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- February 25, 2025
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Best gaming laptop deals 2025
Whether you’re looking for yourself or others, you can find some great gaming laptops at a discount this season — which is good because PC gaming can get expensive fast.…
- February 25, 2025
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Chinese CPU maker Zhaoxin rolls out DeepSeek support to all processors — entire product lineup now runs DeepSeek LLMs natively
DeepSeek’s rollout into the Chinese consumer market continues, as Zhaoxin has announced its adoption of the DeepSeek-R1 LLM across its hardware lineup. Zhaoxin, one of the few Chinese companies licensed…
- February 25, 2025
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MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk MAX Wifi Motherboard Review: a little extra on a budget
The latest board on our budget AMD review tour is the MSI’s B850 Tomahawk MAX Wifi. Priced at $229.99, it’s designed for gamers and looks on paper to be a…
- February 25, 2025
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ASRock issues BIOS update to address Ryzen 9 9800X3D failures, warns of ‘misinformation’ about failures
ASRock has issued a BIOS update for its AM5 Motherboards, aiming to resolve “CPU boot issues” with systems using the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. ASRock’s 3.20 beta BIOS has…
- February 23, 2025
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2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is $99 at Newegg and comes with a free 32GB flash drive
Today, Newegg offers the TeamGroup MP44L M.2 2TB SSD at one of its best prices. Typically, it costs around $139, but right now, it’s discounted to just $99, putting the…
- February 23, 2025
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AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
AMD will announce the highly anticipated Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards on February 28, seven days from now, at 8 AM ET via its YouTube channel. Many users are looking…
- February 23, 2025
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RTX 5070 Ti manufacturing defect cuts performance by up to 10% — 88 ROPs vs 96 ROPs (design)
As Nvidia confirmed yesterday, a handful of RTX 50 GPUs have been affected by a manufacturing defect resulting in fewer ROPs than specified. The impacted GPUs, per Nvidia, include the…
- February 22, 2025
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Chinese chipmaker unveils Optane-like storage class memory
Officially, the development of mainstream storage class memory (SCM) like Intel Optane has been suspended at big companies like Intel and Micron, but it looks like China-based Numemory, also known…
- February 22, 2025
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PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 ‘helper’ to enable full performance
A few days ago, it came to light that Nvidia has dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications with its latest RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs. Support for PhysX has gradually faded…
- February 21, 2025
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ASRock’s new ‘Pro X3D’ motherboard named for the Ryzen CPUs it is designed for
ASRock has released the brand’s first X3D-branded AMD motherboard, seemingly optimized for AMD’s Ryzen X3D chips, which are among the best CPUs. The new board, the B650M Pro X3D, is…
