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Save $500 on this beastly gaming rig with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Ryzen 7800X3D, and 32GB of RAM — Skytech's desktop gaming PC now just $1,499

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Tom's Hardware · 06/13/2026 10:29 EDT

Looking for a solid gaming PC but tired of seeing exorbitant prices on every retailer's website? We've got you covered with this prebuilt, equipped with high-quality components ready for 1440p gaming and more, with a clear upgrade path once prices settle down. 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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Valve's 256GB LCD Steam Deck is an incredible 20% off — big price drop just in time for the Steam Autumn Sale

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 10:04 EDT

Valve's original gaming handheld is still a great performer for thousands and thousands of Steam games, and $320 is the cheapest it's been in a while. Read more ›

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The end of EU-imposed cookie consent pop-ups could be nigh — consent fatigue and clickspamageddon to be addressed by European Commission amendments to its 2009 e-Privacy Directive

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 09:56 EDT

The plague of cookie consent alerts, banners, and pop-ups that have added a sliver of sandpaper to web surfing since 2009 might be eradicated in December. Read more ›

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AI buildouts need $2 trillion in annual revenue to sustain growth, but massive cash shortfall looms — even generous forecasts highlight $800 billion black hole, says report

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 09:53 EDT

A new report by Bain & Company says AI’s compute appetite will require more than $500 billion per year in global data center investment by 2030. Read more ›

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Intel drops day zero game driver support for chips released last year — last-gen iGPUs on 14th-gen Core and older CPUs already put on the backburner of legacy software support

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 09:35 EDT

Intel essentially said that the integrated GPUs on its 11th- to 14th-generation Intel Core CPUs are obsolete. Read more ›

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This $12 external CD/DVD drive plays your old discs through a modern USB-C interface — at 35% off, this drive is an exceptional deal at Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 09:25 EDT

For those still using physical media, this $12 budget CD/DVD drive is the perfect solution to the modern problem of disk-driveless computers. Read more ›

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Sandisk WD Blue SN5100 2TB SSD Review: A Rhapsody in Blue

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 09:00 EDT

The Sandisk WD Blue SN5100 is the fastest QLC SSD we’ve seen so far, and it’s power-efficient, too. Read more ›

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OpenAI makes flurry of deals in drive towards for-profit model — AI giant teams up with Nvidia, Luxshare, Apple, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 08:41 EDT

OpenAI is making major moves to secure future GPUs and accelerate its hardware plans in a flurry of major deals worth billions of dollars, though questions remain about its future funding. Read more ›

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Nvidia promises its $100 billion OpenAI deal won't impact GPU supply — 'we will continue to make every customer a top priority'

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 08:27 EDT

Nvidia has released a statement to make it clear that, no matter what deals it does with companies to provide hardware or take an equity stake in their business, it will ensure all companies have equal access to next-generation GPU hardware. Read more ›

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World's fastest gaming CPU, AMD's 9800X3D, hits an all-time low price of $429 at Amazon — Newegg offers competing bundles with motherboards, RAM, and coolers

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 06:57 EDT

The king of gaming processors used to be almost impossible to get your hands on, but now you can get it for $50 off its MSRP. Read more ›

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Lenovo cancels some Legion Go 2 pre-orders, delays others due to massive demand — says it can't ship handheld consoles 'in a timely manner'

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Tom's Hardware · 09/23/2025 06:43 EDT

Lenovo has canceled some Legion Go 2 pre-orders due to supply issues, with other customers' deliveries delayed by five to ten weeks. Read more ›

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MediaTek reportedly mulling US chip production — could use TSMC's Arizona fab to avoid tariff fallout

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Tom's Hardware · 09/22/2025 16:57 EDT

MediaTek is in talks with TSMC to manufacture certain chips at its Arizona fab to satisfy U.S. customer demands and potentially avoid tariffs. Read more ›

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Nvidia and OpenAI forge $100 billion alliance to deliver 10 gigawatts of Nvidia hardware for AI datacenters

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Tom's Hardware · 09/22/2025 15:27 EDT

OpenAI and Nvidia partner for 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters Read more ›

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