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Right now is a great time to get your hands on one of thebest gaming monitorson the market. As part of a Memorial Day weekend sale, you can find theDell S3222DGMfor $279, one of its best prices to date. It’s worth noting that we’ve seen this monitor get as low as $239 during Black Friday last year so this isn’t the lowest price ever. However, it’s still one of the best we’ve seen and it’s especially remarkable given that it has a recommended price of $349....

We’ve seen our fair share ofRaspberry Picyberdecks over the years but nothing beats the appeal of a nice Pelican case. Today we’ve got a great example to share of just such a build created by maker and developer Jake Simek. He’s using aRaspberry Pi 4as the main board and has dubbed his build thePelican Deck. According to Simek, this was his first attempt at ever building a cyberdeck. He wanted to create an all-in-one device capable of supporting BadUSB scripts and whatever else he felt like throwing at it....

AMD’s latestRadeon RX 9070series is among thebest graphics cardsgamers can purchase. Thanks to Yeston, they may also be among the best-smelling graphics cards around, as the company has integrated fragrance dispensers in Team Red’sRDNA 4offerings. Computer hardware manufacturers have long been adding RGB lighting to every component they can think of. That trend isn’t going away anytime soon, but a few companies seem to have locked on to another trend: scented hardware....

IfWindows 1124H2’s install size is too big for you, there are methods to reduce its footprint significantly. NTDEV revealedon Xthat Windows 11 24H2 works with its Tiny11 ISO builder, enabling super small installs of Microsoft’s new version of Windows 11. Tiny11 can shrink 24H2 into such a tiny install package that it can fit inside a DVD with the capacity to spare. NTDEV shared a screenshot of a new clean install of Windows 11 24H2 made with Tiny 11, featuring a complete install size of just 3....

A hypervisor runs on a physical host and partitions the host’s resources among various virtual environments. There are two types of hypervisors. Type 1, or bare-metal hypervisors, are installed directly on top of the physical host or server. Type 2, or hosted hypervisors, instead have an OS layer between it and the physical host. The way Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisors perform virtualization, the resource access and allocation, performance, and other factors differ quite a lot....

Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions, just released its latest version ­— Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole.’ This is the second update for 2024, six months after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘Noble Numbat’ and following Canonical’s usual release schedule. However, given that this is the first update following an LTS (or Long-Term Support) update, we expect several new features. The most significant change, asOMG!Ubuntunotes that ARM64 devices now use GNOME Initial Setup, which offers a cleaner, slicker way of setting up the operating system after the first install....

An unverified BIOS for the Asus ROG Astral 5090D has been leaked online, showing a board power limit of 2,001 watts —almost three and a half times higher than the standard 575-watt power limit on the vanilla RTX 5090. As spotted byUNIKO’s Hardware, this is an unverified BIOS file, warning its users to “exercise caution when flashing it to your graphics card, and always have a backup.” Aside from that, you probably need custom power delivery that can handle that amount of power, as even the standard connectors that come with the RTX 5090 areprone to meltingwhile running at the standard power level....

Update 15-07-2025 03:09 PT MSI has released abrief statementwhich acknowledges the report, and states that it is investigating the issue. “Recently, we received a user report indicating damage to an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D processor on an MSI MAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFI motherboard. At MSI, we are fully committed to the quality of our products and have begun investigating this incident.” Original Article OneRedditorand one user from theQuasarrzone forumshave provided feedback on how theirRyzen 7 9800X3D, one of thebest CPUs, has burned out....

If you’ve been in the market for a new gaming keyboard, you should look at this offer fromAmazonon theAsus ROG Strix Scope II gaming keyboard. It usually costs around $119, but today, according to CamelCamelCamel, it’s marked down to its lowest price ever—just $69. This gaming keyboard line has received much praise for its various size options and connection types. Today’s discount is for the wired 100% edition. We took the opportunity to review the 96% wirelessAsus ROG Strix Scope IIlate last year....

While most people enjoy PCs that are powered by SSDs, mechanical hard drives are still king in the datacenter. When these drives reach the end of their useful lives, they are usually shredded, and the key materials they’re made of – including several rare earth elements (REE) – end up as e-waste. At the same time, countries are mining these same materials and emitting a lot of greenhouse gases in the process....

WDhas been ordered to pay $262M in damages after a patent infringement case relating to hard disk drive (HDD) recording technologies concluded. A jury in California agreed with MR Technologie of Germany’s lawyers, who claimed that WD flagrantly applied patented IP “on a massive scale.” WD is accused of using this tech, starting from 2018, to boost the areal density of its HDDs from about 300 Gbit/sq in to 1,000 Gbit/sq in, reportsBlocks and Files....

One of the major problems with a standard Wi-Fi router is weak signals and dead spots. While adopting a Wi-Fi extender is beneficial in expanding the wireless coverage, you still require manually switching between the different SSIDs. To solve this, a Mesh network would be an ideal option. It uses two or moreaccess points. Each node lets you connect to one Wi-Fi network seamlessly (having the same SSID). However, this big-budget product might not be the best fit for everyone....

Western Digital’s My Passport is an ideal external drive choice among most Windows users. If it doesn’t show up in File Explorer despite the LED light indicating it’s working fine, you might feel that your money has gone down the drain. But you need not worry, as this is a common issue among those who recently migrated their drive or upgraded to Windows 11. The problem can lie within your computer, operating system, or the My PassportHDD or SSDitself....