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Intel Raptor Lake Non-K CPUs Show Up In New Benchmarks

By Mark Tyson published 24 September 22

The upcoming Core i3-13100, i5-13400, and i9-13900 have passed through this sysinfo tool. It collected some specs, but the only standard benchmark was the iGPU.

TeamGroup's Speedy DDR5-7200 C34 RAM Hits Retail For $350

By Zhiye Liu published 24 September 22

The TeamGroup T-Force Delta RGB 32GB DDR5-7200 memory kit is available on Newegg for $349.99.

Ryzen 9 7950X Soars To 6.5 GHz, Shattering Two CPU Records

By Mark Tyson published 24 September 22

AMD’s Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ processors continue to show their prowess in pre-release benchmark feats This time they grab 15%+ better scores than their nearest rivals with LN2 cooling.

Intel Readies to Ship Arc A700 GPUs to Scavenger Hunt Winners

By Anton Shilov published 24 September 22

Intel’s Arc graphics cards are nearly here; wait just a little bit.

AMD X670/B650 Motherboard Overview: 20-Plus Motherboards for AM5

By Joe Shields published 24 September 22

X670 chipsets arrive sporting the new LGA-based AM5 socket, DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support and more.

How To Dual Boot Linux and Windows 11

By Les Pounder published 24 September 22

Windows and Linux co-existing on the same machine.

AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 Specs, Release Date, Benchmarks, Price Listings

By Paul Alcorn published 24 September 22

Here's the Ryzen 7000 release date, benchmarks, specifications, pricing, and all we know about AMD's Zen 4 architecture.

GPU Prices Fall After Nvidia Announcement, Ethereum Merge

By Jarred Walton published 23 September 22

We look at graphics card price changes at retail and eBay over the past week, right after Ethereum's Merge and in the midst of the Nvidia RTX 40-series Ada Lovelace announcement.

Intel's Core i9-13900K Leads Single-Thread Performance Rankings

By Anton Shilov published 23 September 22

Raptor shows its teeth: Core i9-13900K tops PassMark's single-thread CPU performance rankings.

Nvidia Reveals Ada Lovelace GPU Secrets: Extreme Transistor Counts at High Clocks

By Anton Shilov published 23 September 22

Nvidia revealed the official transistor counts and die sizes of the new RTX 4090 and 4080 AD102, AD103, AD104 GPUs.

Windows 11 Users Complain of Nvidia GeForce Issues After 22H2 Feature Update

By Mark Tyson published 23 September 22

Nvidia is investigating the complaints of users across its forums, on Reddit, and on the Tom’s Hardware forums too. There are workaround but we hope a patch or hotfix is delivered ASAP.

What GPU to Buy if You Can't Afford Nvidia's Ada or Wait for AMD's RNDA3

By Jarred Walton published 23 September 22

The AMD RX 6600 and RTX 2060 remain the best deals in existing GPUs. But if you can wait until Black Friday, you may see the best graphics card deals in years.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

GeForce RTX 4090 Leaves Plenty of Room for a Future RTX 4090 Ti Flagship

By Aaron Klotz published 23 September 22

AD102 has more cores, L2 cache, and ROPs to offer

Why Nvidia's RTX 4080, 4090 Cost so Damn Much

By Jarred Walton published 23 September 22

And how AMD's RDNA3 chiplets could seriously undercut Nvidia

Tiny Keyboard Transforms Smartwatch Into a Desktop PC

By Ian Evenden published 23 September 22

Chinese manufacturer Lilygo is selling a kit to turn its own-brand smartwatch into a tiny desktop computer.

Nvidia Ada Lovelace architectural overview

Nvidia Ada Lovelace and GeForce RTX 40-Series: Everything We Know

By Jarred Walton published 23 September 22

Nvidia looks set to push performance and features to new heights (Updated)

Video Allegedly Shows Crypto Miners Jet Washing Nvidia RTX GPUs

By Mark Tyson published 23 September 22

As well as jet washing GPU filled servers, a video shows a selection of GPU PCBs in an ‘ozone water’ bath.

Raspberry Pi Pico Powers Hex Color Picker Input Board

By Ash Hill published 23 September 22

Guy Dupont has programmed a color picking LED board using a Raspberry Pi RP2040 and is selling prototype copies over at Etsy.

Asus Readies Intel Z790 Motherboards with DDR4 Support

By Anton Shilov published 22 September 22

Intel's new top-of-the-range platform will be available with the DDR4 option.

AV1 Update Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent

By Aaron Klotz published 22 September 22

A new AOM-AV1 update was just released by Google, improving AV1's encoding performance by up to 34% with 16 encoding threads or more.