For some people, no PC tower is too big, especially if you want all of the airflow and every bell and whistle you can get. But there are other schools of thought, like those from people who like small form factor desktops or want to fit something with the power of the best gaming PCs…
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AOC raised some eyebrows this year when it announced it’s growing its presence in the gaming space beyond monitors and into smaller peripherals, namely mice, RGB mouse pads, headsets and keyboards. The AOC Agon AGK700, as well as the lower priced AOC Agon GK500, enter a crowded market of clackers claiming to be the best…
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JEDEC has published a new revision of the LPDDR5 standard (JESD209-5B) that covers some performance and power improvements to the original specification as well as LPDDR5X, an extension to LPDDR5 that increases a maximum data transfer rate to 8533 MT/s. LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X will co-exist and complement each other on the market. LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X are pin-to-pin…
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Usually, we use PCs to emulate other systems, be it retro computers or Android apps. Using something else to emulate a PC is a little different, especially when it’s the original IBM PC, and it’s running on a tiny microcontroller board like this one from Fabrizio Di Vittorio and spotted by Hackaday. It does make…
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According to the latest report from Taiwanese analyst firm, TrendForce, the prices of enterprise-grade solid-state drives (SSDs) are likely to experience a price hike in Q321. As the report suggests, we could experience as much as a 15% increase in pricing for those SSDs. Server shipments are expected to start a massive growth with the…
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Today’s best Thermaltake Toughpower TF1 Thermaltake 1550W deals Supplying an electrifying 1550W of power, the Thermaltake Toughpower TF1 1,550W is clearly not for the average user but is instead aimed at high enthusiast users who plan to overclock their systems to the limit. This is an expensive piece of hardware at $499, but still, its…
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Sapphire is primarily known for its AMD Radeon graphics cards, but it looks like the company has nothing against some diversification. Earlier we reported about Sapphire’s Nitro LTC cooling system for AMD AM4 processors, but it looks like the manufacturer did not stop there and also quietly launched its Nitro M01 PC chassis. Designed to compete with…
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Gone are the days when add-in-board (AIBs) makers would introduce Mini-ITX graphics cards based on top-of-the-range GPUs. Today, virtually all premium graphics AIBs are large and can barely fit into many typical desktops. To address such systems, Palit’s partner in Japan this week introduced a GeForce RTX 3070 LHR graphics card that is shorter than…
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Following the announcement of AMD’s record financial results for Q2 2021, the company’s chief executive officer Lisa Su gave a brief glimpse of the company’s short-term roadmap. AMD intends to introduce products based on its next-generation Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures in 2022. For 2021, the company seems to be planning a refresh of the Ryzen…
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Western Digital’s WD Black SN750 is a great PCIe 3.0 drive, and it’s only made better by this big discount. At Newegg right now, you can pick one up for $119.99 — a $60 discount, thanks to a limited time discount code. This drive doesn’t just give you decent read/write speeds. It also gives you…
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