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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Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high that a person flew to the US to buy them instead, saving money despite flight and hotel costs
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Be quiet! Silent Loop 3 420 review: Performance cooling with minimal noise
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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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Retail DDR5 memory prices slowly drop in Europe despite ongoing shortages
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AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly arriving late, delayed to CES 2027
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Intel Bartlett Lake-S CPUs reportedly wield 12 blazing P-cores and 5.8 GHz boost
By Anton Shilov Published
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CPUs
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AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly arriving late, delayed to CES 2027
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Intel Bartlett Lake-S CPUs reportedly wield 12 blazing P-cores and 5.8 GHz boost
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AMD's next-gen Ryzen 10000 desktop CPUs are rumored to range from 6 to 24 cores
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Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow
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"Like new" Ryzen 9 9900X3D Amazon order turns into a shocking CPU bait-and-switch scandal
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Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy
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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D faceoff
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30% of x86 CPUs sold are now made by AMD, as company's market share grows thanks to a flagging Intel
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Intel Nova Lake die sizes leak, signaling higher cost
By Anton Shilov Published
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Cooling
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Be quiet! Silent Loop 3 420 review: Performance cooling with minimal noise
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Thermalright Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB Black review: Detachable 6.7-inch screen makes for unique possibilities
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Budget RGB Fan Roundup: Are cheap PC fans always this bad?
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Thermalright's LCD software for Windows ported to Linux
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Noctua celebrates its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit
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Chinese researchers discover new salty cooling solution that can drop temperatures by more than 50 degrees Celsius in seconds
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PremiumThe Stout Owl: How I Built the Ultimate Noctua G2 PC
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Cooler Master makes a massive AIO liquid cooler for up to 2000-watt CPUs — a gigantic 360x360mm MO-RA-like cooler for mere mortals
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SAMA L70 Review: Competitive performance that punches above its price tag
By Albert Thomas Published
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GPUs
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PremiumThe great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out
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Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering
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$1,000 bought an RTX 5080 in November 2025, now it only buys an RTX 5070 Ti
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Corsair AI Workstation 300 review: Strix Halo sets sail in a compact and classy (but pricey) package
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$5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z gets killed in extreme overclocking attempt, thermal shock cracks the GPU core
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Enthusiast scores watercooled dual Nvidia GTX Titan X GPUs for $86
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MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z review: RTX 5090 Ti, anyone?
By Jeffrey Kampman Published -

MSI Afterburner adds 16-pin power connector warning on its MPG AI PSUs to prevent overheating GPUs
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RTX 5090 kicks off the Chinese New Year early with fireworks — $3,299 dream GPU upgrade becomes a fiery nightmare
By Zhiye Liu Published
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Motherboards
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Best motherboard deals 2026.
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Best Motherboards 2026 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset
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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero Motherboard Review
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Gigabyte X870E Aero X3D Wood Motherboard Review: Wood and leather make it better
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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial Motherboard Review: Carving out a new top-notch flagship for Asus
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AMD's open-source openSIL firmware is being ported to Zen 5 motherboard early — replacement for AGESA shows up ahead of Zen 6
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Intel's new platform for Nova Lake chips leaked, up to 48 PCIe lanes and all-new chipset
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MSI MEG X870E Ace Max Motherboard Review: A second Ace up MSI’s AM5 sleeve?
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MSI MAG Pro X870E-P Wifi Motherboard review: Designed for productivity, but not a standout
By Joe Shields Published
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Overclocking
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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 -

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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PC Cases
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Akasa launches its latest-generation fanless Mini-ITX case
By Jowi Morales Published -

Computer History Museum unveils comically large-scale rendition of the 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus
By Mark Tyson Published -

Hands-on with Cooler Master’s Cosmos Alpha full-tower chassis – sliding, configurable interior makes for lots of possibilities
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Corsair launches new FRAME 4000D "Vault" series featuring two color-shifting paintjobs & other upgrades
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Best PC Case Deals 2026
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This Xbox One S mod hides a full Windows gaming PC within the original shell
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Retro Apple Mac mod implements thermal printer floppy swap
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Fractal Design's new North and North XL Momentum Edition cases sport stealthy black wood slats, promise quieter fans
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Can't afford new RAM, storage, or a GPU? A new PC case can make your existing system feel fresh, and you can carry it over to a future build
By Joe Shields Published
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Power Supplies
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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
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Infineon allegedly hikes prices of power switches and ICs amid AI boom
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Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill
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Cooler Master Elite NEX W600 power supply review: Affordable, but with outdated design
By E. Fylladitakis Published -

Lian Li RS1200G ATX 3.1 power supply review: Stellar performance, state-of-the-art design
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be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 650W power supply review: Balanced performance and reliability
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MSI introduces GPU Safeguard tech on its latest PSUs to fend off RTX 5090 meltdowns — warns users with pop-up and buzzer when abnormal current is detected on the 12V-2x6 connector
By Jowi Morales Published
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RAM
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Retail DDR5 memory prices slowly drop in Europe despite ongoing shortages
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Turkish wedding party receives Nvidia RTX 5090, RAM necklaces, and Intel CPU for elaborate wedding gifts
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You can now file your G.Skill class action claim, to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement
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Corsair fights back against RAM scammers and thieves with packaging shift
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G.Skill settles with plaintiffs following $2.4 million class action lawsuit over advertised memory speeds, denies all wrongdoing
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John Carmack considers fiber as an L2 cache for streaming AI data
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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C34 2x64GB Review: The Sweet Spot For 128GB
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Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims
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PremiumChina’s CXMT and YMTC to memory output
By Luke James Published
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Sound Cards
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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 Adds Nu Audio Pro 7.1 Sound Cards With Improved Looks
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EVGA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin Card Includes a Power Meter
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EVGA Sounds Out its Nu Audio Card
By Zak Storey Published
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Storage
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Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high that a person flew to the US to buy them instead, saving money despite flight and hotel costs
By Jowi Morales Published -
PremiumMicrosoft's Project Silica write-once storage could store terabytes of data for over 10,000 years
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Best MicroSD Express Cards For The Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026
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Data storage Guinness World Record broken by QR code pixels measuring just 49nm
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Phison CEO says NAND shortages can kill consumer electronics companies in 2026
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SATA SSD cheated death from failed attempt at data destruction with a drill
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$50 junk second-hand motherboard turns into a SSD treasure trove worth $1,500
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Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
By Jowi Morales Last updated -

Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report
By Jowi Morales Published
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More about PC Components
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Intel Bartlett Lake-S CPUs reportedly wield 12 blazing P-cores and 5.8 GHz boost
By Anton Shilov Published -

Hands-on with Cooler Master’s Cosmos Alpha full-tower chassis – sliding, configurable interior makes for lots of possibilities
By Joe Shields Published -
PremiumThe great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out
By Jeffrey Kampman Published
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