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Travlfi JourneyGo 5G mobile hotspot review – Affordably priced, but lacking in performance and features
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Elegoo Jupiter 2 Resin 3D Printer review: The giant returns for round two
Elegoo’s Jupiter 2 is a resin powerhouse with a large print area and 16K high-quality 3D printing at a reasonable price.
Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Wifi7 Plus Motherboard Review: Cost-conscious refresh board delivers (almost) all the fixens
Native Arrow Lake refresh support and fast networking highlight the budget-conscious Z890 Aorus Elite Wifi7 Plus.
CPUs
Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement
Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.
Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible
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Ludicrous overclock slams 1.7 volts into 6700K in an attempt to stop CPU from bottlenecking an RTX 3080 — 5.2 GHz on aging four-core pushes GPU utilization from 60% to 74%
YouTuber challenges himself to alleviate a CPU bottleneck with a Core i7-6700K paired with an RTX 3080 through overclocking.
Graphics Cards
AMD's RDNA 5 gaming GPUs are coming late next year, according to AIBs at Computex
Some even tipped early 2028 for the hardware release window.
Laptops
8GB of RAM is back on laptops — companies are lowering memory offerings to make affordable notebooks during component crisis
At Computex, Dell and Acer both introduced systems starting with 8GB of RAM to compete with the MacBook Neo, following a rush to 16GB systems in the last two years to bolster local AI.
Features
Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible
Premium The massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.
Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to Taipei
Premium In the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future
Premium Qualcomm has Snapdragon C to compete in the exciting low-cost laptop market, but it's also looking to build an entire agentic AI ecosystem on Qualcomm silicon.
PC Components
Levelplay shows off magnetically attached fans that are reversible, connect via pogo pins and USB-C
Levelplay took to Computex with some interesting cooling concepts, like magnetic fans that can be reversed in seconds, and an AIO that puts a big tactile knob for fan control on top of your CPU.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
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