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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware · 07/18/2026 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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Streacom's new $1,300 ultra high-end passively cooled PC case cools up to 600W of power

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/23/2023 07:45 EDT

Streacom has announced that its new monster passively-cooled PC chassis is almost ready for purchase. Shipments of the new case will ship as soon as May 2024. Read more ›

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Surging on Smartphones, Folding Screen Adoption on Laptops Will Take Years to Go Mainstream

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2023 07:38 EDT

The foldable laptop market could take many years to go mainstream, if it ever does. Read more ›

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How to Fix Ghosting in 3D Prints

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2023 07:21 EDT

Ghosting in 3D prints can spoil a design that would have turned out perfectly. Thankfully, just like any other 3D printing problem, you can easily fix it by following the strategies below. Read more ›

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Expert likens U.S.–China sanctions to 'a pillow fight, not a chip war' — contends regulations are merely a 'licensing regime' with holes chipmakers are 'driving cars through'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2023 07:14 EDT

Despite curbs, China still gets what it wants to boost its AI and HPC sectors, says expert. Read more ›

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You've run out of time — What last-minute gifts are available for the techie in your life?

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2023 06:51 EDT

From gift cards to streaming services, these digital gifts can purchased and delivered at any time, even Christmas Day. Read more ›

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Exclusive: AMD to begin disclosing Ryzen Zen 4c clock speeds and list the missing core counts on official spec pages — much-needed change will bring the company in line with standard industry practices

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 14:15 EDT

AMD says it will soon divulge its Zen 4c clock speeds and list the number of cores more prominently in its official spec sheets and marketing materials. Read more ›

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China's GPU sales fell 8 percent from October to November due to shortages but are still up 11 percent YoY

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 13:21 EDT

Although November's GPU sales in China were 11% higher compared to November 2022, sales are down since last October. Read more ›

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Acer's Predator Helios 16 gaming laptop with RTX 4070 and 240Hz QHD screen is on sale for just $1,299

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 12:37 EDT

More gaming laptop goodness as the Acer Predator Helios 16 is on sale for $1,299 - a great price for a laptop with components of this caliber. Read more ›

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Good Raspberry Pi Pico boards are hard to 'crumb' by, but you will soon knead" a Raspberry Breadstick

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 12:26 EDT

Filling the full length of the longest breadboard, the Raspberry Breadstick is a clever means to tidy up the breadboard and make projects easier to work on Read more ›

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ASRock launches Meteor Lake NUCs supporting up to a Core Ultra 7 155H and 96GB of RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 12:15 EDT

One of the first Meteor Lake NUCs is already arriving in the form of ASRocks Industrial's NUC Ultra 100. Read more ›

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ASRock enables Windows 11 native RGB controls on Intel and AMD motherboards — the beta feature is designed to eliminate confusing tangle of proprietary RGB software

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 12:09 EDT

ASRock released a BETA firmware for many of its Intel and AMD motherboards which works with Microsoft Dynamic Lighting Available on Windows 11 23H2. Read more ›

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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 11:21 EDT

With too many outdated PCs afloat, Windows 10 EOL in late 2025 could generate massive amount of e-waste. Read more ›

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U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material — controllable variation breaks temperature records

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 11:06 EDT

Researchers with the Argonne National Lab and the University of Washington report strain-switchable, field-induced superconductivity in a synthetic material. Doped EuFe2As2 (a sandwich of Europium and Iron Arsenide layers with a sprinkle of Cobalt) provides a look into the moment superconductivity is switched on. Read more ›

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Intel's comeback appears on track — CEO Gelsinger says 18A process node performance is 'a little bit ahead' of TSMC's N2, but Intel's process arrives a year earlier than TSMCs

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 10:09 EDT

The chief executive of Intel believes the company's 18A process node is years ahead of TSMC's N2 due to backside power delivery. Read more ›

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CableMod issues safety recall of 16-pin power adapters for Nvidia GPUs due to overheating and melting — advises to disconnect them immediately

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2023 09:28 EDT

Due to an influx of melting complaints with its 12VHPWR adapters, CableMod announced a voluntary safety recall for all its 90-degree and 180-degree adapters both v1 and v1.1. Read more ›

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Raspberry Pi mailbox brings in the mail like the old days

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 08:30 EDT

Guy Dupont is using a Raspberry Pi to block push notifications until he downloads them by inserting his phone into a toy mailbox. Read more ›

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Testing GPUs with AMD FSR3 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — 16 graphics cards and hundreds of benchmarks

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 08:17 EDT

AMD FSR3 with frame generation finally feels ready to use in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. We've run benchmarks with FSR and DLSS on a collection of 16 modern GPUs, including a few tests with the 'Unobtanium' preset on the highest-end cards. The game isn't great, but the upscaling and frame generation worked well in our experience. Read more ›

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Silverstone IceMyst 360 and 240mm AIO Review: Unique VRM and RAM fans, chart-topping noise-normalized performance

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 08:00 EDT

It’s not often we review a cooler with genuine innovation. But the Silverstone IceMyst AIOs’ unique fans provide cooling where competitors don’t. Read more ›

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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2023 07:32 EDT

As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that Read more ›

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U.S. mulls imposing tariffs on legacy chips as Chinese companies prepare to flood the market with the simple but vital chips, undercutting Western rivals to deprive them of R&D funding

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2023 07:13 EDT

U.S. Commerce Department set to survey companies in other sectors to find out how they procure simplistic, but vital chips. Read more ›

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