Today’s best Cooler Master SK622 deals What makes for the best wireless keyboard depends a lot on what you do with it and how often you travel. But Cooler Master makes a solid effort with the Cooler Master SK622, a slim and solid-feeling 60% mechanical clacker that makes major strides over its predecessor, the SK621,…
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The infotainment system inside a Tesla Model S is now as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to company chief executive, Elon Musk, speaking at a public launch of the Model S Plaid. The car is quicker, more expensive, and has a longer range than previous Model S, but what’s really important is that in-car…
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Adafruit have announced a new RP2040 based board, and this one is a little different to those that have come before it. The Trinkey QT2040 is based upon the QT Py RP2040 but it has no GPIO pins, instead it has a Stemma QT / Qwiic connector and a dedicated USB A port that is…
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Today’s best Fractal Design Ion Gold 850W deals Although the Fractal Design Ion Gold 850W uses a modern platform provided by High Power, its overall performance cannot go toe-to-toe with most offerings in this category. Nonetheless, this product’s real strength is value, offering a high performance per price ratio. The best PSUs, like the new…
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This week Sharp unveiled the 8M-B32C1, the industry’s first professional 8K monitor with a 1,000-nits peak luminance aimed at professionals. The Sharp 8M-B32C1 is an LCD that relies on a high-end 31.5-inch (presumably IPS/IGZO) panel featuring a 7680 × 4360 resolution, a 800 nits typical brightness (a 1000 nits peak brightness in HDR mode), a 1300:1 contrast ratio,…
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AMD’s announcement of its new 3D V-Cache chip stacking technology for Ryzen processors was easily the most surprising announcement for PC enthusiasts at Computex 2021, and today the company has shared a few more details via its YouTube program The Bring Up, which you can see embedded below. The high-level 3D V-Cache overview is that…
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Chia is heading to the cloud. Backblaze today announced that Chia Coin farmers can upload their plots to its B2 cloud storage platform for $5 per TB per month. A quick primer on Chia: It’s supposed to be more environmentally friendly than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies because it uses a less energy-intensive Proof of…
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According to Bloomberg’s sources, Intel has offered $2 billion for startup chip designer SiFive, though neither company has officially acknowledged the offer. SiFive is the leading designer of chips based on the open source RISC-V architecture that has coincidentally attracted much more interest in the wake of Nvidia’s ongoing acquisition of Arm for $40 billion.…
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Nvidia’s new Ti model, the RTX 3070 Ti, is the latest Ampere GPU to try to bridge the gap between power and affordability. With an MSRP of $599, it’s supposed to be a step closer to the RTX 3080 in terms of power without costing as much, although some partner cards are charging customers as…
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Icy Dock this week announced a new M.2 enclosure that can house up to 12 M.2 SSDs and is the size of a single, 5.25-inch optical drive bay. You can install the ToughArmor MB872MP-B directly into your best PC case — if you still have a case that even supports DVD drives. The ToughArmor MB872MP-B…
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