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Priced around $230, the ASRock PG Z790 Riptide provides users with everything the Z790 platform offers. This includes native 14th-gen support, capable power delivery, five M.2 sockets (one PCIe 5.0) and eight SATA ports, and an appearance (with RGBs) that fits most build themes.

The AGI AI818 is fairly underwhelming but could be useful as an ultra-cheap storage device for a secondary, gaming, or PS5 SSD. Its performance and efficiency however are lacking for laptop and primary desktop use.

Seagate reportedly second sources heating lasers for HAMR heads from Sony.

Elliot Coll shows off a cool tiny retrogaming handheld that features an RP2040 microprocessor with a design that resembles an original Game Boy.

ASML's revenues in calendar 2023 are by $3 billion dollars higher than Applied Materials's revenue in 2023.

Facing industry rumors of Xbox bowing out ahead of leaked exclusives being ported, Microsoft Xbox executives double down on the future of Xbox. Some questions remain on Xbox console hardware in the long-term, but the brand is here to stay.

A research paper has concluded that the slow pace of fab construction in the U.S. is largely down to suboptimal regulation.

Leading mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon brand has finally arrived in the audible realm. It hopes its new sonic logo will become as iconic as the sounds associated with NBC, Netflix, and McDonald's.

A very rare LaserDisc prototype has been sold on eBay for the eye-watering sum of $1,000. Yet there is no content description for the Philips-made HD Mac 12 Glass Plate N.66733 - Laserdisc Prototype, which looks old and possibly deteriorating.

A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.

PopCnt is a CPU instruction that will be required to run Windows 11 starting with 24H2. But unlike TPM or Secure Boot, enthusiasts have found that the PopCnt requirement cannot be bypassed. Any attempts to bypass it lead to boot failure.

Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI announced a new generative tool dubbed Sora (the Japanese word for sky). It is OpenAI's most ambitious development to date, able to generate complex high-definition videos up to a minute long from a text or image prompt.

The Meteor Lake-equipped MSI Claw was trounced by the Phoenix-powered ROG Ally in an early review, especially at low TDPs.

Cooler Master makes Mini LED affordable with the Tempest GP2711. It's a 27-inch QHD VA panel with 576 dimming zones, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR 1000 and extended color. It also supports accurate color with selectable gamuts.

A recent Tweet from Printables.com highlights a Modular ITX PC Case designed by Haydn Bao, available on their website. We discuss in more detail.

Over 2,600 benchmark runs in SPEC CPU 2017 on Intel CPUs have been invalidated because of a very specific compiler optimization.

Nvidia's Eos supercomputer can offer 18.4 ExaFLOPS of FP8 AI performance.

Lian Li showed off a prototype of its next standing PC desk case project. The desk features a huge 30' transparent OLED display from LG that sits right above your PC components below.

Want to keep your old Windows 10 PC, but maintain support after October, 2025? Google says to use ChromeOS Flex.

With a third knocked off the price of this Corsair HS55 wired stereo gaming headset, you're getting a pair of fantastic gaming cans for just $39 - superb value.

gpulist.ai is perhaps the first and only website GPU clusters can be put up to rent.

Intel may be looking forward to expand or upgrade site near Leixlip, Ireland.

AMD readies Ryzen 8000GE and Ryzen Pro 8000GE processors with 35W wattage.

Nvidia becomes world's 4th most valuable company, TSMC is now world's 10th most valuable company.

AMD's Ryzen 7000 series CPUs with 3D-VCache technology are all on discounts right now, with the 7900X3D going on its best sale ever.

Chinese workshops recycle and modify the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti into AI accelerators during the AI boom.

Intel's most powerful 14th Generation Core processor will launch in about a month, according to sources speaking to Benchlife in China.

The latest update to MSI Afterburner trades Windows XP support for latency monitoring and PresentMon integration, with some apparently significant changes to the underlying code base.

Waveshare has released a new RP2040-based development board complete with SWD, UART and I2C access on the side.

The ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 represents a giant leap in design and performance over its predecessor.

The Cherry KC 200 MX is the first keyboard to ship with Cherry's new MX2A switches installed. That's it. That's the story.

AMD continues to expand capabilities of AI development on desktops with ROCm 6.0 platform.

Microsoft has released a free expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which lets gamers fly over the planet of Arrakis from Dune.

ASML's backlog in China totals tens of billions of dollars, but geopolitical tensions could impact the company's ability to fulfill it.

It's Valentine's Day today, and although it's too late to order a gift for the day itself, it's never too late to buy a gift for a significant other.

While the hunt for the original ROM files continue, the Super Famicom Satellaview's BS F-Zero GP and GP 2 have successfully been recreated as a mod for SNES F-Zero via specialized tools and archival footage.

AMD's Frank Azor has confirmed that Anti-Lag+ will make a return soon, suggesting AMD has not forgotten about the latency-killing feature and is working to improve integration for a second launch.

The upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update will include a QR code scanning feature so users can scan QR codes using the built-in camera app to connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots. Let's hope they include some security features, as well.

Intel has disclosed 34 new security issues, which largely impact software like XTU and chipset drivers, but also firmware for Thunderbolt.

Zen-based CPUs are vulnerable to four newly disclosed bugs, according to AMD, and you'll need to update your BIOS to become secure.

Loongson tapes out the 16-core/32-thread LS 3C6000 CPU, preps 32-core and 64-core processors.

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED is a thin and light ultraportable with a colorful display and solid specs for the price, but it can throttle under load.

New Nvidia GPU driver adds DLSS support for upcoming game launches. Smalland: Survive the Wilds and Skull and Bones will launch with DLSS 2, while Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden gets DLSS 3.

A Linux patch details Lunar Lake's adaptive sharpening feature, which aims to make upscaled content look even better.

Nvidia's Huang doubts the world needs a major boost to semiconductor industry to make AI ubiquitous.

A user found that ants had attacked his PC, proliferating in the GPU around shredded thermal pads.

Chat with RTX is a new Nvidia application that brings locally running ChatGPT-like features to RTX PCs and laptops. You can also tune the responses with your own data.

The cheapest EasyThreed 3D printer on AliExpress, which retails for roughly $77 USD, can still be used to create usable items.