Today’s best Acer Predator XB273U NVbmiiprzx deals The most prolific computer display category is easily 27-inch 1440p. There are literally hundreds of examples with at least 144 Hz refresh rates and Adaptive-Sync with prices covering a wide range. You can find a barebones model for under $400. But extra features, like a faster refresh rate,…
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Graphics cards are one of the most sought-after PC components in today’s market. The launches of AMD, Nvidia, and Intel’s recent GPU efforts have shown that the market is very big, and today we found out just how it is. According to the most recent Jon Peddie Research data, the GPU market has experienced substantial…
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Forget back-to-school season. Intel is celebrating PC gamers during its first ever Intel Gamer Days 2021. The ten-day celebration includes limited-time savings on all things related to gaming. As part of the event, retailers are taking up to $500 off gaming PCs and laptops, and up to $60 off the latest 11th Gen Intel Core…
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Porkchop and Hamhock are a couple of guinea pigs with one of the best Raspberry Pi-based monitoring systems an owner can make. Developed by Christian Hollinger, this project is designed to provide remote observation features without the need for an inaccessible third-party server that may or may not be storing private data. While platforms exist…
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AMD hasn’t announced its Zen 3-based Ryzen Threadripper 5000-series processors codenamed Chagall, but apparently, at least a few of them are in the wild. Two entries in the [email protected] database confirm AMD is prepping the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX and the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5945WX CPUs. As the model numbers suggest, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro…
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Samsung is the latest SSD vendor to be caught with its hand in the cookie jar. A Chinese YouTuber is claiming Samsung has swapped components on its 970 Evo Plus SSD, one of the best SSDs on the market right now. It’s not that component swapping wasn’t a thing prior to the pandemic. With the…
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AMD is expected to release its EPYC 7003-series processors with 3D V-Cache later this year, but a major retailer listed one of the CPUs on its website and even published its pricing on Thursday. Of course, like all server processors, the flagship 64-core EPYC 7773X is not meant to be cheap, but, naturally, additional cache comes at…
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3DMark has just added a new DX12 Ultimate feature to its suite of tests called Sampler Feedback. This is the 4th and final DirectX 12 Ultimate feature to be added to 3DMark’s suite of tests along with DirectX Ray Tracing, Mesh Shading, and Variable Rate Shading. This new sampler feedback test allows you to visualize…
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It’s been nearly a year since Nvidia launched its Ampere GPUs with the GeForce RTX 3080, and things have not gone to plan. Normally, we expect new GPUs to sell out quickly for the first couple of months, then supply catches up to demand and you start to see cards regularly in stock and waiting…
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Bitmain, a leading developer of application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for cryptocurrency mining and the maker of Antminer machines, has confirmed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) had notified its customers about planned price increases for chip production. “On the morning of [August] 25, TSMC notified all customers that all semiconductor processes will increase their prices…
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