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.
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Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%
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DealsScore the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and an Asus X870E gaming motherboard for under $990 in this epic Newegg bundle
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DealsNewegg's Godlike bundle pairs 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a Ryzen 7 9800X3, and MSI's flagship X870E motherboard for $1,624.98
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30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future
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Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W power supply review: A competent entry-level choice
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DealsBeef up your gaming rig with this 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT for just $419 — save $50 on this 1440p champion
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Silverstone IceMyst Pro 360 Pro Review: Designed for RAM overclocking
By Albert Thomas Published
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CPUs
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Fueled by Musk's TeraFab tie-in, Intel's market cap hits highest level in 25 years — tops $300 billion on CPU, AI, and foundry momentum
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Geekbench 6.7 adds Intel BOT detection to spoof out 'unrealistic' CPU scores
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Intel and Google announce multi-year chip deal
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Intel developing two-lever retention mechanism for LGA 1954 socket, according to new leak
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AMD reveals $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
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Intel's OEM-only Core 9 273QPE 'Bartlett Lake' CPU beats Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench
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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK
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Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake CPUs listed in first retail product, confirms specs for three SKUs
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Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card
By Mark Tyson Published
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Cooling
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Silverstone IceMyst Pro 360 Pro Review: Designed for RAM overclocking
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Best CPU Cooler deals 2026
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PremiumAnalyzing Noctua's roadmap — new PSUs, fan-equipped mice, the elusive Thermosiphon, and disappearing prototypes
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Tryx Stage 360 AIO Review: Luxurious, unique, and quiet
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DealsThermalright's impressive AIO cooler lets you add a panoramic screen to your PC for just $165
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15 tiny 3D-printed fans fit inside a domed Noctua NF-A12x25 frame to form the "Fanhattan Project"
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Best AIO Coolers 2026
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Thermal Grizzly scammed out of $46,000 by Alibaba metals suppliers
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Best PC case fans tested 2026: Improve your airflow, silence your system, or add more RGB glow
By Niels Broekhuijsen Published
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GPUs
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DealsBeef up your gaming rig with this 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT for just $419 — save $50 on this 1440p champion
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Newbie overclocker destroys $5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU they used 'to learn how to solder'
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Intel Arc GPUs can finally boot up and play 'Crimson Desert' — but you'll probably want to wait for official support
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Intel introduces its own Neural Compression technology with a fallback mode that works on GPUs without dedicated AI cores
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GPU price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every graphics card from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel today
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Nvidia Pascal GPUs debuted 10 years ago today, best known for the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 Ti
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Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Mac
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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss
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New 'GeForge' and 'GDDRHammer' attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia's GPU memory
By Hassam Nasir Published
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Motherboards
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Nvidia's long-rumored N1 SoC spotted on a laptop motherboard with 128 GB RAM, listed for $1,400
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PremiumPCI Express roadmap: The path to 1TB/s with PCI 8.0, the challenges of integration, and beyond
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Best motherboard deals 2026
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Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme AI Top Motherboard Review: Solid flagship, but the X3D version is what you want today
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DealsKickstart your next Intel build with these two outstanding $139 motherboard bundles
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Stealth Motherboard Review: The gothy Goldilocks of rear-connect AM5 motherboards
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Max Wifi Review: Small tweaks, same Carbon DNA
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ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots
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MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max Wifi II Motherboard review: Sharpening the Tomahawk’s blade
By Joe Shields Published
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Overclocking
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Ambitious modder bolts a 360mm server AIO onto an RTX 3080, slashes VRAM temps in half
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PremiumSplave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world record
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Overclocker uses camping freezer to push RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5 GHz
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GPU overclocker uses chilled car antifreeze and pond pump to push Intel card to sub-zero temps, sets world record
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Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category
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GPU frequency overclocking world record broken using integrated Intel graphics
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Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler
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PC enthusiast delidded a 9950X3D using fishing line and a clothes iron
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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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PC Cases
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Corsair's new customizer tool lets buyers trick out the Frame 4000D case
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Best PC Case Deals 2026
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Corsair's new 3200D mid-tower case redefines airflow and component compatibility
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Endgame: What’s it Like to build the Noctua-everything PC inside the Antec Flux Pro Noctua-Edition
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Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans
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This shark PC case will take a $5,499 megabyte out of your pocket
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Akasa launches its latest-generation fanless Mini-ITX case
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Computer History Museum unveils comically large-scale rendition of the 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus
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Hands-on with Cooler Master’s Cosmos Alpha full-tower chassis – sliding, configurable interior makes for lots of possibilities
By Joe Shields Published
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Power Supplies
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Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W power supply review: A competent entry-level choice
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be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
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MSI MAG A1200PLS PCIE5 1200W power supply review: A competent 1200W unit, but pricey
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Enermax Revolution III S 1000W power supply review: Platinum efficiency, limited thermal capability
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DIYer upcycles an old PC PSU into a flexible bench power supply
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Lian Li SP1000P SFX power supply review: Exceptional power density in compact form
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Best Power Supplies 2026
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be quiet! Power Zone 2 1200W power supply review: Delivers outstanding performance at premium pricing
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Enthusiast fries 14TB HDD due to SATA power slipup
By Mark Tyson Published
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RAM
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RAM Price Index 2026: Daily lowest price on DDR5 and DDR4 memory of all capacities
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DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight
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Best RAM deals 2026 — last-minute RAM savings to beat the price crunch
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DealsThis 32GB Corsair Pro Overclocking kit is the cheapest DDR5 RAM you'll find on sale right now
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DealsCorsair's discounted 32GB Vengeance is the cheapest DDR5 on the market by a big margin
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Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer
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Micron predicts that cars will need 300GB of RAM
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Corsair’s limited-time memory sale brings 25% savings
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SK Group chairman says memory chip shortage will last until 2030
By Luke James Published
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Sound Cards
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Comparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money
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Creative updates its Sound Blaster PCIe line after 5 years
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DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later
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Creative Labs revives Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub
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Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later
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Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed
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How to Add Effects to Audio in Audacity
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How To Remove Background Noise, Distortion in Audacity
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EVGA Nu Audio Pro Review: Who Needs a Sound Card in 2020?
By Niels Broekhuijsen Published
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Storage
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Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%
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30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future
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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla
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2TB SanDisk memory card card surfaces for eye-watering $2,000
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SSD price tracking 2026: Lowest price on every M.2 SSD from Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, and more — here are the best deals during the AI-driven pricing crisis
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PremiumWD Innovation Day 2026 press Q&A transcript: roadmap plans to reach 60TB with ePMR and 100TB via HAMR by 2029 — 'at some point, the laws of physics will require us to transition to HAMR'
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Sharge Disk Pro 2TB review: Great sustained writes, active cooling, and a built-in hub
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GameStop NVMe SSD 2TB SSD Review: A surprisingly capable budget drive for the PS5
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Best SSD deals 2026 — savings on Samsung, WD, Crucial, and other SSDs at Amazon, Newegg, and others
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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