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Asus ROG’s lavish RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition surfaces at a UAE retailer which offers worldwide shipping — currently discounted 11%, to $9,205

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Tom's Hardware · 08/17/2025 07:56 EDT

Asus’ gold-plated ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition has surfaced on UAE retailer Microless for $9,205 with global shipping, alongside the $2,589 RTX 5080 Dhahab Core. Both feature lavish Middle Eastern-themed designs, real 24K gold, and identical specs to their standard counterparts. Read more ›

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DIYer creates ‘RTX 5090 countermeasures’ with cabling spaghetti to mitigate 16-pin meltdowns — system automatically shuts down when the overcurrent protection is triggered

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Tom's Hardware · 08/16/2025 13:01 EDT

A DIY “RTX 5090 Countermeasures” system to prevent connector thermal damage implements a lot of wiring. Read more ›

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Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 7 254V Lunar Lake chip leaks out in new benchmarks — scores worse than entry-level Core Ultra 5 228V in early multi-core tests, but on par in single-core

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Tom's Hardware · 08/16/2025 12:24 EDT

A new Lunar Lake chips has leaked, the Core Ultra 7 254V, showing up on PassMark with middling multi-core benchmark scores that place it even below the base Core Ultra 5 228V. Single-core scores are on par with other Core Ultra 7 chips but we don't get any specs revelation. Read more ›

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Nvidia says H20 export controls didn’t stop China’s AI progress — claims 'they only stifled U.S. economic and technology leadership'

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Tom's Hardware · 08/16/2025 11:37 EDT

Nvidia shared an opinion piece by Aaron Ginn, co-founder of AI company Hydra Host, stating that despite the U.S.’s export controls on Nvidia’s H20 chips, China continued to achieve AI breakthroughs. Read more ›

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Get an RTX 5080 at MSRP — Yes, you read that right, Newegg has Zotac and MSI RTX 5080 GPUs at 'a discount' from their original prices

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Tom's Hardware · 08/16/2025 10:58 EDT

Both GPUs are currently available at Nvidia's original MSRP of $999 Read more ›

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You can now buy replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet colors — compatible with Logitech, Kensington, Elecom, and ProtoArc mice

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Tom's Hardware · 08/16/2025 10:43 EDT

Replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet are now available for sale. Read more ›

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Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 08/16/2025 06:30 EDT

Seagate's security team from Singapore and Malaysia and local Malaysian authorities have raided a counterfeiting hard drive warehouse located outside Kuala Lumpur. Read more ›

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Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips — levies coming within two weeks as Section 232 investigation nears completion

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 16:50 EDT

Trump’s floated plan for semiconductor tariffs as high as 300% has rattled the tech industry. Read more ›

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These are my favorite pretty PC peripherals that aren't pink, black, or white

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 15:39 EDT

Looking to add a pop of color that isn't pink to your desktop? Check out our favorite colorful peripherals. Read more ›

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I 3D printed an entire server case with the Elegoo Centauri Carbon – this is what happened and how much it cost

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 14:29 EDT

I spent a week 3D printing a PC server case using Elegoo’s first Core XY 3D printer and plenty of PETG filament. Read more ›

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Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 13:21 EDT

A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters. Read more ›

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The 4K Samsung Odyssey G70B is only $300, a massive $400 discount from its original price — perfect for back-to-school shoppers

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 13:17 EDT

Samsung is known to make some of the best gaming monitors on the market, and the G70B is no exception. With its 4K resolution and 144 Hz refresh rate, it's a perfect combination of specs and price, at just $300. It even has local dimming, G-Sync support, and a whole smart TV built in, thanks to Tizen OS support. Read more ›

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This 15.6-inch IPS portable monitor is 36% off — at only $69, this is a cheap answer to your Back to School second screen needs

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 13:07 EDT

The Arzopa S1 Table portable monitor checks a lot of boxes with its 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution IPS display, convenient USB Type-C (power and display) and HDMI options, and even built-in speakers, for an alluring $69.99. The regular Amazon list price is $109.99. Read more ›

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Early RTX 5090D V2 benchmarks suggest that maybe 384-bit memory is just fine after all — 'nerfed' China-market GPU runs within 2.2% of 5090D in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 12:56 EDT

Early benchmarks of Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 in games reveal that the GPU's neutered 384-bit interface and 24GB of GDDR7 memory don't downgrade its gaming capabilities at all. The RTX 5090D V2 performs on par with the RTX 5090D. Read more ›

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China-based firm delivers its first chipmaking tool that stamps nanoscale chip designs onto wafers — Prinano's nanoimprint lithography tool uses quartz molds engraved with circuits

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 12:52 EDT

China's Prinano Technology has shipped its first domestically developed semiconductor-grade step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography system that offers sub-10 nm single-step patterning for applications like memory, photonics, and advanced packaging. Read more ›

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Bizarre cyberattack blamed on Russia and China-linked hackers permanently breaks dozens of speed cameras in the Netherlands — authorities decline to reveal location of affected cameras, for obvious reasons

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 08/15/2025 11:45 EDT

A hack reportedly left "dozens" of speed cameras in the Netherlands inoperable and unrecoverable. Read more ›

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Russia hacked and took control of a Norwegian dam, police chief claims — released over 1,900,000 gallons of water before attack was noticed

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 08/15/2025 11:23 EDT

Moscow is to blame for a cyberattack on a dam, which remotely opened the floodgates for a period of around four hours, says Norway's security chief. Read more ›

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AMD's elusive Radeon AI Pro R9700 makes its first retail appearance for the DIY market — Customer on Reddit buys the Gigabyte "AI Top" variant for $1,324

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 11:12 EDT

AMD’s Radeon AI Pro R9700, a 32GB RDNA 4 GPU aimed at AI workloads, has appeared in the DIY market for $1,324 via Gigabyte’s “AI Top” blower model. Matching RX 9070 XT’s core specs but doubling VRAM, it offers strong value versus pricier Nvidia offerings and is finally available outside of prebuilts. Read more ›

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Asus says 90% of PC and motherboard production has been offshored from China to blunt tariffs — manufacturing moved to Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 10:59 EDT

It's doing this to find lower tariffs put on neighboring countries. Read more ›

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Intel's new graphics driver lets you dedicate up to 87% of laptop memory capacity to the iGPU for VRAM — Core Ultra CPUs get "Shared GPU Memory Override" feature

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Tom's Hardware · 08/15/2025 09:43 EDT

Intel’s latest graphics driver (32.0.101.6987) introduces a “Shared GPU Memory Override” feature for certain Core Ultra CPUs with Arc graphics, letting users manually choose the amount of VRAM that's reserved from system RAM. The update also claims to offer smoother Windows animations, modest gaming FPS gains, and reduced resource usage. Read more ›

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