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TP-Link Archer GE400 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router review: Excellent gaming features, mixed bag on performance

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Tom's Hardware · 12/07/2025 08:06 EDT

The Archer GE400 is TP-Link’s new entry-level, dual-band Wi-Fi 7 gaming router Read more ›

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Researchers create optotactile surfaces, for 3D displays that can be seen and felt

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Tom's Hardware · 12/07/2025 07:57 EDT

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated a display technology that renders dynamic graphics that can be both seen and physically felt, according to a new study. Read more ›

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A 10-year study indicates that treated surfaces turn yellow more severely than untreated plastic parts — retrobrighting does more harm than good to consoles

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 13:50 EDT

Retrobrighting a Sega Dreamcast console yielded poor results after 10 years. Read more ›

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CPU air cooler runs ice-cold water through its heatpipes to liquid-cool a GPU — negative-temp DIY mod sees up to 17% performance uplift

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 12:18 EDT

Watch as a crazed modder grinds down the heatpipes of an excellent air cooler, then injects ice-cold water through them with retrofitted tubes, and finally puts the entire apparatus on two GPUs to see how far he can push performance, witnessing massive clock-speed uplifts across the board. Read more ›

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Samsung 32-inch 165 Hz 1440p curved gaming monitor is at its lowest price of $199 — save up to $130 on the Odyssey G55C

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 11:40 EDT

The 32-inch 165Hz 1440p Samsung Odyssey G55C curved gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $199.99, giving buyers 39% off and saving you $130 off its $329.99 MSRP. Read more ›

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Nvidia refuses to replace RTX 5080 FE GPU's broken 16-pin power connector retention clip — the owner says Nvidia is trying to 'burn my house down'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 11:27 EDT

A Reddit user has reported that Nvidia declined to replace their brand-new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and that the company is trying to “burn my house down”. Read more ›

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TSMC could be inching closer to making 'all American' chips — report says it is accelerating an advanced packaging facility in Arizona

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 10:45 EDT

TSMC may be accelerating its advanced packaging facility in Arizona to package the first processors as early as 2028, ahead of its partner Amkor. Read more ›

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Zotac denies RTX 5070 Ti fan-related RMA and then offers to dispose of the GPU free of charge — the company claims 'irreversible' PCB damage and 'limited tools' for repair

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 10:07 EDT

Zotac denied an RMA repair for an RTX 5070 Ti after claiming PCB damage, despite what appears to be wear-and-tear. Read more ›

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Ryzen 7 9850X3D edges past Ryzen 7 9800X3D in PassMark benchmark — upcoming X3D chip shows up to 4.7% higher performance

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 10:05 EDT

A new PassMark entry has surfaced for AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9850X3D, giving the first look at how the chip compares against the current 9800X3D. Read more ›

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TSMC claims 4.2X efficiency gain over a decade from N7 to A14 fabrication process

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 09:44 EDT

TSMC clarifies A14 specifications: Even more performance, but better tools might be needed to extract the full potential of the latest process technologies. Read more ›

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Scythe Big Shuriken 4 Review: Compact SFF cooling for Mini-ITX

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 09:26 EDT

Can Scythe’s Big Shuriken 4 SFF cooler, designed for Mini-ITX, handle AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X? You might be surprised! Read more ›

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AMD's imminent Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip shows up on Geekbench with 5.6 GHz boost clocks — Scores slightly lower than 9800X3D in multi-core tests, higher in single-core

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 08:30 EDT

Two new Geekbench listings for the upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip have been uncovered, both from mid-November, that show the CPU posting higher single-core numbers than the existing 9800X3D while being beat in multi-threaded results. The chip boosted up to 5.6 GHz as expected, but was running on slow 4800 MT/s memory. Read more ›

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Benevolent Facebook trader exchanges 192GB of DDR5 worth $2,200 for one RTX 5070 Ti — says selling at such a high price would have been 'unethical' despite huge loss

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 08:00 EDT

PC builder generously trades 192 GB of DDR5 for an RTX 5070 Ti. Read more ›

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Two GTX 580s in SLI are responsible for the AI we have today — Nvidia's Huang revealed that the invention of deep learning began with two flagship Fermi GPUs in 2012

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 08:00 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in a recent Joe Rogan podcast that the inventors behind deep learning ran the world's first machine learning network on a pair of GTX 580s in SLI in 2012. Read more ›

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3D-printed part failure causes light aircraft crash after plastic air intake melts during flight — pilot escapes with minor injuries

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/06/2025 07:30 EDT

A light aircraft crashed in the U.K. after its engine intake melted while on final approach. Read more ›

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Asus quotes customer $3,350 repair bill for RTX 5090 with microscopic 'surface irregularity', more than the entire card's value — offers 50% discount after months of haggling

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 07:15 EDT

Redditor shares his ongoing struggle to get Asus to RMA an expensive ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. Read more ›

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1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum — relic spins its gears uncontrollably in 'chaotic loop' of endless motion

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 07:00 EDT

Divide by zero is one of computing’s most notorious error conditions - and an old mechanical calculator doesn't handle it gracefully. Read more ›

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'World's first scalable DNA data storage offering' announced offering a staggering ‘60PB in 60 cubic inches,’ enough to hold 660,000 4K movies — Atlas Data storage claims its solution is 1000x denser than LTO-10 tape

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 06:30 EDT

Atlas Data Storage, a DNA-based storage tech startup, has announced its first commercial offering. Read more ›

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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 06:00 EDT

Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports. Read more ›

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Avoid sky-high DDR5 prices and save $150 with this Asus B850 board and 16GB Team Group RAM bundle deal

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 14:46 EDT

Skirt ridiculous DDR5 prices in this smokin' deal from Newegg. $229 buys a mid-range Asus B850-A Gaming Wifi R2 motherboard and 16GB Team Group DDR5-6000 RAM - $150 off Read more ›

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