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Get AMD's flagship Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5 memory and an MSI B850 Wi-Fi 7 motherboard at a discount — Micro Center bundles are now available on Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 06/20/2026 13:57 EDT

Micro Center is now selling some of its bundles on Amazon, including this 9800X3D combo that gives you an excellent motherboard and fast RAM without breaking the bank. Read more ›

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Grab a Crucial X10 portable SSD with a 30% discount — savings up to $182, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB models all on sale

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 17:39 EDT

During this Prime Day sale, Amazon offers competitive prices on Crucial's newest X10 portable SSD. Read more ›

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Samsung Odyssey G3 27-inch gaming monitor drops to all-time low $129.99 — $100 discount for a limited time on Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 15:25 EDT

Samsung drops the price of its value gaming monitor by $100, giving you a 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for less than $150. Read more ›

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Save $350 on Apple's MacBook Air M1 13.3-inch laptop — discount lands within $20 of all-time low price

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 13:14 EDT

Apple's MacBook Air, powered by the M1 processor, is now available for $649, a $350 savings. Read more ›

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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:17 EDT

GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable than it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:13 EDT

Bambu Lab introduces cloud-free farm management tool. Read more ›

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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:06 EDT

China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes. Read more ›

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DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 11:10 EDT

A few smaller manufacturers are pushing back their plans to discontinue DDR4 production because of surging prices in the global market. Read more ›

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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 07/04/2025 10:56 EDT

Benchmark results for AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores. Read more ›

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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4" square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:44 EDT

GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable that it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout. Read more ›

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The best Fourth of July 2025 deals —explosive deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:42 EDT

The best 4th of July deals spotted so far for the holiday weekend Read more ›

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Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:01 EDT

Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups. Read more ›

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This invention can use LiDAR to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second with a laser — Photonmatrix range has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/04/2025 07:38 EDT

A popular new crowdfunding campaign promises an all-in-one portable laser-driven mosquito killing machine for $498. Read more ›

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Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, no luck with steering

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 07:02 EDT

Forget expensive simracing setups with carbon fiber seats and podium racing wheels, this is what driving in games should look like. Read more ›

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Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generations and fewer lanes

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 06:08 EDT

Puget Systems has tested a range of PCIe configurations for its GPU in different professional applications and found that lane generation and width can make a real difference. Read more ›

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Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/04/2025 05:41 EDT

Elon Musk's xAI is set to build million-GPU data center expected to draw up to 2 GW of power, prompting Musk to buy and import an entire power plant. Read more ›

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Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB SSD drops to excellent all-time low $234 — DRAM-less drive gets blowout sale for early Prime Day

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Tom's Hardware · 07/03/2025 15:55 EDT

You can get the Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB for just $234, 47% off its original MSRP. Read more ›

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Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave

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Tom's Hardware · 07/03/2025 14:53 EDT

CoreWeave deploys first Dell GB300 cluster with Switch: Up to 1.1 ExaFLOPS of AI inference performance per rack. Read more ›

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Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/03/2025 13:50 EDT

Sources cite that Samsung is delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab because the site lacks customers for its 4nm-class chip output. Read more ›

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Newegg slashes Ryzen 7 7800X3D price, now just $369 with a free 1TB SSD — last-gen chip is a stellar deal with 95% of the gaming performance of the newer model

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Tom's Hardware · 07/03/2025 12:22 EDT

You can get a Ryzen 7 7800X3D for $370 at Newegg, replete with a free 1TB SSD. Read more ›

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Dell's own Black Friday in July summer sale strips $350 off price of the Alienware's 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor, AW3225QF deal gives Prime Day a run for its money

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Tom's Hardware · 07/03/2025 12:04 EDT

Dell's Prime Day rival summer sale drops the price of the 4K QD-OLED AW3225QF to just $849 - its lowest-ever Read more ›

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