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News•Mar 1, 2026
Gigabyte's Huge 55-Inch 4K 120Hz Gaming Monitor Is Now Half Price — Grab This Android-Powered Display with HDMI 2.1 for...
Gigabyte’s S55U is a 55‑inch 4K gaming monitor now on sale for $499, roughly half its original price. The VA panel delivers 120 Hz refresh, 2 ms response, and a full‑array local dimming system with 132 zones, supporting Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and HLG. It includes HDMI 2.1 with eARC, two HDMI 2.0 ports, USB, Ethernet, and built‑in Android TV for streaming without a PC. Additional features include Dolby Atmos‑certified speakers, 96% DCI‑P3 coverage, and gaming overlays.
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News•Mar 1, 2026
Orico BookDrive P10Plus (512GB) Review: Magnetic Back and 100W Passthrough Charging
Orico’s BookDrive P10Plus is a 512 GB external SSD that adds a magnetic MagSafe‑compatible back and a 100 W Power‑Delivery passthrough port, letting users charge a phone or laptop while transferring data. In synthetic benchmarks it ranks near the middle of 10 Gbps...
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News•Mar 1, 2026
AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ Debuted This Week in 1999 with On-Die L2 Cache to Savage the Intel Pentium II — It...
AMD introduced the K6‑III ‘Sharptooth’ in February 1999, featuring on‑die 256 KB L2 cache that propelled it past Intel’s Pentium II 450 MHz in performance. The processor launched at 400 MHz and 450 MHz on the Super Socket 7 platform, extending the life of the open‑slot architecture....
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News•Feb 28, 2026
Grab a Mobile Workstation with a Jaw-Dropping $1,200 Discount and 96GB of DDR5 Memory — Lenovo's Robust & Powerful ThinkPad...
Lenovo is offering its ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 AMD workstation laptop for $1,539, roughly a 50 % discount off the standard price. The machine packs a high‑end AMD processor, 96 GB of DDR5‑5600 RAM and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, targeting power users who...
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News•Feb 28, 2026
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Intel Core I9-14900K Faceoff — Intel’s Raptor Lake Platform Continues to Be Relevant in 2026
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9850X3D, built on Zen 5 X3D, outperforms Intel’s Core i9‑14900K in gaming, delivering up to 24% higher frame rates and superior power efficiency. Intel’s 14900K, with its 24‑core hybrid design, retains a clear advantage in multi‑threaded productivity workloads, beating the...
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News•Feb 27, 2026
Grab Razer’s Officially Licensed Pokémon-Themed Gaming Peripherals — Keyboards, Mice, and Headsets Celebrate 30 Years of the Franchise
Razer has unveiled an officially licensed Pokémon‑themed line of gaming peripherals to celebrate the franchise’s 30th anniversary. The collection includes the BlackWidow V4 X keyboard, Cobra mouse and Kraken V4 X headset in a yellow‑black starter‑Pokémon scheme, priced between $59.99...
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News•Feb 27, 2026
Secretlab Has Three Pokémon-Themed Titan Evo Chairs in Honor of Game's 30th Anniversary — Special Edition Seats Available in Pikachu,...
Secretlab has launched a limited‑edition line of its Titan Evo gaming chairs themed after Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, offering Pikachu, Gengar and Eevee designs. Each chair is priced at $684 and comes in Regular and XL sizes, featuring Softweave Plus breathable...
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News•Feb 27, 2026
Behind the Scenes of Our Massive CPU Retest for Bench — Testing at 1080p, Choosing New Apps, and Gathering Data...
Tom’s Hardware is undertaking a comprehensive CPU retest for its Bench suite, covering every processor it can access from early AMD Excavator and Intel 7th‑gen up through current Zen 5 and Arrow Lake chips. The project uses frozen, identical OS images, a...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
Microsoft Clarifies Windows 11 Printer Driver Policy — Support for Legacy Printers Is Not Ending
Microsoft clarified that Windows 11 will not drop support for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers, countering earlier reports. Existing drivers remain functional and available via Windows Update, while new driver submissions are blocked by default and require case‑by‑case approval starting...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
China to Increase Leading-Edge Chip Output by 5x in Two Years, Report Claims — Aims to Lift 7nm and 5nm...
China plans to quintuple its leading‑edge chip output within two years, raising 7 nm and 5 nm wafer starts from under 20,000 to about 100,000 per month. The long‑term goal is to reach 500,000 advanced‑node wafers monthly by 2030. SMIC, the only...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
Trump Administration to Use Pentagon AI to Set Mineral Reference Prices — Gallium and Germanium Among First Four Targets
The Trump administration will deploy DARPA’s Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) AI system to establish reference prices for critical minerals, starting with germanium, gallium, antimony and tungsten. The tool calculates fair values by stripping out alleged Chinese market...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
Portable USB DVD Writer with 2.5-inch SATA and SD Card Dock Slashed by 30% to $21 — Optical Drive Can...
Amazon has slashed the price of Alronly’s portable USB‑C/USB 3.0 CD‑DVD writer by 30%, dropping it from $29.99 to $20.98. The device reads and writes CDs at up to 24× and DVDs at up to 8×, while also offering a 2.5‑inch...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
German Data Center Giant Hikes Prices up to 37% Starting April 1 — Hetzner Cites Rising Hardware Costs for Price...
German data‑center operator Hetzner announced price increases of up to 37 % on its cloud, dedicated‑server, storage and load‑balancer offerings effective 1 April 2026. The hikes affect both new orders and existing subscriptions across its European, U.S. and Singapore sites, with cloud instances...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
DDR5 RAM Gets Another Fleeting Discount, Lowest Price in Months — Corsair's 32GB Vengeance Kit Is $329 at Woot
Woot is offering Corsair’s 32 GB Vengeance DDR5‑6000 kit for $329.99, the lowest price in months. The discount follows a recent dip from $344 in January but remains far above the $92.99 price seen in early 2025. The price pressure stems...
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Deals•Feb 19, 2026
Cloud Startup Secures $300M Loan Using AMD AI Chips as Collateral
A cloud startup has secured a $300 million loan, using AMD's AI chips as collateral for a new datacenter in Ohio. The loan will fund the deployment of AMD's AI hardware in the startup's cloud services, highlighting the growing use...
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