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Zephyrus Duo 15 Modified to Run RTX 3080 at a Higher TGP With VBIOS Swap

Home News (Image credit: Asus) A Chinese tweaker has almost managed to break records on the notebook 3DMark scoreboard by modifying an RTX 3080 equipped ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 to run at 155W instead of the GPU’s default TDP of 130W. The mod was made by transferring the VBIOS from another RTX 3080 equipped laptop,… Read more

Nvidia Rewarms RTX 2060, GTX 1050 Ti Amidst GPU Shortage

Home News GeForce RTX 2060 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) When you can’t supply enough of the latest and greatest graphics cards to the market, it’s time to heat up some of the old-time bestsellers. Nvidia has confirmed to PCWorld that the company is effectively resupplying older Turing and Pascal GPUs to its board partners to… Read more

Modder Adds Ray Tracing to Super Mario 64

Home News (Image credit: Darío) What do you do if you have an RTX 3090 but your favorite games are over 20 years old? Well, if you’re like modder Darío Samo, you add ray tracing to them. That’s what they announced they would be doing with Super Mario 64 late last year, and their latest… Read more

Intel’s Phantom Canyon NUCs: TDPs Hit 150W with Tiger Lake and GeForce

Home News (Image credit: FanlessTech) While Intel’s NUCs come pre-built and ready to work out-of-box, some of the higher-end NUCs can get an aftermarket treatment from fanless chassis makers. Due to higher TDPs, that will apparently not be the case with the latest NUC 11 systems (codenamed Phantom Canyon). The new NUCs come powered by Intel’s… Read more

Ask Intel Your Questions Today During the Tom’s Hardware Livestream

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel kicked off 2021 with a fresh lineup of mobile processors with a unique twist. The 11th Gen Tiger Lake H35-series processors aren’t just for any ol’ laptop. They target what Intel calls “ultraportable gaming laptops.” And at 3 p.m. ET today on The Tom’s Hardware Show, we’re sitting down… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX A6000: 48GB of Memory Powers Twice The Performance

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) When Nvidia launched its RTX A6000 48GB professional graphics card last October, the company said that it would offer at least twice the performance of the company’s previous-gen Quadro cards. These types of claims are not unusual, but how fast is the $4,650 RTX A6000 really in real-world benchmarks? (Interestingly, that’s only… 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

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

AMD’s answer to DLSS could be coming in March

João Silva 3 hours ago Featured Announcement, Graphics Back when AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000 series, the company mentioned that it would introduce an alternative to Nvidia DLSS for its products. Named Super Resolution, this AI upscaling technology is apparently coming out in March, alongside an update to Radeon Boost. Not much is known… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3060 reportedly launching on February 25th

Matthew Wilson 20 hours ago Featured Tech News, Graphics We’ve been expecting Nvidia to launch the non-Ti variation of the RTX 3060 soon but now we seem to have a proper launch date. According to reports this week, the RTX 3060 will launch in just a couple of weeks. According to sources cited by wccftech,… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti rumours point to cut down specs

João Silva 1 day ago Featured Tech News, Graphics It seems that Nvidia has changed the specifications of the RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. As per a new report, both the GPU and the memory configuration have been modified, with the latter being the most affected. Earlier reports and listings suggested that the RTX 3080 Ti… Read more

This laptop has seven times the average number of screens

A company called Expanscape has created the most Inspector Gadget-like device that I’ve ever seen. It’s a laptop prototype called the Aurora 7 (a working title), and attached to its humongous black box of a chassis are six extra displays that extend out in every direction away from the main screen, each showing its own… Read more

Bitcoin Flies To Over $44k After Tesla Purchases $1.5 Billion in BTC

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has been rather vocal about his enthusiasm for cryptocurrency lately, and now, the automaker Tesla has purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, according to a new SEC filing. The automaker also stated that it would start accepting Bitcoin payments in the near future, meaning you’ll be… Read more

Nvidia RTX 30-Series GPU Availability to Worsen in Q1: Report

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) When Nvidia launched its RTX 3000 GPUs, the availability of the cards was less than great, with demand far outstripping supply, leading to a shortage. Now a new report suggests the problem is about to get worse. European hardware retailer Alternate, which operates in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, has… Read more