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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. Benchmarks and Conclusion Thermal results without power limits Without power limits enforced on Intel’s i7-13700K, the CPU will hit its peak temperature (TJ Max) and thermally throttle with even the strongest of air coolers. When the CPU reaches its peak temperature, I’ve measured the CPU package power to determine the maximum wattage cooled to best compare their performance....

Demand for AMD’s latestRadeonRX 9070-series graphics cards is so high that it is close to impossible to get aRadeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XTadd-in board (AIB) at its recommended price in the U.S., Europe, or just about anywhere else. In fact, AMD claims that its latest Radeon RX 9070 XT discrete GPU for desktop PCs is its most successful standalone AMD Radeon graphics card ever in terms of first-week sales....

When it comes to gaming mice for FPS titles, theLogitech G Pro X Superlight 2is one of the best mainstream options out there, without delving into arcane niche brands that try to “drop” stuff, or make you hang out on a weird waitlist. Sure, it’s shape is incredibly similar to the original Superlight, but why change what’s already great? Amazonhas discounted the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 to just $123....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Apple’s 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air are portable, thin, attractive laptops with great efficiency and performance. And they can finally support two external monitors. M2 owners don’t need to upgrade yet, but other Mac users may be enticed. Thin, light, powerful, and fanless Long battery life M3 now supports two external monitors (with the lid closed) 1080p webcam is sharp Excellent, accurate touchpad 15-inch version has excellent speakers...

The Machenike KT84, an 84-key mechanical keyboard,has launched on Kickstarterin a major way. Meeting its funding goal of $10,001 in only 14 minutes, the see-through keyboard is now at 450% only 3 days later and promises a host of features to excite anymechanical keyboardaficionado. The keyboard’s most obvious attraction is its pair of screens; a 490-dot pixel matrix spanning most of the top row, and a 1.47-inch TFT LCD display in the corner....

Micron demonstrated its massive 256 GB MCR DIMM memory modules this week at the Nvidia-hosted GPU Technology Conference (GTC). These modules are designed for next-generation servers, including those running Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Granite Rapids’ processors. Micron announced earlier this week that the new 256 GB MCRDIMMs are currently being sampled with its customers. Micron demonstrated one ‘tall’ 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM at GTC (pictured) but also plans to offer MCRDIMMs of standard height for applications like 1U servers....

If you’re patiently waiting forWindows 11’s 24H2 update to see aperformance bump for your Zen 3, Zen 4, or Zen 5 CPU, you no longer need to twiddle your thumbs. In a statement toTom’s Hardware, AMD said that the branch prediction optimizations allowing for those improvements have been backported to Windows 11 23H2.The update,KB5041587, can be found underWindows Update > Advanced options > Optional updates. “We expect the performance uplift to be very similar between 24H2 and 23H2 with KB5041587 installed,” an AMD spokesperson said....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The 2024 iteration of the Microsoft Surface Pro is a sleek, thin, long-lasting device with a beautiful OLED screen. But its new Snapdragon processors still have some app compatibility issues, and getting the new screen requires paying more for a different processor. Oh yeah, and you still have to pay extra for the keyboard. Long battery life Sleek design OLED display is beautiful Flex Keyboard is useful but pricey...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict MSI’s A13 360 AIO provides reasonable performance and noise levels for $99 USD. Low prices for an AIO Good thermal performance Pre-installed fans Cons 240mm version doesn’t provide much of a benefit compared to air coolers Only supports recent CPU platforms 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....

MSIofficially releasedthe pricing matrix for its MSI Claw, with configurations starting at $699.99 and going up to $799.99. Also, the big question regarding the Claw display’s variable refresh rate (VRR) support has been answered byThe Verge, which says the device’s 7-inch 1080p screen supports rates between 48-120Hz. We still don’t have a release date, however. MSI’s official pricing puts the Claw handheld gaming device on the pricier side of the spectrum....

The Nintendo switch may not be as powerful as its competitors, but it’s more creative. The creativity of its hybrid handheld design comes with a few shortcomings, though. For instance, the infamousorange screen error. The issue appears as a sudden orange color covering the entire screen with no error message. It could appear when you boot the console or remove it from the rest mode. No matter what you do, you can’t make it go away....

Retro gaming’s resurgence in recent years has led to some of the coolest devices that have made the genre accessible to many. From physical handhelds to software emulators, games from the past feel more in tune with the present than ever before. The latest in the series of these exciting releases is anultra-portable handheld made by Grant Sinclair, one that just happens to be the exact size of a retail gift card!...

Following last week’sopen sourcingof MS-DOS 4 andcritique, Twitter userVirtuallyFunshared their cutting-edge 16 MHz Intel i386 MS-DOS 4 install on the 1987IBMPersonal System/2, which mainly lives on today in its legacy PS/2 peripheral connectors. In its time, the IBM PS/2 could also have been paired with IBM’s PC DOS orMicrosoft-collabOperating System/2. This MS-DOS 4 install wasn’t done with the main Microsoft GitHub repo but instead VirtuallyFun’s owndos400branch. Dos400 forces the 4.0 version of MS-DOS andpatches out issues like a bug in msload....