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RTX 4090 Falls 70 MHz Short of Breaking 4 GHz Barrier

By Ash Hill published 17 June 23

CENS has broken a world record for the GeForce RTX 4090 by reaching an impressive maximum speed of 3,930 MHz.

Manufacturers Roll Out New Firmware For Next-Gen Intel CPUs

By Zhiye Liu published 17 June 23

Motherboard vendors are readying their 700-series motherboards for Raptor Lake Refresh processors.

Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs Reportedly Launch In October

By Zhiye Liu published 17 June 23

Hardware leaker shares the alleged launch dates for Intel Raptor Lake Refresh, Sapphire Rapids Refresh, Meteor Lake, and Arrow Lake processors.

ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys

By Ash Hill published 17 June 23

Sid, also known as @immasiddtweets on Twitter, uses ChatGPT to generate working keys for Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro installations.

Samsung 980 1TB SSD Drops to $44 at Amazon

By Ash Hill published 17 June 23

Samsung’s 980 1TB SSD is available today at Amazon for $44, down from its usual rate of around $59.

Raspberry Pi Pico W Gives Your Plant Emotions with Face Animations

By Ash Hill published 17 June 23

Penguin Pranav is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to give his plant emotions and facial expressions based on environmental factors.

Chinese Company Allegedly Stole from Applied Materials

By Anton Shilov published 17 June 23

Applied Materials files a lawsuit against Chinese-based Mattson.

AMD Shows Off Original Ryzen 9 5950X3D V-Cache Prototype

By Aaron Klotz published 16 June 23

AMD showed off prototype 12-core and 16-core 3D-VCache designs in an interview with Gamers Nexus, showing it could have produced high-core count Ryzen 5000X3D CPUs if it wanted to.

Nvidia Ada Lovelace and GeForce RTX 40-Series

China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year

By Francisco Pires published 16 June 23

China's ByteDance has already ordered around 100,000 Nvidia datacenter accelerators in 2023 — more than the entire Chinese market ordered last year.

ASRock Registers 16GB RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards

By Aaron Klotz published 16 June 23

ASRock has filed two new RX 7800 XT model names with the Eurasian Economic Commission, suggesting AMD might release its RX 7800 series GPUs in the near future.

AMD Rembrandt-R Zen 3+ CPUs Bring 4x4 Motherboards to Life

By Zhiye Liu published 16 June 23

ASRock Industrial has released the 4X4-7735U/D5 and 4X4-7535U/D5 motherboards with AMD's Ryzen 7035 (Rembrandt-R) processors.

Leak Seemingly Confirms Core Ultra Branding is Meteor Lake Only

By Ash Hill published 16 June 23

IT Home shares newly leaked branding details for the Meteor Lake architecture, seemingly confirming its new Core Ultra moniker.

A Real Bundle Deal! Get an i7-12700K, Mobo, 32GB of DDR5, and Game for Just $436

By Stewart Bendle published 16 June 23

Newegg is offering a PC combination of parts that include a CPU, Motherboard, RAM, and even a free game.

Zotac's New RTX 4090 Flagship Looks Like a Nike, Portal Collab

By Mark Tyson published 16 June 23

Zotac's new RTX 4090 PGF OC flagship looks like a sneaker, costs over $2,380, and is 381 mm long.

Team Aims To Use Raspberry Pi in Brown Bear Conservation Effort

By Ash Hill published 16 June 23

Ed Miller leads a team that plans to integrate Raspberry Pis into their black bear conservation efforts by tracking them with trail cameras and AI.

More News

RTX 4090 Falls 70 MHz Short of Breaking 4 GHz Barrier But good enough to set a new world record.

Manufacturers Roll Out New Firmware For Next-Gen Intel CPUs "Next-gen," as presumably the Raptor Lake Refresh

Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs Reportedly Launch In October Refresh season is right around the corner.

Chinese Company Allegedly Stole from Applied Materials Applied Materials sues Mattson for IP.

Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Intel, AMD Kernel Bug The bug only hangs the boot process once in about 1,000 boots.

Reviews

Phrozen Sonic Mini 8K S Review: An Upgrade in Affordability

By Denise Bertacchi published 18 June 23

Phrozen rethinks its first 8K printer, giving us the cheaper, Sonic Mini 8K S.

3D Printing

Fnirsi HS-01 Review: Smarter Soldering Iron

By Les Pounder published 17 June 23

For $30, Fnirsi’s HS-01 is another low cost smart soldering iron designed for the workbench and the field.

Electronics

Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240 Review: Infinite Contrast and Stellar Game Performance

By Christian Eberle published 16 June 23

Editor's Choice

Corsair’s 27-inch QHD OLED display with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, wide gamut color, and 1000-nit HDR.

Monitors

Corsair Darkstar Review: Why are all these buttons wrong?

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 15 June 23

The Corsair Darkstar is a wireless gaming mouse aimed at MMO/MOBA players with 15 programmable buttons, mouse-tilt gestures, and a 2,000 Hz polling rate.

Mice

PNY RTX 4070 Review: Single 8-Pin, No 16-Pin 12VHPWR

By Jarred Walton published 15 June 23

The PNY RTX 4070 delivers similar performance to Nvidia's reference design, but with higher temperatures and noise levels. The only real draw is its use of a single 8-pin power connector.

GPUs

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The Best CPU for Gaming in 2023

By Paul Alcorn published 17 June 23

Here is the best CPU for gaming for the money, based on our benchmarks. These processors offer the best performance in their price ranges and most are suitable for overclocking.

CPUs

Best Gaming Chairs 2023

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal last updated 14 June 23

The best gaming chairs we've tested, from budget seats to big and tall thrones.

Gaming Chairs

Best Computer Monitors 2023

By Christian Eberle published 14 June 23

We break down the best computer monitors for upgrading your setup in 2023.

Monitors

CPUs

The Best CPU for Gaming in 2023

By Paul Alcorn published 17 June 23

Here is the best CPU for gaming for the money, based on our benchmarks. These processors offer the best performance in their price ranges and most are suitable for overclocking.

CPUs

AMD Shows Off Original Ryzen 9 5950X3D V-Cache Prototype

By Aaron Klotz published 16 June 23

AMD showed off prototype 12-core and 16-core 3D-VCache designs in an interview with Gamers Nexus, showing it could have produced high-core count Ryzen 5000X3D CPUs if it wanted to.

CPUs

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Graphics Cards

ASRock Registers 16GB RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards

By Aaron Klotz published 16 June 23

ASRock has filed two new RX 7800 XT model names with the Eurasian Economic Commission, suggesting AMD might release its RX 7800 series GPUs in the near future.

GPUs

PNY RTX 4070 Review: Single 8-Pin, No 16-Pin 12VHPWR

By Jarred Walton published 15 June 23

The PNY RTX 4070 delivers similar performance to Nvidia's reference design, but with higher temperatures and noise levels. The only real draw is its use of a single 8-pin power connector.

GPUs

AMD Simulated RX 7800 XT Performs Similarly to RX 6800 XT

By Aaron Klotz published 14 June 23

Igor's Lab simulated an AMD RX 7800 XT using the new Radeon Pro W7800 to see where performance might land. Igor's results put the theoretical 7800 XT slightly ahead of a 6800 XT.

Graphics