PC Components
Tom's Hardware has a 30-year history of being an industry leader in benchmarking PC components across a wide range of categories, including CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, RAM, coolers, motherboards, power supplies, and many, many more categories of PC parts. Here's the list of the latest reviews and news we've published, along with a selection of links to several of our most popular categories.
Latest about PC Components
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Best Black Friday CPU Cooler deals 2025
By Joe Shields Last updated
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Best Black Friday Motherboard Deals 2025 — deals on Intel and AMD motherboards
By Joe Shields Last updated
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Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card Black Friday deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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Best Black Friday PC Case Deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2025
By Jarred Walton Last updated
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Best Black Friday gaming GPU deals 2025 — ongoing deals on cheap Nvidia, AMD, and Intel gaming graphics cards
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025
By Jarred Walton Last updated
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CPUs
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Best Black Friday CPU deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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DealsIntel's Core i9-14900KF drops to sub-$400 all-time low — Raptor Lake Refresh flagship plummets in price
By Jake Roach Published
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CPU upgrades aren't dead from the DDR5 apocalypse — here are in-place DDR4 upgrades you can still make
By Jake Roach Published
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Homegrown Chinese CPUs bring Core i7 Raptor Lake performance to domestic gaming PCs
By Zhiye Liu Published
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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs allegedly feature up to 144 MB of bLLC only on unlocked SKUs
By Hassam Nasir Published
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Best Budget CPUs of 2025, Benchmarked and Ranked
By Paul Alcorn Last updated
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The Best CPU for Gaming in 2025
By Paul Alcorn Last updated
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Supersized chip family gathers for the 54th anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU
By Mark Tyson Published
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Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPUs tested ahead of launch
By Hassam Nasir Published
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Cooling
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Best Black Friday CPU Cooler deals 2025
By Joe Shields Last updated
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You can now buy Thermaltake's head-turning Minecube 360 Ultra liquid AIO
By Kunal Khullar Published
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Noctua confirms that Intel's Nova Lake won't need new CPU coolers
By Zak Killian Published
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Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2025: 90 TIM Compounds Tested and Ranked
By Paul Alcorn Last updated
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Best CPU Coolers 2025: AIO and Air Coolers
By Matt Safford Last updated
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Noctua’s flagship NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler is now available in an all-black Chromax variant
By Kunal Khullar Published
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Cooling system for a single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 rack costs a staggering $50,000
By Anton Shilov Published
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Membrane evaporative cooling tech achieves record-breaking results, could be solution for next-generation AI server cooling
By Aaron Klotz Published
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Premium20 years of Noctua: How one brand became a leader in the PC cooling business
By Niels Broekhuijsen Published
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GPUs
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Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2025
By Jarred Walton Last updated
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Best Black Friday gaming GPU deals 2025 — ongoing deals on cheap Nvidia, AMD, and Intel gaming graphics cards
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025
By Jarred Walton Last updated
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These are the lowest prices on every Black Friday graphics card
By Stewart Bendle Published
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DealsWe put together an $1,800 4K gaming PC built completely with parts on sale for Black Friday
By Stephen Warwick Published
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Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch
By Hassam Nasir Published
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In the era of stratospheric RAM prices, putting a new GPU in an old PC might be your best upgrade bet, but be sure to grab the right monitor, too
By Jeffrey Kampman Published
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DealsSave $50 as the cheapest RTX 5080 GPU hits $949 at Walmart during Black Friday
By Stewart Bendle Published
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Nvidia RTX Pro 6000D squeaks ahead of RTX 5090D in Geekbench OpenCL—China-tailored AI card still performs well despite regulatory woes
By Aaron Klotz Published
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Motherboards
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Best Black Friday Motherboard Deals 2025 — deals on Intel and AMD motherboards
By Joe Shields Last updated
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DealsNewegg is literally giving away free DDR5 RAM with B850 motherboards for Black Friday
By Ben Stockton Published
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Best Motherboards 2025 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset
By Joe Shields Last updated
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MSI MPG X870I Edge Ti Evo Wifi Review: Three M.2’s and smokin’ fast memory support
By Joe Shields Published
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Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master X3D Ice Motherboard Review: Icy refresh designed for X3D chips
By Joe Shields Published
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Modern motherboard features explained: Connectors, headers, ports, and chipsets decoded
By Joe Shields Published
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Intel LGA 1151 motherboard spotted with a whopping 36 USB ports
By Hassam Nasir Published
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ASRock X870 LiveMixer Wifi motherboard review: Connectivity for the creator
By Joe Shields Published
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The same ASRock B850 motherboard kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs worth $1,000 one by one in South Korea
By Hassam Nasir Published
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Overclocking
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Overclocker uses camping freezer to push RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5 GHz
By Zak Killian Published
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GPU overclocker uses chilled car antifreeze and pond pump to push Intel card to sub-zero temps, sets world record
By Jowi Morales Published
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Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category
By Mark Tyson Published
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GPU frequency overclocking world record broken using integrated Intel graphics
By Hassam Nasir Published
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Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler
