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Tom’s Hardware Verdict A great piece of hardware, but we can’t fully test it just yet. Once the supporting software is ready, we will revisit and update this review. It just works Cons Software is not there, yet 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. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere these days and even the humbleRaspberry Pi 5(and previous generations) are not immune to AI....

Raspberry Pi has another new product to introduce this week, a continuation of its AI-centric products for theRaspberry Pi 5. TheRaspberry Pi AI HAT+comes in two versions, a 13 and 26 tera-operations per second TOPS and continues its partnership withHailo. Fresh from the news thatRaspberry Pinow has itsown branded SSDs,micro SD cards and a bumperfor the Raspberry Pi 5. Raspberry Pi has also announced its third AI-centric product in the form of the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+....

Razer sought to show it can still impress with “groundbreaking innovations and futuristic technologies,” atCESthis year. Thus, besides its predictably refined and upgradedRazer Blade 16 laptop, it also shared two interesting gamer-focused projects it is working on. These were the Razer Project Ava AI gaming co-pilot and the Project Arielle heating and cooling chair. We experienced both these concept technologies first-hand at the Las Vegas show. Project Ava In Razer’s words, Project Ava promises to be “the ultimate AI gaming copilot....

A device called a quantum drum may serve as “a crucial piece in the very foundation for the Internet of the future with quantum speed and quantumsecurity”, says Mads Bjerregaard Kristensen, postdoc from the Niels Bohr Institute in a new research piece. The original research paper has an official briefing available for free onPhys.org, and can be found published in full in thePhysical Review Lettersjournal for a subscription fee.One key issue with quantum computing and sending quantum data (“qubits”) over long distances is the difficulty of maintaining data in a fragile quantum state — where losing data or “decohering” becomes a much higher risk....

Asus is bringing some snowy flair to its latest GPUs: the company justteasedwhite editions across its lineup ofRTX 50-seriesgraphics cards. These include the premium ROG Astral as well as the TUF Gaming, and Prime series. These new variants will be showcased at this year’sComputextrade show, which kicks off next week. The teaser only includes triple-fan (and quad-fan in case of the Astral) RTX 50-series graphics cards, which potentially means that Asus might not have plans to offer the same treatment for its dual-fan GPUs this year....

The RTX 5090 is supposed to be the crown jewel of gaming GPUs—a 600W monster designed for enthusiasts. But in China, a very different story is unfolding. A recent video fromBilibili creator Ajian Talkexposes a parallel production line where these consumer cards are stripped bare, rebuilt, and reborn as blower-style “Turbo” models for AI servers. We’ve seenAI-focused 5090s surfacing from China before, but this is a rare look into the actual process of how they’re made....

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. Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Nitro+: Big box aesthetics Sapphire’s RX 7900 GRE Nitro+ caters to the gamer that wants a good AMD GPU at the heart of their PC, and then they want to add some flare and aesthetics. If you’re just after a great performing graphics card for $500–$600, Sapphire’s Pulse line arguably does a better job at balancing price and performance....

Earlier this month,reportssuggested that Nvidia has added SK hynix as a GDDR7 supplier for its RTX 50 series GPUs, after previously only sourcing from Samsung. On Chiphell, a user recently got their hands on a Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 5070 Ti with SK hynix memory and found its overclocking potential similar to what we’ve seen from Samsung, viaUNIKO’s Hardware. While thermal and efficiency data are missing, this is nonetheless a positive indication....

You heard correctly, that Amazon is having a sale! TheAmazon Big Spring Salehas been taking place from March 20th to the 25th, 2024, and today is the last day. There is a selection of deals for all visitors, but, there will be someAmazon Primemember-exclusive deals also. We’re featuring a selection of tech deals of the main event from Amazon, and include products on sale from other tech retailers as well. We’ve even included a small section on items we’d love to see a deal on - so that you can easily track if the price has lowered or not....

Cases, cooling, power, and accessories brand Thermaltake has launched a new M.2 SSD cooler with an active fan, heatpipe, and heatsink for cooling. The newMS-1 M.2 2280 SSD Cooleris claimed to outclass an original passive heatsink, and third-party actively cooled rivals, to deliver noticeably better performance and the smoothest gaming experience (see video of tests, below). In its testing, Thermaltake used aCrucial T700 PCIe Gen5 SSD, and data regarding SSD performance and temperatures were shown via the on-screen UIs of CrystalDiskMark and HWInfo, respectively....

TheThermaltake Toughpower GF A3 850Wpower supply is available today at bothAmazonandNeweggfor its lowest price to date. It usually goes for around $129 but right now it’s discounted to just $94. It’s worth noting that this offer applies only to the 850W black edition but awhite versionis available for $99 at Newegg on backorder if you need the PSU match a preferred color scheme. Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 850W PSU: now $94 at AmazonandNewegg(was $129)Users in the market for an 850W power supply should look at this offer on the Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 850W PSU....

My beloved, daily driver laptop is a ThinkPad X1 Carbon that I bought all the way back in 2018. That’s the PC I take with me into the Tom’s Hardware office and use when I’m on trips or, at home, when I’m away from my home office and working from the couch. I love the Carbon for its light weight, world-class keyboard, wide selection of ports, accurate pointing stick (gotta have my nub) and bright screen....

Thunderbolt and USB-C are the common interfaces capable of carryingpower, data, and video. They are convenient to use as they have smaller connectors and thinner cables. Previously, USB-C and Thunderbolt 1 & 2 were completely different. But after the introduction of its third generation, both share the same connector with a similar pin configuration. Also, they can both charge your peripherals and connect to external storage devices quite easily. Looking at these similarities, USB-C users may have thought of switching to Thunderbolt, and vice versa....