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Raspberry Pi 500+ Review: RGB clicky keys and NVMe storage, but with a $200 price tag

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Tom's Hardware · 09/25/2025 03:00 EDT

Raspberry Pi has released an updated version of the Raspberry Pi 500 and this time the omitted NVMe storage is present, as is an RGB mechanical keyboard. Read more ›

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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite chips for PCs stretch up to a record 5 GHz — 3nm Arm chips sport new Oryon Prime cores

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 16:30 EDT

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite SoCs, and is making big claims about improvements over last gen. Read more ›

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Alibaba announces partnership with Nvidia despite Beijing’s bans — Chinese e-commerce giant is prioritizing AI with plans for global expansion

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 13:53 EDT

Alibaba is partnering with Nvidia for its Physical AI software stack, while also announcing plans to expand the global footprint of its data centers. Read more ›

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Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 13:03 EDT

It is notoriously easy to own more games than you have time to play on Steam, but one user has taken this phenomenon to the extreme. Read more ›

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OpenAI may lease Nvidia GPUs instead of buying them — financial engineering deal could cut hardware costs in pursuit of 10GW buildout

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 13:03 EDT

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease high-performance GPUs from Nvidia, rather than purchase them outright, as part of its plan to build out custom AI data centers over the next several years. Read more ›

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SMI SM2504XT ES 2TB SSD Review: A Mid-Range PCIe 5.0 Challenger

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 12:58 EDT

The SMI SM2504XT ES is a capable, power-efficient PCIe 5.0 SSD on a platform that should offer a more affordable high-end experience. It takes the competing Phison E31T to task in all the right ways. Read more ›

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AMD keeps AM4 platform on life support with 2020-era Zen 3 CPU — Ryzen 3 5100 surfaces, nine years after AM4 launch

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 12:44 EDT

Hardware leaker momomo_us has shared a photograph of the Ryzen 3 5100, a Zen 3 processor from the Cezanne days. Read more ›

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Check that you're ready for invasive DRM with new feature built right into Steam — Secure Boot and TPM status now listed right in the app

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 11:34 EDT

Valve has just added the ability to check your Secure Boot and TPM status in the latest Steam beta update. Secure Boot and TPM are required for most modern online games, and pretty much every anti-cheat software relies on them. Now, all you need to do is open Steam to check if they're enabled or not. Read more ›

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Microsoft develops breakthrough chip cooling method — microfluidic channels can cut peak temps by up to 65%, outperform conventional cold plates by up to 3x

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 11:10 EDT

Microsoft has proposed a breakthrough cooling method using microfluidic channels etched directly into the silicon die, which cuts peak chip temperatures by up to 65% and outperforms cold plates by up to 3 times. Read more ›

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Solidigm touts industry's first liquid-cooled enterprise SSD — D7-PS1010 is an E.1 PCIe 5.0 drive with a wrap-around cold plate

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 11:07 EDT

Solidigm's D7-PS1010 is the industry's first dual-sided liquid-cooled enterprise SSD. Read more ›

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The Nvidia RTX 5080 drops to new lowest-ever price — grab the PNY OC model for $929 at Walmart

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 09:41 EDT

Pricing for Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs finally seems to be stabilizing. Read more ›

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AI slop infects PC watercooling with Thermaltake's 'AI Forge' feature — adds generative AI to its MagFloe Ultra AIO screens for custom backgrounds

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 09:25 EDT

Thermaltake has just unveiled a new feature coming to its MagFloe Ultra lineup of AIO liquid coolers, called "AI Forge." This will allow you to whip up custom backgrounds for the screen on these coolers with just a prompt, right from within the TT Plus ARGB 3.0 software, without the need for any third-party apps. Read more ›

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iBuyPower Y40 Pro Review: Style first

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 09:00 EDT

The iBuyPower Y40 Pro is competitively priced for its performance, though its priority on form over function introduces compromises that make it hard to recommend. Read more ›

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Find My Parking Cops uses data scraped from City website to track parking fines in real time — entire website dedicated to helping San Francisco motorists avoid parking tickets goes live

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 08:11 EDT

This web app tracks the locations of issued parking tickets in real time using the City of San Francisco's own parking ticket payment portal. Read more ›

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Intel could be working on its own multi-frame generation tech — XeSS MFG name and logo found in Arc graphics driver files

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 07:36 EDT

Intel might be working on its own multi-frame generation to combat Nvidia and AMD. Buried within the latest Arc graphics fiver, someone on Reddit found mentions of "Multi-Frame Generation (XeSS)" along with a potential logo — all hinting at Intel's own multi-frame gen tech. Read more ›

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Nvidia and Intel’s RTX SoCs could pose an existential threat to AMD’s APUs — if two companies can actually pull it off

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 06:53 EDT

AMD’s APUs now rival entry GPUs, but Intel and NVIDIA aim higher: RTX chiplets, NVLink and Foveros promise scalable SoCs beyond what AMD can easily match. Read more ›

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GPD Win 5 handheld soars with Strix Halo — gaming deck is almost twice as fast as Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 competitors at same power

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Tom's Hardware · 09/24/2025 05:00 EDT

More content creators have benchmarked GPD's bleeding-edge Win 5 handheld sporting AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU. The high-end SoC produces twice the frame rate of Ryzen AI 9 HX 370-powered handhelds, even at the same power levels. Read more ›

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China's latest GPU arrives with claims of CUDA compatibility and RT support — Fenghua No.3 also boasts 112GB+ of HBM memory for AI

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 13:39 EDT

Innosilicon has announced its latest flagship GPU on board the Fenghua No.3 graphics card. Read more ›

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You can get a PNY RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB card for only $379 — GPU drops to historical low price for the 16 GB variant

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 13:04 EDT

There's finally an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB for a historic low of $379. PNY has one on sale, which is welcome when GPU prices have been so high. Read more ›

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Nvidia's $100 billion investment in OpenAI raises big antitrust concerns — legal experts and policymakers raise eyebrows over potential for market imbalance

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 11:14 EDT

Nvidia's planned $100 billion investment in OpenAI represents a historic alliance between the dominant AI GPU developer and a leading AI model developer, but it raises serious antitrust concerns over potential market favoritism, supply chain imbalances, and regulatory scrutiny. Read more ›

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