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AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199 — add four M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and 11 USB ports to any PC with a PCIe slot

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Tom's Hardware · 06/06/2026 12:29 EDT

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion. Read more ›

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Get a pre-built PC with 32GB of RAM for under $1,000 — this mid-range gaming desktop delivers decent performance for an affordable price during these trying times

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 10:48 EDT

The ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC is on sale for $999.99, slashing $400 off its regular price. This pre-built comes with an Intel Core i5-14400F, an RTX 5060, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM. Read more ›

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Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 10:04 EDT

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave up. Read more ›

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IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:35 EDT

Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues. Read more ›

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‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win — beat 256 other spreadsheet whizzes to claim the $60,000 first prize in Las Vegas tournament

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:15 EDT

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early. Read more ›

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RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses review: Intriguing, high-priced glasses with alarming battery life

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:00 EDT

If you have a short attention span and money to blow, the RayNeo X3 Pro might be up your alley, as it's expensive and has short battery life. Read more ›

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Nintendo Switch 2 to reportedly get smaller capacity game cartridges soon, offering an alternative to costly 64GB cards — Storage crisis might delay production, however

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 07:40 EDT

The Switch 2's Game-Key Card controversy has a burning new development, and we might finally have a middleground between expensive 64 GB Game Cards and digital-only releases. Smaller capacity cartridges, such as 16 or 32 GB, are reportedly in production but industry-wide shortages might disrupt their adoption and make them more expensive. Read more ›

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Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2025 07:20 EDT

A massive, multi-year project to recover Sega Channel games from the mid 1990s has been a resounding success, with many exclusives saved. Read more ›

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Over 1,800 North Korean applicants flood Amazon — suspected illicit applicants blocked by the company since April 2024

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 07:00 EDT

The Amazon CSO reported that the company has seen over 1,800 applicants that it suspects are North Koreans posing as Americans. Read more ›

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Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 06:40 EDT

Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago. Read more ›

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Russia has reportedly improved the range of its jam-proof optical drones to over 40 miles — purported Chinese-Russian collaborative production imagery reveals dramatically increased tethered drone range

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 06:20 EDT

Imagery of spools carrying 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber, for FPV drone control, have been shared on Russian social media channels. Read more ›

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2025 06:00 EDT

Moore Threads has just revealed its next-gen GPU architecture coming in 2026, dubbed "Huagang," which will bring new gaming and AI GPUs. The "Lushan" gaming GPU is promising up to 15x increase in AAA gaming performance, while the "Huashan" AI GPU is gunning for a spot between Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell lineups. Read more ›

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Logitech’s top-selling G502 Hero gaming mouse is nearly half-price at just $38 on Amazon — save up to 53% on this fan favorite

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 12:50 EDT

The G502 Hero continues to attract gamers years after launch and at its current price, it delivers strong value for those looking for a customizable, well-built gaming mouse. Read more ›

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:50 EDT

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›

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You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly — GPU Drivers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:26 EDT

AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 4 seemingly works on older hardware but is currently not officially supported. Read more ›

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Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:23 EDT

After 18,000 hours of simulated use, RTINGS' longevity test reveals fascinating insights into the TVs that dominate our markets today. While OLED has clearly overcome its reliability woes to become the least vulnerable panel type, LCDs with local dimming are still competitive and fare better than their unified-backlight brethren. Read more ›

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Valve discontinues the most affordable Steam Deck — $399 LCD version on the way out as new starting point is $549

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 10:13 EDT

Valve announced on the Steam page that it's discontinuing the $399 LCD Steam Deck, saying that it's only available until stocks last. Read more ›

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China's new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 09:33 EDT

China has brought online a national experimental research network designed to support experimentation on future network designs and to improve data transmission quality. Read more ›

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Registry hack enables new performance-boosting native NVMe support on Windows 11 — Windows Server 2025 feature can be unlocked for consumer PCs, but at your own risk

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 09:14 EDT

The Windows Server 2025 registry tweak that activates native NVMe support can also be activated in Windows 11, but at your own risk. Read more ›

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The USB Power Delivery (PD) Specification — everything you need to know about USB-PD

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 09:00 EDT

Learn the secrets of the USB PD specification as we delve into how the specification has changed in over a decade of revisions Read more ›

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Google killed the 25-year-old Sega Dreamcast PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser this week — big G's services no longer respond to this quarter-century-old software

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 08:00 EDT

The Sega Dreamcast’s ancient pack-in internet browser was killed by Google earlier this week. Read more ›

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