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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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The best early Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals for tech heads — GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 11:42 EDT

Amazon's Prime Day returns for 2025. Here are some of the best early deals. Read more ›

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Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 11:09 EDT

A suspended IT worker who caused at least $200,000 of damage in an act of revenge upon his employer has been sentenced. Read more ›

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Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 10:31 EDT

Original Switch consoles, games, and membership prices are changing in Canada, but the company hasn't said whether they're going up or down. Read more ›

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Singapore AI chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by AI firm DeepSeek

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 09:42 EDT

Prosecutors are asking for more time to study documents and get responses from international third parties. Read more ›

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New AI model claims to help solve 3D printing disasters — PrintFix.io can analyze images of your prints to identify issues and fixes

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 08:51 EDT

Can AI be your new 3D printing guru? New AI-powered program offers advice to fix your 3D printing problem. Read more ›

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This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 08:45 EDT

If you are still computing in a workspace without hardware dials, Ploopy would like you to look at its Knob. Read more ›

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MicroSD card testing database exposes fakes, charts performance and endurance — 200 cards tested, 51 to destruction; 8 machines running 70 card readers wrote 18 petabytes for testing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:40 EDT

The Great MicroSD Card Survey is one of the most exhaustive guides to these fingernail sized slivers of storage that we have seen. Read more ›

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Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:22 EDT

Benchmarks by Inno3D show the RTX 5050 performing nearly at par with the older RTX 4060. Read more ›

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Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:06 EDT

An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures. Read more ›

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Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/01/2025 06:48 EDT

Synology's new SNV5400 drive family has hit the shelves, and comes with a spit-take inducing price tag of $630 for 1.6 TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. The family goes as low as $175 for 400GB, representing more than 2x the industry standard for a matching NAS drive. Read more ›

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OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 06:15 EDT

OneXSugar is a crazy Android handheld that's somehow also a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS at the same time. Read more ›

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Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 06:00 EDT

Micron detailed its $200 billion U.S. investment plan to build six DRAM fabs and HBM assembly facilities in the U.S. over the next 20 years. Read more ›

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Live: the latest news from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:56 EDT

What's going on in the world of computing Read more ›

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Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:46 EDT

A shareholder asked Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa why there weren't enough Switch 2 consoles to go around. Read more ›

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Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:29 EDT

Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help. Read more ›

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Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 17:41 EDT

Apple is considering using models from OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri and improve its AI competitiveness, according to a Bloomberg report. Read more ›

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RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 16:45 EDT

Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up Read more ›

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Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 14:20 EDT

AMD AI Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system. Read more ›

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New 3D printing tech fuses hard and soft structures in a single print — novel resin can create both with different light sources

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 12:28 EDT

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3D printing technique that lets you print hard and soft materials with the same resin. Read more ›

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Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 12:12 EDT

The developers behind Fedora have withdrawn their proposal to drop 32-bit support from the OS. Fedora 44 will maintain 32-bit support, allowing Steam to keep functioning on the Linux distribution. Read more ›

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