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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.

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Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240 Review: Infinite Contrast and Stellar Game Performance Corsair’s 27-inch QHD OLED display with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, wide gamut color, and 1000-nit HDR.

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.

Intel Announce 'Tunnel Falls' Quantum Research Chip 12-qubit silicon chip for the quantum research community

Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop BIOS Password With a Screwdriver Once into the BIOS via this screwdriver hack, it is a cinch to reset or disable the password requirement.

User Reports 12VHPWR Connector Melting From the PSU Side This time it's not the end on the GPU that has the issue.

Reviews

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 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

Ricoh 150 Portable Monitor Review: Colorful OLED, High Price

By Brandon Hill published 14 June 23

The Ricoh 150 is aimed at creative professionals, but we question if touch support is worth the hefty premium.

Monitors

Creative Pebble Pro Review: Small and Mighty

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 13 June 23

Editor's Choice

The Pebble Pro is a compact but surprisingly powerful desktop PC speaker system that sounds great and doesn’t distort (too much) at higher volumes.

Speakers

Best Picks

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

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.

CPUs

Chinese Company Allegedly Stole from Applied Materials

By Anton Shilov published 17 June 23

Applied Materials files a lawsuit against Chinese-based Mattson.

CPUs

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Graphics Cards

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.

Graphics

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