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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs may be backwards compatible with Arrow Lake coolers
Shipping records suggest Intel's next-gen LGA1954 socket shares dimensions with existing LGA1851 sockets, hinting at mechanical cooler compatibility.
Thermalright Royal Pretor 130 Review: The Crown Jewel of Air Cooling
Is the Royal Pretor 130 Thermalright’s best yet? We go hands-on with its latest premium dual-tower air cooler, testing it with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel’s Core i7-14700K CPUs!
xMEMS' fan-on-a-chip cooling can reduce SSD temperatures by up to 20%
xMEMS is expanding its fan-on-a-chip platform to include active cooling solutions directly installed in SSDs.
Nvidia RTX 5070 vs AMD RX 9070 Face Off
We pit the Nvidia RTX 5070 and AMD RX 9070, two of the more affordable current-generation graphics cards you can buy, to see which is the best option.
Western Digital still plans to start shipping 36TB HAMR hard drives in 2027
At Computex 2025, Western Digital confirmed plans to begin mass production of HAMR-based hard drives in 2027, starting with 36TB, 40TB, and 44TB models.
Silicon Motion’s SM2508-based SSDs were all around Computex
Silicon Motion is breaking Phison’s monopoly in the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD market as over a dozen companies, including Micron, Crucial, Kingston, and Lexar, adopt its SM2508 controller.
Nvidia posts record $44 billion revenue, H20 export ban bites as gaming rises
Raking in more cash.
Gigabyte RX 9070 XT thermal gel replacement reportedly lowers VRAM temperatures by 7 degrees
A consumer sent his Gigabyte Aorus Radeon RX 9070 XT Elite 16G to a store to upgrade its thermal solution.