By Mark Tyson Published
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PC enthusiast delidded a 9950X3D using fishing line and a clothes iron
By Mark Tyson Published
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Overclocking Arrow Lake: How I set world records, plus simple tips to push your Core Ultra to the limit
By Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch Published
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Diabatix and Asus hit new overclocking records with LN2-optimized heatsink – Intel Core Ultra 9 285K hits 7.448 GHz
By Christopher Harper Published
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Raptor Lake 9.1 GHz overclockers share secrets behind eclipsing a 17-year-old CPU frequency world record
By Christopher Harper Published
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PC Cases
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Best Black Friday PC Case Deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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DealsSteal 68% off of Corsair's Micro ATX 2500X PC case at Newegg
By Sayem Ahmed Published
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SilverStone takes the wraps off the FLP03, its latest homage to beige 1980s PC design
By Mark Tyson Published
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DealsCorsair's premium SFF case sees a massive 70% price drop to $59 — iCUE Link 2500X hits a new historic low
By Kunal Khullar Published
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Hands-on with Lian Li's Lancool 217 INF: RGB and infinity mirror are a drastically different take on the wood-clad original 217
By Matt Safford Published
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Montech King 45 Pro case review: Stylish and affordable, with an emphasis on GPU temperatures
By Albert Thomas Published
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Cooler Master's new PC case with 5.25-inch drive bay launches in Japan as optical drive boom hits in wake of Windows 10 upgrade cycle
By Hassam Nasir Last updated
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Power up your PC like a fighter jet — enthusiast demos 'an unnecessary complicated way of starting your PC'
By Zhiye Liu Published
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Best PC Cases 2025: Our Tested Picks for Your Next Build
By Matt Safford Last updated
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Power Supplies
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DealsRevitalize your gaming PC with a 1000W power supply at a special 35% discount — Corsair RM1000x drops to an all-time low of $119
By Zhiye Liu Published
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Best Power Supplies 2025
By E. Fylladitakis Last updated
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Seasonic G12 GC-750 750W power supply review
By E. Fylladitakis Published
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Corsair HX1000i SHIFT 1000W power supply review
By E. Fylladitakis Published
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Gigabyte P650G 650W power supply review
By E. Fylladitakis Published
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MSI MAG A850GLS PCIE5 power supply review
By E. Fylladitakis Published
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be quiet! System Power 11 550W power supply review
By E. Fylladitakis Published
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How We Test Power Supply Units
By Aris Mpitziopoulos Last updated
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Corsair launches gargantuan 3,000W power supply for $599.99
By Zhiye Liu Published
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RAM
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Best Black Friday RAM deals 2025 — deals on DDR5 and DDR4
By Zhiye Liu Last updated
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Five smart ways to ride out the RAM price apocalypse
By Matt Safford Published
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CyberPowerPC announces RAM price hikes coming to the U.S. and the UK, starting December 7th
By Jowi Morales Published
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Intel Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs arrive with native DDR5-7200 CUDIMM support
By Zhiye Liu Published
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China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions
By Anton Shilov Published
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Framework stops selling standalone laptop RAM to ward off scalpers — warns price increase is coming
By Hassam Nasir Last updated
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says RAM pricing crisis isn't going away anytime soon
By Mark Tyson Published
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Memory MSRPs and fixed price tags disappear at Micro Center as some stores shift to spot pricing
By Zhiye Liu Published
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Lenovo stockpiles RAM as prices skyrocket, reportedly has enough inventory to last through 2026
By Aaron Klotz Published
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Sound Cards
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DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later
By Mark Tyson Published
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Creative Labs revives Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub
By Kunal Khullar Published
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Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later
By Mark Tyson Published
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Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed
By Mark Tyson Published
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How to Add Effects to Audio in Audacity
By Jo Hinchliffe Published
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How To Remove Background Noise, Distortion in Audacity
By Jo Hinchliffe Published
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EVGA Nu Audio Pro Review: Who Needs a Sound Card in 2020?
By Niels Broekhuijsen Published
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EVGA Adds Nu Audio Pro 7.1 Sound Cards With Improved Looks
By Niels Broekhuijsen Published
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EVGA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin Card Includes a Power Meter
By Aris Mpitziopoulos Published
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Storage
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Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card Black Friday deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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Best Black Friday Hard Drive deals 2025 — HDD deals from WD, Seagate, and Toshiba
By Paul Alcorn Last updated
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DealsGet 48TB of beastly HDD storage for less than $800 in this blockbuster deal, just $16 per TB
By Ben Stockton Last updated
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Best Black Friday SSD deals 2025 — cash-saving deals on Samsung, WD, Crucial, and other SSDs at Amazon, Newegg, and others
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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DealsColossal 28TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drops to $449 in Amazon Black Friday deal
By Sayem Ahmed Published
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Grab a 4TB SSD deal for 6 cents per GB while they last – 8TB models as low as 8 cents per GB
By The Editors of Tom's Hardware Last updated
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Best MicroSD Express Cards For The Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025
By Zhiye Liu Last updated
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DealsSanDisk and Samsung Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express cards hit all-time low prices on Amazon for Black Friday
By Stewart Bendle Published
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Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its lab
By Aaron Klotz Published
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