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Samsung 990 Pro SSD cooling tested: efficient, with low temps

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 08:00 EDT

We investigate cooling Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD to see how it differs from other SSDs in its cooling needs. Read more ›

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AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are more expensive, but worth it — costs 'more than 5% but less than 20%' higher than Taiwan-sourced alternative

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 07:50 EDT

AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025. Read more ›

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Someone cooled AMD's $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump still can't match liquid nitrogen, though

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 07:37 EDT

Geekerwan tested an AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU cooled by a BMW M4 radiator and pump. Read more ›

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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 07/24/2025 07:30 EDT

President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before. Read more ›

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Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditions

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 06:00 EDT

Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions. Read more ›

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Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told 'Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 05:30 EDT

A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device. Read more ›

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Hyte rolls back MSRPs on its cases for the first time since tariff announcements — some products return to pre-tariff pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 05:00 EDT

Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price. Read more ›

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Trump announces 'AI Action Plan' for the United States government — policy roadmap seeks to accelerate adoption of AI tools and spur infrastructure buildout in the race for global dominance

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 20:38 EDT

This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy. Read more ›

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GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 14:26 EDT

GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 12:58 EDT

Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute — equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs — within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power. Read more ›

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UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 10:41 EDT

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments. Read more ›

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Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo Review: Color to the Max

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 09:00 EDT

Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo succeeds where others disappoint. Read more ›

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Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:30 EDT

Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power. Read more ›

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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 is the current top 96GB memory kit for AMD CPUs — Trident Z5 Neo RGB C26 2x48GB Review

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:00 EDT

The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market? Read more ›

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Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 07:38 EDT

This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts. Read more ›

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Months after Elon Musk's DOGE crusade to wipe it out, LTO tape storage is bigger than ever — a record 176.5 exabytes shipped in 2024, the fourth consecutive year of growth

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 06:25 EDT

Tape storage shipments have enjoyed their fourth consecutive year of growth, increasing 15.4% according to the most recent data. Read more ›

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China's CXMT reportedly delays mass production of DDR5 chips to late 2025 — state-backed manufacturer could still be disruptive market force

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 05:53 EDT

CXMT has reportedly delayed DDR5 mass production to late 2025 to improve quality and yields, but its growing capabilities and state backing are starting to worry global DRAM rivals despite ongoing tool access challenges. Read more ›

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MetaMask crypto wallet Chrome extension is eating SSD storage at an alarming rate — owner confirms bug 'has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into [users'] solid-state drives'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 05:35 EDT

A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs. Read more ›

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Mystery AMD Radeon GPU cooler spotted on Chinese forums is larger than RX 7900 XTX, with a massive heatsink and 3x 8-pin connectors — possibly the RX 7950 XTX that never was

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 14:25 EDT

A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched “7950 XTX,” the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era. Read more ›

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Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 14:04 EDT

Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has repeatedly floated the idea of producing a laptop in the U.S. that would cost 20% more than competitive offerings. Read more ›

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