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We test the best gaming PCs with our typical gauntlet of real-world and synthetic benchmarks to measure overall prebuilt system performance.

Nvidia has launched two new entry-level GPUs featuring its last-generation Ampere architecture. The A1000 looks like a professional variant of the RTX 3050 8GB, but the A400 is much less powerful.

Micro Center is giving criminally low offers via its GPU trade-in program, and reportedly offered just $700 for an MSI RTX 4090 Gaming Trio that typically sells for over $1,350 on eBay - for a used card.

Beefed-up Nvidia A100 (Ampere) GPUs have emerged in the Chinese second-hand market. These GPUs include more memory and processing cores than the normal retail variants, and would also be subject to U.S. export restrictions if they weren't already in China.

Chinese PC part company Jonsbo has added a highly sought-after addition to their lineup, a smaller version of the beloved C6 chassis dubbed the C6-ITX.

Quantum drums capable of storing and converting existing light data (i.e. fiber optic cables) may be integral to the future of a quantum-powered Internet with interconnected quantum computing devices.

Thanks to a $50 discount the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU is down to its lowest-ever price at computer retailer Dell.

Intel outlined its use of AI tools in chip design, which were used to optimize SoC layouts starting with Meteor Lake and slashed the time needed for some of the firm's semiconductor design processes from six weeks to just minutes. It detailed plans to increase the use of AI design tools in future architectures.

We look at the RTX 4070 and RX 7900 GRE for this GPU faceoff, comparing the newly discounted Nvidia card against AMD's formerly-for-China Golden Rabbit. It's a showdown between two cards that cost right around $550.

TrendForce reports continued increases in memory prices for NAND and DRAM, pointing at the Taiwan earthquake and hugely increased demand as root causes. Several major manufacturers aren't even based in Taiwan, and production cuts last year were intended to bring about higher prices.

Micah Tilton is using a Raspberry Pi to operate an Etch A Sketch using stepper motors and converting images into Etch A Sketch-friendly files.

Huaxia Chip was a rising star among China's original computer processor intellectual property (IP) designers. However, despite the voracious appetite for all-things IT, the company is now bankrupt and will be liquidated.

AMD announced its Ryzen Pro portfolio today as it extended the 'Hawk Point' 8040-series to commercial laptop and workstation users while simultaneously offering its Ryzen 8000 APU models for commercial desktop PCs.

Asus' ROG Swift PG49WCD delivers maximum color from a 49-inch 32:9 curved OLED panel. With DQHD (5120x1440) resolution, 144 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and HDR10, it has a stunning picture with the widest color gamut I've yet measured from an OLED.

The Infineon team is using a Raspberry Pi with their latest HAT to make the tentacles wiggle on a 3D-printed figurine of the GitHub Octocat mascot.

Asus has unveiled a brand new flagship monitor boasting the most potent combination of specs we've seen on a professional monitor. It comes with an 8K resolution, 1200 nit peak brightness, and a Mini LED backlight.

The Minisforum V3 tablet is the latest Ryzen 7 Hawk Point-powered PC to join the market

StorageReview put an RTX A4000 into a QNAP NAS, enabling a local flavor of ChatGPT that runs securely, powered by your data.

PC cooling manufacturer Lamptron has been discovered to be bundling illegal AIDA64 activation keys with most (if not all) of its LCD-equipped products, including air coolers and hardware monitoring displays.

You can grab the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) gaming laptop at Best Buy with $250 knocked off of the usual retail price.

A paper released during the SIGBOVIK 2024 conference details an attempt to simulate the IBM quantum utility' experiment on a Commodore 64. The authors claim the experiment was a success.

Gigabyte's new XTREME Prestige Limited Edition hardware duo promises exclusivity and luxury, for those who can afford its unknown price tag.

Samsung's next-generation 290-layer 3D NAND will use string stacking, says report.

A group of researchers from China and Singapore recently published a paper detailing the challenge of getting an AI to play RDR2. In their conclusion, major issues facing the AI gaming agent are laid at the door of the GPT-4V vision system.

The Logitech G Pro X 60 is a great compact gaming keyboard for anyone concerned about missing dedicated keys. Thanks to great programmability, it's more functional than most other gaming keyboards with the same layout. Just be prepared to pay for the privilege.

The iBuyPower Y60 Gaming Desktop uses a top-notch case that's sure to wow, and comes with better cooling and more RAM than the competition.

The Tuxedo Sirius 16 Gen2 is an AMD Linux gaming laptop that comes with the Kubuntu-based Tuxedo OS, Ubuntu LTS, Kubuntu LTS, or Ubuntu Budgie LTS.

An x86 boot sector Ray Tracer, inspired by Ray Tracer for Atari 8-bit Basic, brings some real-time RT rendering to 90s-era hardware.

Spectra Cube features support for Amazon S3 and boasts of ease of use and maintenance, running at up to 81TB/hr throughput with compressed data.

A hardware and software enthusiast, who admits he likes a little nonsense, has added microtransactions to DOOM. We searched for some deeper meaning, but perhaps it is just nonsense.

Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Debian Linux machine.

The wealth that can be gained from helping to propel a successful company is vividly illustrated by some recent tales of 'mid-level' Nvidia employees, with one claimed to have accrued a fortune of $62 million through the company share scheme.

MattKC painstakingly ports .NET to Windows 95 from Windows 98, enabling many applications that would not otherwise work.

Microsoft fixes a bug preventing PCs with specific Intel drivers from using Windows 11 without crashes and allows affected PCs to upgrade from Windows 10.

With a price tag of $279, the Velop Micro is about $100 more expensive than similar Wi-Fi 6 mesh routers and priced close to Wi-Fi 6E mesh routers.

MSI has published new BIOS updates featuring AMD's latest AGESA 1.1.7.0 firmware update, incorporating "next-gen" CPU support for its upcoming Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs.

This new drive destruction tool vibrates HDDs into their parts in 8 to 90 seconds.

Western Digital has created a new travel luggage carry case with 368TB of high-speed NVMe SSD storage with an Ice Lake server.

The Acer Nitro ED240Q Sbiip is currently available at Walmart for just $81 instead of the recommended $199.

The U.S. government added Sitonholy, one of China's largest solution providers based on Intel and Nvidia processors, to the Entity List.

The Western Digital-owned SanDisk continues to push the envelope in SD card storage and speeds.

We've all been there. The pandemic forced many of us to work from home and that meant getting used to being on camera. But sometimes our cameras failed to work. In this how to we cover the biggest gotcha" to impact many Windows users.

Knight Rider Historians show off this incredible Raspberry Pi-powered KITT replica that uses ChatGPT to imitate conversation.

Jim Keller advises Nvidia to use Ethernet to stitch two Blackwell GPUs in GB200.

EKWB has developed a brand new AIO specifically for delidded LGA-1700 coolers. The new cooler was designed specifically for the flood of new PC users that are delidding Intel's latest 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core CPUs.

Creality improves the flagship K1 with an upgraded model.

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