Building a PC has its advantages, such as cheaper parts costs and a learning experience that’ll stick with you forever. However, when our AI overlords suck the joy out of DIY custom rigs, we need to venture out to find goo…
A French retailer is willing to sell you defective RTX 5090s for half of what they cost new, on the condition that you’ll be able to repair or recycle them. You can either get a random 5090 variant, depending on stock, for…
A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient temperatures despite consuming over 300 wa…
Get your fill of Star Wars-themed tech that can turn your setup from Padawan to Jedi Master this May the Fourth.
Gigabyte’s Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibility, all for a compelling sub-$280 price.
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We’re testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to boost the performance of an RTX 5090 in a few classic Batman Arkham titles that support 32-bit PhysX.
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The Hackinator delids an Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor and prepares it for a die shot using unconventional techniques.
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A Reddit user tried their luck with a $20 4TB external HDD, and, to no surprise, they received a microSD card strapped inside a card reader and hot-glued to the back of the plastic case of an “external hard drive.”
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The Biwin M350 is a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD done right. It has good performance where it matters and good power efficiency, too. But it still has the weaknesses of QLC flash, like poor sustained performance.
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Get an AMD Ryzen 9850X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5, an X870 MSI MAG Tomahawk motherboard, and a 750W PSU combo deal at Newegg
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