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Okay, alright, fair enoughit's not really Black Friday yet. That'll be this upcoming Friday the 29th, in its classical place after Thanksgiving on Thursday. Just about every parts vendor on the web is already offering "Black Friday" component deals, though, so don't blame uswe're just participating.
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It's been rumored that Intel will unveil its Arc Battlemage GPUs in December, beating both AMD and NVIDIA to the punch with a next-generation graphics card lineup. Adding credence to the rumor is a listing on Amazon that apparently went live before it was supposed to. Amazon was somewhat quick to pull the listing, but...
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: $479 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D pairs Zen 5 with 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache to boost gaming performance, increase clocks, and enable more robust overclocking. capabilities. Great Gaming Performance Power Efficient Easy To Cool No Sacrifice General Computing Only 8 Cores Price Premium Anyone that has been paying...
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At some point, we'll have to scale back our coverage of a high-tech game of leapfrog involving two notable hardware teamsASUS paired with G.Skill, and MSI teamed with Kingston. Both sets have joined forces with professional overclockers to claim (and reclaim) DDR5 speed records, with the new speed to beat set...
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It's often said in sports that records are meant to be broken, and sometimes it can take years or even decades for it to happen. In the sport of professional overclocking, however, no such long waits are required, at least with regards to DDR5 memory frequencies. To wit, G.Skill and ASUS just snatched the...
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There have been several developments in the DDR5 memory space over the past week and slightly beyond, such as G.Skill unveiling its sleek and fast Trident Z5 CK DDR5-9600 memory for Arrow Lake, and both G.Skill and Kingston jockeying for the fastest overclocked DDR5 frequency. If that's not enough to get...
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How quickly things can change, eh? When DDR5 first came onto the scene, the speed-to-price ratio was underwhelming, to say the least. It didn't take long for pricing to settle way down, but speeds didn't seem to ramp all that quickly afterward. Now with the introduction of CU-DIMMs, we're seeing memory makers hit new...
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Graphics cards have taken on an incredibly important role in the world, with AI leading the front of human technological progress. Gaming has also blossomed into a mammoth industry, leading to demand for gaming GPUs to skyrocket during the last several releases. Nothing is as exciting as the prospect of a new...
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It won't surprise anyone to hear that Hot Hardware is staffed by PC gaming stalwarts who (mostly) balk at the idea of playing games on consoles. After all, you have a limited game selection, few choices in terms of input devices, and you're restricted to whatever quality-versus-performance compromise the developer...
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There has been a lot of attention pointed towards NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series based on Blackwell, and in particular the eventual GeForce RTX 5090. Let's not forget, however, AMD also has skin in the game and will be launching its RDNA 4 cards at some point. There's evidence to suggest that a...
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If you are a fan of Noctuaand a lot of people arethen you most likely have an affection for the brown color scheme. We'd bet that you like the top-in-class performance characteristics even more, and if so, you now have more reason to rejoice. Noctua is doing a collaboration with Seasonic for a new...
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Hype for Intel's second-generation graphics parts is at an all-time high after the release of Intel's Core Ultra 200V processors, codenamed Lunar Lake. Those SoCs include graphics parts based on the same technology that will eventually show up in "Battlemage", the company's next Arc GPUs, and in case you...
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If you're into overclocking at all, you have probably heard of Skatterbencher. He's a veteran overclocker who has held multiple historical world records, but is perhaps best known for his YouTube videos giving explicit instructions to help novice overclockers tune their own systems for maximum...
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Look, we know it's tempting if you're a gamer with the requisite $700, but please don't buy a PS5 Pro. It's an awful lot of money for a toy that can only play the games that Sony says you can play. It doesn't even have the excuse of being a really high-quality Blu-Ray player like the PS3 didthere's no disc drive at...
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Well, chalk one up for the reliability of occasional leaker chi11eddog (@g01d3nm4ng0 on Xwitter). Back on August 14th, he posted that AMD would increase the TDP of the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X from 65W to 105W in an AGESA update. Technically, he was wrong; the TDP increase is an optional toggle. However...
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China has had a thriving game industry for a fair while now, but the country hasn't produced many developers that can stand alongside the giants of Japan, Europe, and the US. Well, now there's at least one more: Game Science, developers of new mega-hit action RPG, Black Myth: Wukong. Based around the character of Sun...
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 - Available for $1,099.99 The Galaxy Z Flip 6 is an excellent flip phone, but there's renewed competition now. Compact foldable form factor Solid performance Bright, sharp foldable OLED screen Long update support Sharp, bright display with 120Hz refresh ×Fast 80W charging and included...
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While gamers anxiously wait for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series to release sometime inn the near future, there is some other minor news afoot. The GeForce RTX 4070 may be old at this point, but it may still get some changesa new variant of the RTX 4070 from Galax, an NVIDIA partner, has popped up.
Apparently, this...
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In case you still carried any doubts, Intel's second-generation discrete graphics products, codenamed "Battlemage," are very real and absolutely still on the waylikely later this year. As proof, allow us to show you the latest leak: a boot log from a system in the Intel GFX Continuous Integration group that clearly...
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After two years of driver work, Intel's current-generation Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs are competitive in their respective price brackets. The company could really use some new GPU hardware, however, if it wants to make more inroads into the PC gaming space. Fortunately, it looks like those parts are on the way, and...
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While not quite small enough to build a traditional 4x4 NUC, ASRock's new X600TM-ITX motherboard is small enough to build a mini PC, and a bleeding edge one, too. According to ASRock, the X600TM-ITX is the only 'thin mini ITX' form factor motherboard to utilize the AM5 socket, and with it comes...
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The anticipation of any major hardware release is accompanied by the inevitable leaks of its specs and performance. AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series based on Zen 5 is no exception, with early samples making the rounds to fuel the rumor mills.
As spotted by prominent leaker @9550pro on X/Twitter, the upcoming...
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