New fans may find an older title to play across the17 Ratchet & Clank titles. That’snine main games, six spin-offs, one reboot, and one bundle....

AsHoang Anh Phu on Xspotted, AMD’s latest iteration of its Ryzen AI Software (version 1.2) adds support for new AMD silicon: Strix Halo and Kraken Point processors, which will compete against thebest CPUs. Patch notes reveal that AMD’s latest version of its Ryzen AI software features support for five new AMD chips. One is a new chip based on AMD’s older Phoenix silicon, while the latter four are all-newZen 5offerings. Two are Strix Point offerings featuring A0 and B0 steppings, while the last two chips are codenamed Strix Halo and “Krackan” (i....

Lenovo’sYoga 7 14AHP9 laptop, complete with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS APU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, is currently on sale for $300 off or $599.99 at Best Buy. This is its lowest-ever price point, but it has been on sale at this price several times in the past year. The price point alone is probably compelling for fans of Lenovo’s convertible Yoga form factor, which allows the device to be used as a touchscreen tablet, standard laptop, or even a self-standing tablet/screen for pure viewing purposes....

PC-Canada has posted preliminary listings of Intel’s soon-to-launchArrow Lakenon-K 65W CPUs on its website—in both boxed and tray variations, thanks tomomomo_uson X. While these prices are in no way indicative of the final MSRP, there is a slight upward trajectory—at least for the budget CPUs, but that could boil down to currency conversion and other factors. The shared images are rather messy, and you’d need a keen eye to spot and distinguish one SKU from the other....

Peter Wennink, the outgoing chief executive of ASML said in an interview withReutersthat even if the U.S. governmentrestricts the company from servicing some high-end chipmaking toolspreviously sold to Chinese customers, these limitations would not significantly impact ASML’s financial outlook from 2025 to 2030, as only a few Chinese fabs would be affected. Although China-based chipmakers cannot freely buy advanced wafer fab tools, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) has procured and installed plenty of sophisticated machines and can now produce chips on 7nm-class (and perhaps even 5nm-class) manufacturing technologies....

Asus has released a new BIOS update for select AMD motherboards, introducing the “Turbo Game Mode” designed to optimize gaming performance on a range of Ryzen processors. This mode is aimed at users seeking the best possible experience from AMD’s high-core CPUs by adjusting core usage. Specifically, it disables one of the CPU’s two chiplets (CCD) and turns off Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT), optimizing single-threaded performance for games that do not benefit from high core counts....

Asus has published the list of itsGeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 productson Reddit, which launched today and then sold out immediately afterward. As is typical for the company, Asus has a huge product family — four GeForce RTX 5080 and four GeForce RTX 5090 models — targeting different users. The lineup extends from base models with pseudo-MSRP pricing up to liquid cooled cards with healthy factory overclocks. Asus’s range-topping ROG Astral LC GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition targets the latter and will retail for a whopping $3,099....

North West Repair has ably demonstrated that “death by liquid metal” isn’t necessarily permanent. After analyzing and diagnosing a deceasedNvidia GeForce RTX 3090, the repair tech demonstrated dexterous GPU and VRAM chip removal, cleaning, reballing, replacement, and testing. Except for one of the VRAM chips requiring its solder balls to be reflowed a second time, the repair went without a hitch, and his customer must have been happy to get back a fully working (andstill potentin 2024) GeForce RTX 3090....