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Updated 2025-07-03 01:30
2TB Inland QN446 (2230) SSD Review: For When 1TB Just Isn’t Enough
The Inland QN446 is another great 2TB upgrade SSD for your Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, or other M.2 2230 portable system. It has the drawbacks of QLC, which are more evident in PCIe 4.0 mode, but it's otherwise efficient and cool-running.
Gelid says its new thermal pad beats thermal paste in performance, durability, and ease of application
Gelid has launched its new HeatPhase Ultra thermal pad, which it says uses phase change material for better performance than some of the best pastes.
Gigabyte GS27QC Curved 170 Hz Gaming Monitor Review: Solid Performance for Budget Gamers
Gigabyte delivers solid gaming performance for just $200 with the GS27QC. It's a 27-inch QHD VA panel with a 1500R curve, 170 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR and wide-gamut color. It punches well above its price class with quick response and a smooth feel.
Raspberry Pi 5 powered aluminum industrial panel PC goes on sale
The first industrial product based on the Raspberry Pi 5 is ready for sale. This industrial panel PC is all Pi-powered and ready to put in a shift.
New Chinese chip uses IBM's open source Power ISA instead of x86 or Arm — country searches for alternatives to sanctioned US processor designs as firm debuts second-gen server CPU
Hexin Technology powers on the second-gen HX-C2000 test chip, the TC2, for servers based on the RISC architecture.
Steam finally adds official support for DualShock and DualSense controllers, lists specific controller support for games
Valve's popular game store and launcher is finally ready to place nice and easy with Sony's controllers.
The gamer's guide to early Black Friday deals
The best deals on gaming consoles, peripherals, and games that you can buy right now.
Save on Prebuilt Gaming PCs at iBuyPower with This Exclusive Coupon
If you've got your heart set on a prebuilt gaming PC at iBuyPower, take advantage of this exclusive coupon and save a little.
RTX 4070 Ti drops to lowest-ever $719 price, making the RTX 4080 even more irrelevant
Black Friday week sees this powerful RTX 4070 Ti graphics card drop to its lowest-ever price - making it a worthy buy if you want to construct a new gaming rig.
Intel Core i5-13600KF drops to lowest-ever $250 price – there's no reason to pay $55 more for 14th Gen
The Intel Core i5-13600KF, one of our favorite CPUs, hits the lowest price we've ever seen, just ahead of Black Friday.
This 27-inch, 180 Hz, Mini LED gaming monitor deal is tough to ignore at just $249
AOC's new 1440P 180Hz Mini LED gaming display is already almost dropping in price right after launch. It may be one of the best gaming monitor deals of the month.
Lawsuit accuses Nvidia of stealing trade secrets — perpetrator busted with a screenshot of stolen code
Nvidia allegedly stole trade secrets after hiring a former Valeo employee, who took Valeo code with him to Nvidia.
Global SSD shipments fell by more than 10% last year, according to TrendForce market research data
Market researchers at TrendForce highlight a fall in global SSD shipments of over 10% in 2022, with muted expectations for 2023, as world economies continue to struggle.
Lunar Lake MX will be Intel's first high-performance CPU to use outsourced process node for x86 cores — reportedly uses TSMC's N3B tech
Leaked slides indicate that the compute tile of Lunar Lake MX processors will be made using TSMC's N3B fabrication technology, marking the first time Intel has used outsourced tech for its highest-end chips.
Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 12000 SSD Review: Fast, Fanless, and Formidable
The Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 12000 is another super-fast PCIe 5.0 SSD capable of pushing over 12 GB/s. It also comes with a very effective heatsink. However, it's not as good at 1TB, and availability remains an issue.
Unreleased Intel Core i3-14100 Raptor Lake Refresh CPU listed at Chinese etailer for $120
An Intel Core i3 14100 QS CPU has appeared on an online marketplace in China and the seller claims it has official retail specs.
LaserPecker LP4 Review: Etch Metal and Wood for a Price
A portable machine that can engrave metal and cut wood with the power of twin Galvo lasers.
Microsoft hires OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead advanced AI research team
Ousted OpenAI chief executive lands at Microsoft less than two days after being fired from the company he co-founded.
Maker can't wait for Raspberry Pi 500, so makes their own!
YouTuber Explaining Computers has made a Raspberry Pi 500 using the Raspberry Pi 5, a cheap keyboard and a custom made case.
Audiophile mechanical keyboard debuts — the Fiio KB3 HiFi has onboard DACs and op-amps integrated into its new keyboard
Fiio and Jade Audio collaborated on the KB3 HiFi, which is a wired keyboard with built-in headphone DACs and op-amps.
Adata XPG Lancer RGB Mera Edition DDR5-7200 C34 2x16GB Review: Very Kawaii, Very Limited
The Mera Edition of Lancer RGB looks unique, but is the memory as fast as Adata advertises it?
DOS_deck lets you play classic DOS games in your browser on PC or Steam Deck with full controller support; here's how it works
DOS_deck uses a SteamOS-esque browser interface and implements full controller support for modern players of DOS shareware and freeware classics, like DOOM and Syndicate.
TeamGroup debuts eco-friendly DDR5 RAM modules with heatsinks made from recycled aluminum, planet-friendly packaging
Following its Net-Zero Flash Drive, TeamGroup debuts Eco DDR5 RAM with a heatsink made from recycled aluminum.
SK Hynix and Nvidia reportedly working on a radical GPU redesign that 3D-stacks HBM memory directly on top of the processing cores
SK Hynix hires logic production specialists to integrate HBM4 memory directly on logic.
