Hardware/

3w ago

Old drive external storage can beat pricey retail SSDs, testing finds

Tom's Hardware tested hard drives, SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs in USB enclosures as retail external storage prices rise.

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

MSI Aegis R2 RTX 5090 deal drops gaming PC to $4,899

MSI cut $1,000 from an Aegis R2 desktop with an RTX 5090, Core i9-14900K, 64GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD.

By Mara Chen-Doyle

3w ago

Alphabet free cash flow turns negative as AI capex hits $44.9 billion

Alphabet posted $5.9 billion in negative free cash flow as AI data center spending outran operating cash, according to i...

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

Creality K2 Combo deal drops the multicolor 3D printer to $499

Creality’s Summer Mega Sale cuts the K2 Combo with its CFS multicolor system by $200, putting the enclosed printer at $4...

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

Xbox outage licensing issue blocked game launches for about 16 hours

Microsoft says a failed licensing dependency disrupted Xbox sign-ins, libraries and launches, including some disc-based...

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

Doom regex project renders the game at 180 seconds per frame

Artem Lytkin’s doom regex project runs the game through text substitutions, needing nearly 14 million replacements for e...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

3w ago

AI companies buying books in bulk for training data, 404 Media reports

404 Media reports AI firms are using intermediaries to buy secondhand books as clean training data, raising questions ov...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

3w ago

DDR4 vs DDR5 gaming tests show 14% hit on Intel LGA 1700 CPUs

Tom's Hardware found DDR4 cut gaming performance by 9% to 14% on Intel LGA 1700 chips, with some games losing more than...

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

Nvidia Taiwan smuggling probe leads to employee detention

Taiwanese prosecutors detained a man Bloomberg identified as an Nvidia employee, citing suspected document fraud in an A...

By Felix Aranda

3w ago

MSI and Colorful RTX 50 prices in China climb above MSRP

Distributor price lists show MSI and Colorful RTX 50 cards in China selling far above MSRP as VRAM costs squeeze GPU mak...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

3w ago

Kimi K3 weights released by Moonshot AI for open-weight inference

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 weights for free, claiming near-frontier benchmark results and lower inference costs than O...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

3w ago

ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2 review shows liquid-cooled HGX B300 server

ServeTheHome reviewed ASRock Rack’s 4U HGX B300 server with eight Blackwell Ultra GPUs, dual Xeon 6 CPUs and front-panel...

By Mara Chen-Doyle