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Redditor snaps up early RX 9070 XT GPU for $950 — delivery date slated for March 10

(Image credit: Reddit) A Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT Gaming OC listing accidentally went live on Amazon, and a Reddit user had just enough time to place an order with a reported March 10 delivery date. The shared invoice is quoted at CAD 1,365, which translates to almost $950 before taxes. The Redditor paid what… Read more

Flaunt your style with this $65,000 Nvidia H100 purse

GPU Purses made news a few months after it converted a $20 Nvidia GeForce GT 730 GPU into a thousand-dollar plastic handbag that looked like it came from Temu. It’s now back with a more premium offering, putting an Nvidia H100 AI GPU (or at least pieces of it) on the same plastic casing, calling… Read more

Sandisk’s upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSD fights throttling with 7W power

(Image credit: SanDisk) Sandisk has announced a new SSD set to max out PCIe 5.0 speeds at 7W power draw, comparable to the max power draw of many modern Gen4 drives. The company, fresh off a rebrand and now the SSD/flash storage wing of Western Digital, will launch this flagship drive as part of its… Read more

RX 9070 XT Red Devil packaging recommends a 900W power supply — AMD’s Frank Azor confirms custom cards with lower wattage requirements

(Image credit: X/Tomasz Gawroński) Packaging for one of AMD’s custom Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards has been uncovered, showing the alleged power supply requirements for the RDNA 4 GPU, which will rival the best graphics cards. Tomasz Gawronski posted an image of what appears to be the box of PowerColor’s Radeon RX 9070 XT… Read more

Arm’s to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports

(Image credit: Arm) Arm Holdings is set to launch its first in-house designed processor later this year and has already landed orders from several customers, including Meta, according to the Financial Times. This decision places Arm in direct competition with some of its customers that develop Arm-based processors for data centers, including Ampere and, to… Read more

Intel Panther Lake-H CPU hits max turbo power of 64W — mobile chips’ leaked specs point to substantial power draw

Hardware leaker Jaykihn has shared what’s believed to be the preliminary power specifications for Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake-H CPUs, which are set to be used later this year in a new slate of laptops and mobile devices, which were previously shown off at CES 2025. The alleged preliminary spec details three variants of chips within… Read more

Elecrow’s Raspberry Pi powered CrowPi 3 educational kit offers plenty of scope for learning

(Image credit: Elecrow) Elecrow, creators of the CrowPi 2 and the CrowView has written to us to detail its new CrowPi 3, which will launch on Kickstarter “soon.” This is quite a complex product, designed to be an innovative open-source learning tool built around the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. The comprehensive hardware consists of… Read more

WD’s new HDMR tech to enable record-breaking 100TB+ drives

(Image credit: Western Digital) Western Digital is set to introduce its first hard drives featuring heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, and around 2030, this technology will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs. At that point, FePt-based granular media will start reaching its limits in terms of areal density. But Western Digital is already working… Read more

Raspberry Pi Dune Weaver table draws images in sand using magnets

If you’re looking to add a luxurious piece of furniture to your house, why not build it yourself? That seems to be what maker and developer Tuan Nguyen has done with this incredible Raspberry Pi-powered sand-drawing table he calls ‘Dune Weaver Pro‘. Using our favorite SBC, this table automatically draws pictures in sand either on… Read more

Nvidia will be ‘late’ with RTX 50 laptop GPUs say supply chain sources

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 mobile GPUs are “late,” and we could face further delays, according to unnamed PC supply chain sources. DigiTimes reports (machine translation) that the top-end laptops for gamers have been pushed back from January to March, and the mid to low-end series from March to April. If you were wondering… Read more

RTX 5070 Ti listings appear on US and EU retailers, some at nearly double the MSRP

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Nearly a week before its official availability, retailers have started putting up listings for Nvidia’s next-generation mid-range GPUs. While the company delayed the release of the RTX 5070, allegedly to coincide with the arrival of AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs, the higher-end RTX 5070 Ti is confirmed… Read more

New EU packaging regulations spark misplaced fear of CPUs ditching stock coolers

Old AMD Ryzen Threadripper packaging. (Image credit: AMD) Two days ago, on the PCMR subreddit, Reddit user redmera highlighted an upcoming change in EU regulations that would ban “ridiculous CPU packaging” like what used to be found on Intel’s Core i9 and AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, among others. Subsequently, NikTekOfficial on Twitter declared, based on… Read more

Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030

Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026. HAMR will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs by 2030. Western Digital’s first HAMR-based HDDs will be introduced sometime in 2026, with a 36TB capacity for… Read more

An ‘unfortunate incident’ hits latest Ubuntu 24.04 point release

According to Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta, we’ll have to wait a little longer for the next update to the current Ubuntu 24.04 release. It seems that the latest images are missing something beneficial to more recent hardware. Originally scheduled for a February 13 release, Ubuntu 24.04.2 is a point release, a refreshed release that includes all… Read more

Anti-Lag 2 removed from Spider-Man 2 PC port due to game crashes on Radeon GPUs

AMD’s original Anti-Lag technology was infamous for causing problems in the video games it “supported,” and AMD’s second generation Anti-Lag 2 appears to be following in its predecessor’s footsteps. The developers behind the Spider-Man 2 PC port revealed in their latest patch notes for the game, that the Anti-Lag 2 SDK has been removed from… Read more