The US government banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU from China — chipmaker pulls RTX 4090 listings due to AI concerns, but leaves RTX 6000 Ada
Nvidia no longer sells the GeForce RTX 4090 in China, but the data center and workstation-oriented RTX 6000 Ada still seems to be available online.
Intel's unreleased Meteor Lake Core Ultra 155H appears in an updated Dell XPS 13 — Geekbench results show middling performance
A leaked Geekbench 5 result shows unimpressive performance for the Core Ultra 155H, though take the data with a grain of salt.
Nextorage NN5Pro 2TB SSD Review: When 10 GB/s Just Isn’t Enough
The NN5Pro is the second Gen 5 SSD from Nextorage, raising performance even higher while including an option for a massive cooling solution. Its performance is high, but availability is still low.
HandBrake AV1 video transcoding gets hardware speed boost on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs
HandBrake 1.7.0 supports hardware-accelerated AV1 transcoding on all popular GPUs, including those from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.
Samsung boss with a history of legal troubles now facing five-year prison sentence due to alleged merger misdealings
Samsung Electronics chairman faces five years in prison.
Intel Arc GPU performance momentum continues — 2.7X boost in AI-driven Stable Diffusion, largely thanks to Microsoft's Olive
Microsoft Olive was key to boosting performance in Stable Diffusion for Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards.
Steam Deck gets a new competitor — Ayaneo Slide RGB keyboard handheld gaming PC launches on IndieGogo from $699
Ayaneo has put its Slide handheld gaming PC up for pre-order on IndieGoGo for $699. It says that the hardware will begin shipping in mid-December.
I review laptops for a living — here's how to avoid a bad deal this Black Friday
Laptops will likely be on sale on Black Friday, but you need to know which specs to look out for to ensure you're getting a real deal.
Talks to reinstate OpenAI’s ousted CEO Sam Altman are to continue today, according to reports
After his surprising and unceremonious ousting on Friday, there have been talks, and pressure from big investors like Microsoft, to reinstate Sam Altman.
Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro 3D Printer Review: Super Speed and Quality, Low Price
Not just a cosmetic upgrade, the massive part cooling fan on the Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro enables high-speed printing with a high-flow direct drive extruder, linear rods and more at a
This Speedy, 4TB NVMe SSD is Just 3.6 Cents Per GB
The Team Group MP34 4TB SSD is currently available at Newegg for its lowest price to date-just $151 down from its going rate of around $199.
Dell S3222DGM, Our Favorite Gaming Monitor, Sinks to All-Time Low of $239
This 32-inch, 165 Hz gaming behemoth has excellent contrast and color.
New 3D printing method creates a working robot hand with a single run — One step closer to printing missing limbs at home
A new 3D printing method from Inkbit dubbed vision-controlled jetting allows high-resolution 3D printing that can simultaneously use firm and flexible materials. It is demonstrated with a functional robot hand.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs rumored to come with TSMC 3nm and DisplayPort 2.1 — AMD already offers the standard on the current Radeon RX 7000 series
Hardware leaker claims that Nvidia will switch to TSMC's 3nm process node and DisplayPort 2.1 outputs for next-generation GeForce RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs.
PSA: Why Black Friday Might Be Your Last Chance for Years to Get a Great SSD Deal
Signs point to increasing SSD prices soon. So if you find a good deal during Black Friday, you'd better grab it.
Lenovo Legion Go Review: Bulky, Switch-Like Gaming PC
The Lenovo Legion Go is a bulky handheld gaming PC with a bright display and detachable controllers.
AMD's last-gen Navi 22 GPU is still competitive against Nvidia's latest Ada Lovelace GPU — RX 6750 GRE beats RTX 4060 in a new review
The RX 6750 GRE, sold only in China, seems to be a better answer to the RTX 4060 than the newer RX 7600.
The Five Best AMD GPUs of All Time
We've peered back through rose-tinted glasses and determined that these are the five greatest and most important AMD graphics cards made under the two-decades-old Radeon brand.
I’m the Nerdy Father of Two Nerdier Kids. These Are the Gifts I’d Buy This Black Friday.
From programmable robots to STEM kits, these are fun projects to explore.
CPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2023: CPU Rankings
All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.
Russia pivots to Chinese CPUs that aren't subject to US sanctions — Russia's homegrown Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch chips
Russian Alt Linux ported to Loongson's LoongArch64 architecture to properly support LS5000 and LS6000 processors.
OpenAI suddenly ousts CEO Sam Altman: "The board no longer has confidence"
OpenAI's board has parted ways with CEO Sam Altman, suggesting that he was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board.'
Take control of your Intel CPU's P-Cores and E-Cores with CoreDirector software
The makers of Process Lasso have debuted a new application for Intel processors called CoreDirector that allows users to manually control how applications utilize an Intel chip's E cores and P cores.
You know what's NOT a Black Friday deal? RTX 4090 cards at $2,000 or more as prices soar on this 'banned in China' GPU
The lowest price on an RTX 4090 card at retail now sits at $1,899, with many priced at $2,000 or more. That's another $100 compared to just last week, and 15% more than early October. Here's the summary of what's happening.
Intel Core i7-13700K falls to an all-time low of $345 at Amazon
The Intel Core i7-13700K processor has dropped to a new, all-time low price at Amazon reaching $345 for the first time since it launched last year.
NASA super-pressure ballon flies high with Raspberry Pi-backed data payload protection
A team of scientists recently protected data from their super pressure balloon project using a handful of Raspberry Pis to make backups that drop to the Earth.
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