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Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Viper V3 Pro is a comfortable, ultra-lightweight mouse with a wireless polling rate of up to 8,000 Hz. But if you’re not here for 8,000 Hz wireless polling, maybe it’s not for you. Ultra-lightweight (54g) and comfortable 8,000 Hz wireless polling Wired polling rate limited to 1,000 Hz Very similar to a lot of ultralight symmetrical mice 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....

This GPU faceoff between AMD’s RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) and Nvidia’s RTX 4070 takes a look at one of the most interesting GPU segments. Originally released as a China-exclusive GPU, the 7900 GRE is now available internationally at virtually identical pricing to the RTX 4070, and both rank among thebest graphics cards, making comparisons between these two GPUs an important look at how the two GPU behemoths compete.Since its international debut, theRX 7900 GREreceived a price cut from$649down to $549, putting it in direct competition with theRTX 4070....

A few Redditors have shared how they were able to score RTX 50 series GPUs at a significant discount despiteNvidia declaring a shortage, massive scalping (evenat the system integrator level), and inflated prices.PC Gamerspotted onepostfrom a person saying they bought a PNY RTX 5080 for $895.99 in Walmart after seeing it in the PC section as a return. The MSRP for this GPU is $1,279.99 — saving $384, or nearly 30% off the original price....

In layman’s terms, RTX Remix is the “Unreal Engine 5” of modding tools. With this tool, modders can create high-quality remasters of classic DirectX 8 or 9 games, giving them 2024-era AAA ray-tracing graphical features efficiently without the need to revamp the game engine. Most (if not all) of RTX Remix’s features are manipulated with a GUI, meaning that you don’t need to know a game’s source code in and out to mod the game or be a master programmer to use the tool....

Every new AMD generation seems to bring newly broken world records, and the dawn of Zen 5 is no exception. AMD’s in-house Extreme Overclocking team knocked down the 16-core records for Cinebench R23 and R15 on the Ryzen 9 9950X with the power of liquid nitrogen cooling, as shown during the company’s Zen 5 Tech Day. Perhaps most impressive is how the 9950X can beat 7950X’s highest scores with much lower clock speeds, taking home the crown in Cinebench R23 score with 55,046 points at 6....

Sam Altman’s comments on the prospects of startups hoping to break through in the AI business may have come back to bite him. Several posts on X (and probably other platforms) ridicule theOpenAIboss and co-founder’s dismissal of potential competition emanating from the startup scene, particularly those with only limited financial resources in the range of $10 million. Altman’s comments were made during a Q&A session after a ‘Conversations’ presentation to India VCs, recorded in June 2023....

Samsungreportedlydevelops the world’s first 27-inch OLED panel with a 1440p resolution and a 500 Hz refresh rate. This breakthrough, aimed at high-performance gaming monitors, sets a new benchmark for OLED display technology, surpassing the current maximum refresh rate of 480 Hz featured in models likeLG’s UltraGear 27GX790A-BandAsus’s ROG Swift PG27AQDP. Although Samsung’s release date and detailed specifications remain unconfirmed, industry sources indicate that the company is leveraging its cutting-edge QD-OLED technology....

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. Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB Performance Results Trace Testing — 3DMark Storage Benchmark Built for gamers, 3DMark’s Storage Benchmark focuses on real-world gaming performance. Each round in this benchmark stresses storage based on gaming activities including loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording gameplay video streams....

Silicon Motion has introduced its new single-chip controller for external solid-state drives that is designed to enable relatively inexpensive SSDs with a 40 Gb/s USB4 interface. The SM2324 controller can be used to build compact, low-power drives with up to 32TB capacity that offer a read throughput up to 4,000 MB/s. Silicon Motion’s SM2324 is a single-chip SSD controller based on two Arm Cortex-R5 cores that has four NAND channels with 32 CE targets that support 3D TLC and 3D QLC NAND devices with an up to 1,600 MT/s interface speed as well as a USB4 Gen3x2 (40 Gbps) host interface with Power Delivery 3....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The T-Create Expert DDR5-6000 C34 is a memory kit that’s worth considering if you’re not overly fixated on top-tier performance. Ample capacity Low-profile design Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO support Loose timings Bad overclocker 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. The T-Create Expert DDR5-6000 C34 is a new memory kit from TeamGroup that aims to rival thebest RAMon the retail market....

Texas Instruments (TI) hasenteredinto a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to get up to $1.6 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. This, along with an anticipated up to $8 billion in investment tax credits, will support the expansion of fabs in Texas and Utah and enable them to produce chips on specialty 28nm – 130nm nodes. The expansions will create thousands of jobs and strengthen the U....

Enermax, which is known for its high-end PC components like power supplies, cooling solutions, and PC cases, just showed off an immersion-cooling system atComputex 2025, designed to handle up to 3,300 watts of power. The Cirrus Mk1 uses two-phase liquid immersion cooling to effectively cool components. The thermally conductive dielectric liquid used for the system has a low evaporation point, allowing it to effectively transfer heat away from the CPU and GPU....

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will create the United States Investment Accelerator Office within the Department of Commerce. According to theWhite House, it “shall focus on delivering the benefit of the bargain for taxpayers by negotiating much better deals than those of the previous administration.” The order did not detail how this would affect already existing contracts and awards. There were hints that Trump did not like President Biden’sCHIPS and Science Actstrategy to get semiconductor investments into the U....