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Black Friday could be your last chance for a great SSD deal before price rises kick in

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Earlier this year, SSD prices were falling, but of late, we’ve heard some buzz about this situation being reversed – and here’s another piece of chatter about the cost of solid-state drives potentially heading upwards.Tom’s Hardware brought our attention to a DigiTimes report which claims (add seasoning, as ever) that Phison, a manufacturer of memory…

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Asus Launches ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090: All a 4090 Can Be, For $3200

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When Asus teased its ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card back at Computex, it was clear that the company’s ambitions were to develop no less than the world’s fastest graphics card. The company meticulously described the card’s advanced printed circuit board design, voltage regulating module, and cooling system, but it never revealed two important…

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Intel finally releases its Arc A580 graphics card — and its price might make it the best cheap GPU going

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Intel surprised everyone this week when it released its Arc A580 graphics card, a GPU that was first announced last year but which had otherwise been missing in action ever since.The Intel Arc A580 (which had been rumored in recent weeks thanks to leaked benchmarks) sits in the middle of Intel’s Arc graphics card stack…

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Nvidia’s plans for AI GPUs could upend PC gaming forever

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Nvidia is planning to seriously up the pace at which it releases graphics cards for AI and heavyweight usage, and that could have ramifications for the firm’s GeForce gaming GPUs.We hear from SemiAnalysis (via Tom’s Hardware) that Nvidia has big plans to dominate the AI landscape and fend off rivals by increasing the speed at…

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Bad news, Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU owners: cable melting issues are back

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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 quickly became the source of controversy not long after its launch thanks to instances of melting cables – a problem that you might think is well in the past, but it turns out that isn’t the case.In what will doubtless be a concern for anyone with an RTX 4090 bought in the…

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Now might be the time for that RAM upgrade – to beat rumored price hikes

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DDR4 (and DDR5) RAM for your PC could soon be getting pricier, according to a new forecast, and somewhat sooner than was anticipated.If you’ve been following RAM pricing – and we’ll excuse you, if you haven’t (just this once) – then you’ll have seen that throughout the course of this year, DDR4 system memory pricing…

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Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU postmortem finds nasty cooling flaw – but don’t panic

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A couple of Nvidia graphics cards have reportedly been affected by a flaw in their cooling systems – but these seem to be very rare occurrences.The issue is with the vapor chamber, as flagged up by a Quasarzone forum member, which has an apparent problem with oxidization of the heatsink and holes appearing in the vapor chamber.The…

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Intel Core i9-14900KF is officially the fastest ever CPU with record-breaking overclock – and the best is yet to come

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Intel’s Core i9-14900KF has just been released, and the flagship Raptor Lake Refresh processor has broken the previous world record for overclocking.The Core i9-14900KF – which is the same as the plain 14900K, it just doesn’t have integrated graphics – was ramped up to 9044MHz (or 9.04GHz) by a team of overclockers from Asus (including…

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Intel said 14th-gen desktop CPUs support Thunderbolt 5 – but it turns out that was a mistake

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Intel has corrected itself when it comes to the new Raptor Lake Refresh range of desktop processors, clarifying that these 14th-gen chips won’t support Thunderbolt 5 after all.When Raptor Lake Refresh launched, Intel’s release statement observed that the 14th-gen processors “include support for … upcoming Thunderbolt 5 wired connectivity.”A correction has now been issued –…

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Could Nvidia scrap the RTX 4080 graphics card? New rumor suggests it might

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Nvidia might be mulling scrapping the RTX 4080 graphics card, if a fresh rumor pans out – but clearly this is one we should regard with a large amount of skepticism.For starters, the source of the rumor is IT Home (via Tom’s Hardware), a Chinese tech site with a somewhat patchy record, with the actual…

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