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Noctua NH-P1 Review: For those who demand silence

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 07/15/2025 08:00 EDT

Noctua’s NH-P1 is a fanless CPU cooler that performs well. We’ve tested it with Intel’s i9-13900K, i7-14700K, AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700x, and Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Read more ›

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Meta plans multi-GW data center that's nearly the size of Manhattan — Zuckerberg promises enormous AI splash as company uses 'tents' to try and keep up with rate of expansion

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2025 07:39 EDT

Meta is building data centers and building them fast. Using on-site power generation, lightweight building materials, and billions of dollars, Meta is looking to scale up its AI infrastructure as quickly as possible. Read more ›

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UK Nintendo Switch 2 owners can grab PNY's 256GB microSD Express card for £59, finally back in stock

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2025 07:38 EDT

Hurry and grab PNY's 256GB microSD Express storage card while it's back in stock! Read more ›

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Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue — Content creator with over a million subs issues warning after buying an old copy of Bayo 3 on eBay

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2025 07:22 EDT

A Switch 2 owner has had their Nintendo console 'restricted' after installing a Switch game they bought on the used market. Read more ›

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Nvidia to resume H20 sales in China — says U.S. government has promised to grant licenses, deliveries to start soon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2025 07:09 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been busy lobbying the U.S. and China so that the company can resume the sales of its H20 AI GPUs. Read more ›

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Zotac breathes new life into leftover MXM RTX 5000 Ada GPUs in China at $4,700 a pop — PCIe adapter brings mobile Ada Lovelace GPU to desktops

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 14:15 EDT

The MXM variant of the RTX 5000 Ada from Zotac has gone on sale in China with an eye-watering price tag of around $4,742.80. Read more ›

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Upscaling can't save the world's slowest 'modern' GPU — FSR doubles performance on GT 1030, but titles still barely playable

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 12:59 EDT

Nvidia's 5-year-old GT 1030 was tested in several games, including AAA games to see if FSR upsclaing can bring frame rates into playable territory. Spoiler alert, it did not. Read more ›

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$5,500 RTX 5090D with dual 16-pin power connectors and 2000W TDP lands on eBay — Galax's HOF OC Lab XOC 5090D, formerly exclusive to China, hits resale market

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 12:48 EDT

After being banned in China, Galax's RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC, with dual 16-pin connectors and a 2,000W BIOS, has surfaced on eBay for over $5,500. Built for record-breaking overclocking, this might be the most extreme 5090 out there. Read more ›

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Windows 7 runs natively on the Steam Deck — desktop OS enthusiast aims to push beyond portrait mode-only limit

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 11:37 EDT

Windows 7 can run natively on the Steam Deck, according to testing by operating systems enthusiast Bob Pony. Read more ›

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Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid U.S. AI tech — 'they don’t need Nvidia’s chips or American tech stacks in order to build their military'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 11:05 EDT

Jensen Huang said in an interview that we don't have to worry about the Chinese military using advanced American AI tech to develop its own capabilities. Read more ›

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Switch 2 devs are already bleating about performance issues — Donkey Kong Bananza director reveals challenges

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 10:47 EDT

Nintendo Switch 2 developers are already feeling the constraints of the new console’s hardware and are aware of performance drops in the new Donkey Kong Bananza. Read more ›

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New Rowhammer attack silently corrupts AI models on GDDR6 Nvidia cards — 'GPUHammer' attack drops AI accuracy from 80% to 0.1% on RTX A6000

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 10:02 EDT

GPUHammer is a new Rowhammer-based attack targeting NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory. It flips bits in VRAM to silently corrupt AI models, dropping accuracy from 80% to under 1%. NVIDIA urges users to enable ECC, though it slightly reduces performance and available memory. Read more ›

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Leaked ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Ally X prices hint at a similar price range to existing models — 599, 899 euro prices spotted in the EU

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 09:44 EDT

Alleged European prices place the Xbox Ally consoles in the same range as current ROG models. Read more ›

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Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10 Review: Dual-screen productivity powerhouse

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 09:00 EDT

Lenovo’s dual-screen ultrabook, the Yoga Book 9i, offers stunning screens, but short battery life. Read more ›

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Slashed in price by 37%, SanDisk's 512GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 is only $78 while stocks last, and that won't be very long

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 08:13 EDT

A rare 512GB microSD Express SanDisk card is on sale at Walmart for a ridiculously low price. Read more ›

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Google Gemini crumbles in the face of Atari Chess challenge — admits it would 'struggle immensely' against 1.19 MHz machine, says canceling the match most sensible course of action

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 07:48 EDT

Google Gemini decided to call off its chess match against the ancient 1.19 Mhz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. Read more ›

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Passionate enthusiast builds a fully functional processor out of old memory chips — hand-solders every wire, writes 1800 lines of assembler code, and makes it play The Matrix on a VFD display

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/14/2025 06:57 EDT

Someone just built a fully functional CPU from scratch using old memory chips and logic parts from the 8-bit era. Spanning four perfboards and over a kilometer of wire, it runs real code, handles interrupts, and even plays The Matrix—all using logic simulated entirely through EPROMs. Read more ›

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TensorWave just deployed the largest AMD GPU training cluster in North America — features 8,192 MI325X AI accelerators tamed by direct liquid-cooling

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 06:53 EDT

TensorWave has built North America's largest AMD AI cluster with 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325X GPUs, delivering 21 exaFLOPS of FP8 throughput. It’s a bold move against NVIDIA’s dominance and marks ROCm’s first major public cloud-scale deployment for general-purpose AI training. Read more ›

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Snot-filtering tech could be the answer to a dust-free PC — Korean scientists turn to nature to improve air filtration

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 06:07 EDT

A recent research paper, 'inspired by the natural filtration abilities of mucus-coated nasal hairs,' might have some answers for improved PC air filtration. Read more ›

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Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment rumors suggest it would rather sell AI infrastructure than compete with ChatGPT and Gemini

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2025 05:51 EDT

AWS is in prime position to power the AI revolution, rather than win it. Read more ›

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