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Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 11:14 EDT

A lifeless RTX 4090 with 48GB of VRAM landed on a repair bench, showing no display output. What followed was a deep dive into diagnostics, power rail checks, and trace hunting—only to reveal hidden PCB damage so severe that even expert fixes couldn’t bring the GPU back from the dead. Read more ›

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Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 11:06 EDT

Microsoft is putting Copilot Gaming (Beta) on the Game Bar for Xbox Insiders, while giving every creator access to its new AI-driven 2D to 3D feature (as long as you have a Microsoft Account). Read more ›

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China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 10:08 EDT

A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips. Read more ›

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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 09:34 EDT

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as 'garbage.' Read more ›

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Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — PCB looks stunning when matched with fully transparent shell

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 09:01 EDT

Natalie built the schematics and circuit herself, but ordered the clear PCB from a third-party supplier. Read more ›

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Intel's Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores — Entire lineup is reportedly limited to a single compute tile

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:40 EDT

Core configs for Intel's Nova Lake mobile lineup has reportedly leaked, with the top HX variant featuring up to 28 CPU cores and 4 GPU cores. Nova Lake-H and Nova Lake-U families also detailed. Read more ›

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Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:20 EDT

WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 was serious but has been fixed in version 7.13. Read more ›

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Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring — compatibility and reliability issues could increase over time

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:08 EDT

Intel is continuing to drop more Linux maintainers and Linux drivers due to corporate restructuring within the company. Read more ›

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AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:01 EDT

A software engineer, who previously accused AWS of 'digital execution,' has shared the good news that his data has now been restored. Read more ›

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Battlefield 6 reaches record half a million concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 18:45 EDT

If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever. Read more ›

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Seagate's monstrous BarraCuda 24TB hard drive on sale for only one cent per gigabyte — drops back to Prime Day pricing at $250

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 14:55 EDT

Newegg is offering Seagate's legendary BarraCuda hard drive in its 24TB variant for only $250 right now, that amounts to a cent per gigabyte. These are great savings for a NAS-ready, 7200 RPM hard drive that use the fat better CMR tech instead of the archaic SMR method. Read more ›

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AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 14:46 EDT

But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into. Read more ›

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Blizzard's ex-CEO says Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" Call of Duty this year because the franchise has "gone downhill" — calls it a victory for players as COD "won't be lazy" anymore

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 13:22 EDT

Battlefield 6 has been receiving critical and fan acclaim over the past few days, and Mike Ybarro, Blizzard's former president, has shared a similar sentiment. He says Call of Duty has "gone downhill" and that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" COD this year for several reasons. Read more ›

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California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopolize the generative AI market”

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 13:10 EDT

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 by October 2025, but someone is suing the company to stop it from doing so. Read more ›

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Retailer ships RTX 5090 with missing GPU and memory chips to customer — defaced GPU took over a year to ship

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 12:56 EDT

Another victim has been scammed out of an RTX 5090 from Amazon's French location. Despite buying an RTX 5090 from an Amazon-hosted listing, the buyer received a card with a missing GPU core and missing memory modules. Read more ›

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Fully working PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbed — trash-binned system can still run Linux and light games

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 12:19 EDT

The PC, which was rescued from a dumpster, has an Intel Core i5-6600 CPU and an AMD Radeon R9 380 GPU. Read more ›

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Battlefield 6 keeps crashing on Intel Arc GPUs — here are some workarounds until Intel releases a fix

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 11:32 EDT

Battlefield 6’s open beta is crashing on Intel Arc A-series GPUs, with issues tied to the game’s default Borderless mode. Intel is working on a driver fix, but players can avoid crashes by switching to Full Screen/Windowed or using a risky legacy control panel tweak. Read more ›

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Award-winning 1440p 300 Hz gaming monitor drops to a new all-time low of $269

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 11:30 EDT

The AOC CQ27G4ZH, our favorite gaming monitor and Editor's Choice, is currently available at Amazon for $269, its lowest price to date according to data from CamelCamelCamel. Read more ›

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Enthusiast builds 'AMD gaming PC' entirely made of cardboard — specs include unreleased AMD 5800GT CPU, DDR8 RAM, PCIe 6.0 SSD, and 2,400W power supply

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 11:27 EDT

A Redditor built several PC components out of cardboard with intricate detail to build a cardboard PC that spins and lights up. It's not a real computer, though. Read more ›

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$3 keychain lets you carry a functioning keyboard switch and keycap with you wherever you go — fidget toy is compatible with Cherry MX switches and keycaps

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 10:43 EDT

A Japanese company has started selling the My Key Keychain that accepts Cherry MX-compatible switches and keycaps, allowing you to bring your favorite keyboard feel wherever you go. Read more ›

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