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Best Mining GPUs Benchmarked and Ranked

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) What’s the best mining GPU, and is it worth getting into the whole cryptocurrency craze? Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are making headlines again; prices and mining profitability are way up compared to the last couple of years. Everyone who didn’t start mining last time is kicking themselves for their… Read more

PowerColor Reveals VRAM Configurations for RX 6700 and 6700XT

Home News (Image credit: AMD) PowerColor has filed a list of model names for the yet unannounced RX 6700 and RX 6700 with the Eurasian Economic Union. Interestingly, the listing shows potential memory configurations for both GPUs: The RX 6700 XT features 12GB of VRAM and 6GB for the RX 6700. This information comes just… Read more

Thanks to Miners and Scalpers, eBay Pricing for Ampere, RDNA2 GPUs Continues to Rise

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Finding the best graphics card at anything approaching reasonable pricing has become increasingly difficult. Just about everything we’ve tested in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is sold out unless you go to eBay, but current eBay prices will take your breath away. If you thought things were bad before, they’re… Read more

Intel Talks Resizable BAR for 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs, Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Intel) As usual, Intel’s poised for a busy year. The company has already launched its new 11th Generation Tiger Lake H35 mobile chips, and 11th Gen Rocket Lake should blast into the market this year to take on the likes of AMD Ryzen 5000. This week during The Tom’s Hardware Show,… Read more

Biden to Address Chip Shortages, Semiconductor Supply Chains

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Update: Clarified specifics pertaining to the industry letter. If you’re still disappointed at not being able to buy a Ryzen 5000 series chip yet, you’ve apparently got some friends in high places. President Biden is just as annoyed as you, according to a new statement from White House Press Secretary… Read more

Biden to Address Chip Shortage After Lobbying From Intel, AMD

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) If you’re still disappointed at not being able to buy a Ryzen 5000 series chip yet, you’ve apparently got some friends in high places. President Biden is just as annoyed as you, according to a new statement from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and is working to bring the… Read more

Ryzen 7 5700G Desktop APU Lands on eBay, Flaunts Impressive Benchmarks

Home News (Image credit: Weixin) Back at the start of last month, the first traces of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G showed up through entries in the USB-IF, and just a couple of days later, its specifications surfaced. But what we didn’t know yet was what performance is set to be like — but that… Read more

AMD Updates StoreMi: Adds Support for Threadripper Pro, SSD Partitions

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Last year AMD significantly overhauled its StoreMi software that’s designed to speed up storage performance on its consumer platforms. This week the company continued to polish off its StoreMi suite by enabling support for its ultra-high-end Threadripper Pro workstations, as well as the ability to use SSD partitions for caching. … Read more

Intel Xe Gaming GPU Shown Running New 3DMark Test

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s Chief Architect, Raja Koduri, Tweeted out an image showcasing Xe HPG running an unreleased version of 3DMark with a new mesh shader feature test, demonstrating that the Xe HPG architecture is now at a fully functional state. It’s cool to see Xe HPG, which is designed to compete directly… Read more

Gigabyte M27Q 27-inch 170 Hz Monitor Review: Fast Response, Huge Color

Our Verdict The Gigabyte M27Q is a very capable and speedy gaming monitor with few flaws. Though it has a huge color gamut, red is a little under-saturated, and it doesn’t offer extra contrast in HDR mode. But you do get superb gaming performance with 170 Hz and super-low input lag. As a value choice,… Read more

MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio Review

Introduction Today, we bring you our first review of a custom design Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card in the MSI RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio. When AMD originally announced the RX 6000 series “Big Navi,” with the RX 6900 XT release set for its own exclusive date, the company hadn’t made up its… Read more

Chrome Will Soon No Longer Function on 15+ Year Old Processors

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) If you’re still on a PC that predates 2005, you might be in some trouble. Google is preparing to change its Chrome browser’s minimum CPU requirements to include the SSE3 instruction set in the near future. That means processors older than the Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon 64… Read more

This $1.50 Bracket Fixes All Your ‘Sticky’ AMD Ryzen Woes

Home News (Image credit: overclock3d.net) GELID has created a new CPU protection bracket for AMD Ryzen processors that safely insures your processor won’t get yanked out of its socket when disconnecting your CPU cooler, and it costs just $1.50. The new bracket addresses a long-held problem with some AMD CPUs: Sometimes the bond of the… Read more

Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G Zen 3 Desktop APU Allegedly Hits 4.75 GHz On All Cores

Home News Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G (Image credit: Chiphell) There is no concrete date for AMD’s Zen 3 APU announcement, but the latest sighting of the Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G indicates that the official launch may not be too far off. Unfortunately, the first sighting of the desktop PC APU comes as a Pro model,… Read more

Lian Li Spinoff Ssupd’s Meshlicious Is a Versatile, Compact ITX Case

Home Features (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) In recent years, several representatives from PC case companies have told us that mini-ITX cases are a niche, without enough interest to be worth heavily investing in. Yet oddly, over that same period, more and more companies seem to be churning out these compact small form-factor (SFF) chassis. The… Read more