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Save $125 on the high-end, direct-drive Thrustmaster T598 with new all-time low price — grab Thrustmaster racing wheels up to 40% off at Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 14:50 EDT

Thrustmaster is offering up to 40% off its popular racing wheels on Amazon, including a $125 discount on the high-end, direct-drive T598. Read more ›

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Save over $500 on the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop we've seen with an OLED screen — Grab Lenovo's Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 CPU for as low as $1,137 with discount code

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 13:55 EDT

If you've been looking for a high-performance laptop that comes with a modern OLED screen, end your search with the Lenovo Legion 5 (Gen 10). It's the cheapest we've ever seen an OLED laptop with an RTX 5070, saving you over $500 right now on both its base spec and the upgraded one we recommend. Read more ›

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TSMC chipmaking factories rocked by magnitude 7.0 earthquake that was the strongest in 27 years, but facilities escaped unharmed — company's earthquake protection measures pay off

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 12:40 EDT

Yesterday, the ground shook off the coast of Taiwan, slamming the country with the strongest earthquake in 27 years. The seismic wave registered 7.0 in Taiwan's scales, or 6.6 to 6.7 according to the USGS standard. Thankfully, according to reports, TSMC's factories are all intact, saving the world from yet another spike in chip prices. Read more ›

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World’s smallest fully-programmable autonomous robots are 'smaller than a grain of salt,' cost one penny apiece — researchers expect new micron-scale robots to be used in medicine, microscale manufacturing, and other areas

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 11:57 EDT

Fully programmable, autonomous robots 'smaller than a grain of salt' have been developed by research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Read more ›

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Cyberpunk 2077 transformed into a stunning VHS visual experience using new ReShade preset — so 1980s real you start watching for mullets, another enthusiast benchmarks preset's visuals using an actual VHS recording

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 10:57 EDT

A retro 'VHS tape' ReShade present targeting Cyberpunk 2077 is earning glowing plaudits on social media. Read more ›

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'World's first' 1,080 Hertz gaming monitor with dual-mode support announced — HKC's super speedy panel hits peak speeds at 720p, steps down to 540Hz at 1440p, will reportedly feature DP 2.1 UHBR20

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 10:48 EDT

HKC is bringing a 1,080 Hz gaming monitor to CES under its AntGamer brand, showing off a native 1440p 540 Hz panel that can use dual-mode to switch to a blistering 1,080 Hz at 720p. It's a Fast TN panel that is supposed to have DP 2.1 UHBR20 support. Read more ›

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Nexperia China seeks new wafer suppliers amid legal standoff with Dutch parent, could take 6 months for qualification — chip shortages have suspended some automotive production lines as Nexperia faces wafer shortage

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 09:28 EDT

Nexperia’s China unit is moving to line up new wafer suppliers over the next six to nine months amid a deepening legal and operational dispute with its Dutch parent company. Read more ›

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Razer laptop motherboard repair video showcases superhuman hand-soldering skills — PCB damage was the result of a misplaced screw on a motherboard 'a fatal design flaw'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 08:58 EDT

An electronics technician succeeds in the most intricate gaming laptop motherboard repair we have seen completed. Read more ›

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Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline — players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 08:32 EDT

Unknown entities have seemingly taken control of Rainbow Six Siege, giving away billions in credits and other rare goodies to random players. Ubisoft took down all online services, with servers still unavailable at the time of writing. Read more ›

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You can now buy 2 terabytes of DDR5 server RAM for the low price of just $39,000, and 4 TB for $77,000 — Nemix offers chart-topping capacities amidst an industry shortage

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 08:13 EDT

As we face an unprecedented memory crisis, some vendors are still upping the ceiling, introducing higher capacity RAM kits for eye-gouging prices. This time, though, it's registered ECC server memory not meant for consumers, and therefore, asking the price of a borderline luxurious car is justified here. Read more ›

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Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 08:00 EDT

Raptor Lake vs Arrow Lake Clash! Read more ›

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Chinese GPU manufacturer Zephyr confirms dead RDNA 2 GPU chips due to cracking, bulging, or shorting — Company says it has replaced several dead Navi 21 cores under warranty

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 07:20 EDT

A two-year-old cold case has reawakened as GPU OEM Zephyr has said it has replaced several dying Navi 21 cores on RX 6000 series graphics cards. Previously, this was an isolated incident that never got much attention, so this is our first outside confirmation of the high-end RDNA 2 GPU dies going poof and being RMA'd. Read more ›

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 07:00 EDT

We have seen these types of mods on multiple generations of Nvidia cards; it was only inevitable that the RTX 5080 would get the same treatment. Read more ›

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110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator upcycled into a gaming PC — massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 06:40 EDT

Billet Labs have teased a new gaming PC build where a 110 pound cast iron radiator is (almost entirely) the PC. Read more ›

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Extremely rare East German games console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 06:20 EDT

One of the rarest video games consoles has been acquired and tested by YouTube docu-channel Fern. Read more ›

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Amiga A500 Mini user builds working scale-sized Commodore 1084 monitor with 3D printed components — 3D printer project details shared for all

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Tom's Hardware · 12/28/2025 06:00 EDT

A retro computing aficionado with a love of the classic mini releases has built a complementary, compact, and cute 'Commodore 1084 Mini' monitor. Read more ›

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GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his "inability to count to three" — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike

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Tom's Hardware · 12/27/2025 12:56 EDT

GameStop just released a press release saying that it will help Valve co-founder Gabe Newell learn how to count to three. Read more ›

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ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results

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Tom's Hardware · 12/27/2025 12:10 EDT

OpenAI is reportedly still working on baking in ads into ChatGPT's results despite Altman's 'Code Red' earlier this month. Read more ›

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Xbox Full-Screen Experience support come to Lenovo Legion Go devices in latest update, with native FSE toggle — Legion Space now available as a widget in Xbox Game Bar

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Tom's Hardware · 12/27/2025 11:46 EDT

Lenovo Legion Go devices that already have FSE support can now enjoy richer integration with Microsoft's console-like UI, thanks to a new Legion Space update. Lenovo has added new shortcuts and a native Xbox Game Bar widget to expand Xbox FSE functionality, along with an FSE toggle right inside Legion Space. Read more ›

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Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store

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Tom's Hardware · 12/27/2025 09:32 EDT

Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up. Read more ›

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