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Nvidia reinstates 32-bit PhysX support for RTX 50 series as part of its latest Game Ready driver rollout — 9 titles included in initial release

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 09:05 EDT

After discontinuing the feature earlier this year, Nvidia is bringing back GPU-powered PhysX compatibility for the RTX 50 lineup. Read more ›

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Newegg's latest RAM bundle for $179 pairs 16GB of DDR5-6000 memory with an essentially free MSI B650 motherboard — offset astronomical price rises with limited-time bundled deals

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 08:59 EDT

Pay $179 for 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and an MSI B650 motherboard bundle from Newegg, and save $129. Read more ›

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AMD raises Radeon RX 9000 GPU prices, increasing by $10 for every 8GB of VRAM — another price hike is also scheduled for January 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 08:56 EDT

Industry sources have confirmed to Tom's Hardware that AMD has raised the price of its Radeon gaming graphics card by $10 per 8GB. Read more ›

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unsure if China would buy its H200 chips if restrictions are relaxed as Beijing prioritizes homegrown AI solutions — 'We don’t know. We have no clue.'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 08:14 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits that he has no idea whether Nvidia can sell its H200 chips in China even if Washington allows the company to export them. Read more ›

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Intel drops plans to sell networking and communication division — says keeping NEX in-house will strengthen integration and customer offerings

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 07:56 EDT

Cash influxes from the U.S. government, Nvidia, and SoftBank stabilized Intel enough to cancel plans to spin out its networking and communications division. Read more ›

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Chinese tech firm Cambricon looks to step into Nvidia void, triple AI chip production next year — seeks to rival Huawei, but production remains a concern

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 07:52 EDT

Chinese tech firm Cambricon Technologies has plans to triple its production of domestic AI chips in 2026, targeting the market dominance of national giant Huawei. Primarily set to rely on Semiconductor Manufacturing International for fabrication, it's not entirely clear how Cambricon will get enough wafers to achieve its goals. Read more ›

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Nexperia’s standoff puts a core part of the chip supply chain under strain — U.S export controls and red tape may threaten consumer continuity without governance

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 07:15 EDT

Dutch intervention, China’s retaliation, and widening U.S. controls have turned a major European component supplier into the centre of a three-way dispute. Read more ›

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 12/04/2025 06:00 EDT

1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024. Read more ›

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First ARM-supported 3D driver for discrete gaming GPUs emerges from China — Lisuan 7G106 runs 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM machine

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 05:00 EDT

Lisuan's 7G105 discrete GPU was spotted running 3DMark in an ARM-based machine, revealing that Lisuan has quite possibly built the first 3D graphics driver that supports ARM machines that works with a dedicated graphics card. Read more ›

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Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 17:42 EDT

The U.S. House shelved the GAIN AI Act, blocking a rule that would have forced AMD and Nvidia to put U.S. buyers ahead of China for advanced GPUs, though Beijing's own limits blunt the impact. Read more ›

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Asus reportedly halts ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments — $4,000 halo card could be dead in its tracks for now due to quality control issue

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 14:40 EDT

Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments halted due to QC issue Read more ›

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Micron is killing Crucial SSDs and memory in AI pivot — company refocuses on HBM and enterprise customers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 13:52 EDT

After 29 years, Micron decided to wind down its Crucial consumer business amid switching resources to HBM memory and enterprise-grade hardware. Read more ›

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Segotep's Titanload 12V-2x6 cables use heavier-duty pins to prevent meltdowns — brute-force approach purportedly drops peak temps by up to 72%

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 13:08 EDT

Segotep's Titanload family of 12V-2x6 cables use higher-capacity pins to try and reduce the risk of meltdowns under heavy GPU load. Read more ›

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MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk MAX Wifi PZ Review: Project Zero cleans up the cables

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:58 EDT

The MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wi-Fi PZ mainboard is designed to offer a sleek, clutter-free setup by positioning all its connections on the board's backside, providing a solid base to build your system around. Read more ›

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IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — warns there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:51 EDT

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself. Read more ›

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GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:07 EDT

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series Read more ›

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Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys stake strengthens its push into AI-accelerated chip design — partnership to bolster GPU-accelerated EDA tools, but a careful balance is required

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 10:36 EDT

Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs. Read more ›

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Customer buys RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but got rocks instead — $1,200 GPU arrived in tampered box with broken seal

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 10:07 EDT

A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting what they paid for. Read more ›

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Enthusiast adds OCuLink port to Framework 16 Laptop — offering PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth for big GPU performance gains

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 09:45 EDT

The project has been bandied about for years, but has finally come to fruition thanks to the dedicated efforts of one modder. Read more ›

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Get a 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT prebuilt gaming PC for just $2,199 — Skytech's hi-spec offering also comes with 2TB of SSD storage and 32GB of DDR5

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 09:04 EDT

Featuring top-tier components. The Skytech Gaming Prism 4 desktop PC is yours for $2199 in this Newegg deal. Read more ›

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