Electronics hobbyist converts $120 DDR5 SODIMM kit into ‘$1000’ desktop kit to fight RAM crisis
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Buy a complete RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC from Newegg and save $450
The CPU drops into a Gigabyte Z790 US AC motherboard that offers plenty of connectivity, including 10 USB ports on the rear IO (one 20 Gbps Type-C), two M.2 sockets (both PCIe 4.0 x4), and six SATA ports for storage, 2.5…
AMD’s FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 cards, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs
We’re pleased to see that Radeon gamers are getting upgrades for their existing graphics chips along the lines of what Nvidia has been delivering throughout 2025, because the way things are going, it looks like it’ll be …
Save $60 on this TP-Link wireless router with ultra-fast Wi-Fi 7 support, now $189.98
With the BE9700, you’re getting a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router with six external antennas, enough to give you coverage for up to 2,600 sq. ft. with up to 120 different devices connecting to it. TP-Link reckons you can expect …
One easy change makes Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark a better gaming system
As someone who primarily games on our Ryzen 7 9800X3D GPU testing system and not a laptop, I wanted to make sure I wasn’t setting unreasonable expectations for the Surface Laptop for input latency or CPU performance. So …
Intel installs production tools at Fab 62 in Arizona, provides updates on Ohio chip fab
TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks
Modal taps Nvidia Vera CPUs after firm’s internal tests show 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips
Benchmarking AMD’s BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
Iran threatens to attack undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz, calls them ‘legitimate new targets’ in future conflict
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FADU puts the filesystem inside the SSD’s flash to bypass host CPUs
This should be the workload most favorable for the technology, as the Filebench file server is metadata-heavy with relatively high host overhead: FADU says it uses 10,000 files in a multi-level tree, mean directory width…
Micron’s Taiwan union will launch a one-day strike this week, threatening memory production
The situation could become more serious if employees at Micron’s Taichung operations, its largest manufacturing site in Taiwan, decide to join the action. A separate labor organization that represents workers at that fac…