It’s been a while since we’ve tackled a high-end build here at Tom’s Hardware. With the unobtanium status on the RTX 3000 and RX 6000 graphics cards, and some CPUs still tough to find in stock at non-inflated prices, we didn’t try to get our hands on fresh hardware just for the sake of a…
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Today’s best Aukey KM-G17 and deals The Aukey KM-G17 is a behemoth of a keyboard with a budget-friendly price that features clicky blue mechanical switches, dedicated macro keys, and more RGB lighting than most of its competitors. While the more expensive competitors on our best gaming keyboards list have better build quality and more features,…
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Flexxon, a Singapore-based security firm, has introduced an SSD with embedded AI-based security capabilities that the company says promises protection against traditional threats like malware and viruses, or physical tampering with the drive. Modern SSD controllers rely on several Arm Cortex R cores and are basically rather high-performance system-on-chips with fairly sophisticated compute capabilities. These very capabilities,…
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Galax (via VideoCardz) has re-released the brand’s GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 Black General graphics cards with Nvidia’s revamped Ampere silicon, which cracks down on Ethereum mining. The new graphics cards with the anti-mining limiter are identical to the previous revisions in every way, starting from the packaging to the graphics card’s aesthetics. According…
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Unit shipments of hard drives in the first quarter of 2021 were down both sequentially and year-over-year as consumer devices continued their migration to SSDs. Still, HDD capacity sold during the quarter set a new record of 288 exabytes as hyperscalers and enterprises upgraded their storage capabilities. Seagate remained the world’s largest maker of hard…
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The new Chia cryptocurrency has already started making waves in the storage industry, as we’ve reported back in April. With Chia trading now live, it looks set to become even more interesting in the coming months. The total netspace for Chia has already eclipsed 2 exabytes, and it’s well on its way to double- and…
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Today’s best Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Pro AX and deals The Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Pro AX positions itself as a mid-range SKU with a modest (for recent motherboard generations) price of $289.99. For that price, you get the most USB ports — thirteen, including USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C port — we’ve seen on any motherboard…
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There are a number of different options available to move files between your desktop and mobile devices. The most common method is to use a USB cable, but this only works if you have access to the correct cable. What if we could send files between devices on the same network using nothing more than…
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Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, including all of the best graphics cards. Whether it’s playing games or doing high-end creative work like 4K video editing, your graphics card typically plays the biggest role in determining performance, and even the best gaming CPUs take a secondary…
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AMD launched its RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000-graphics cards in early November, so it’s about time for the company to use the latest Big Navi GPU for its Radeon Pro graphics cards aimed at CAD/CAM and DCC professionals. Indeed, the first benchmark score of AMD’s yet-to-be-announced Radeon Pro W6800 with 32GB of memory got published recently. …
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