Toms HardwareThe AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops to an all-time low pricing — the fastest CPU for gaming goes on saleYou can find the AMD Ryzen7 9800X3D gaming CPU at both Newegg and Amazon for just $451—its lowest price to date.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediatelyIntel shuts down Clear Linux OS as part of the broad global cost-cutting strategy, but it is set to continue upstreaming Linux innovations to the Linux kernel.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareGTA 5 finally launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE 12 years after its global release — will be age-rated 21+ as part of the new regulatory frameworkGTA 5 was released worldwide in 2013. Now, almost 12 years later, gamers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE can finally enjoy the game legally, as it launches in the region under a new 21+ age rating.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareBoot exploit for software-bricked Nintendo WII U consoles discovered by repairing destroyed and discarded SD cards from factory — team posts 'paid the beak' exploit to GithubThe discarded Nintendo SD cards contained a boot image that Nintendo used for the factory setup of its Wii U consoles.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareU.S. legislators criticize decision to resume Nvidia H20 GPU shipments to China — demand new export rules for AI hardwareLegislators criticize the U.S. government for allowing AMD and Nvidia to sell AI GPUs to China again, but instead of reinstating the ban, they call for new export rules based on what China can build itself.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwarePCB reference books with pages made from actual USB-C powered PCBs are now available at $37 eachAn enthusiast has created some Reference Circuit Books where the ‘pages’ are PCBs.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareSeverance keyboard phase-shifts from sci-fi to sci-fact with launch of a new Kickstarter campaign — MDR Dasher keyboard starts at $599 and is estimated to ship from NovemberAtomic Keyboards is on the verge of launching its MDR Dasher Keyboard on Kickstarter, featuring three distinct configurations.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareTitan Army C34A1R 34-inch WQHD 165 Hz gaming monitor review: Ultra-wide, ultra-valueTitan Army delivers tremendous value with its C34A1R. It’s a curved 34-inch 21:9 VA panel with WQHD 3440x1440 resolution, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It’s also a lot less expensive than you might expect.Jul 19, 2025
Toms HardwareOnly $114 for the 2TB Platinum P41 from SK hynix in this Newegg low-price deal — one of our favorite PCIe Gen 4 drivesA very low-priced 2TB SSD at Newegg sees the Platinum P41 from SK hynix for only $114.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareAMD's Threadripper 9995WX stuns in Cinebench R23 — new Ryzen flagship reportedly 73% faster than its predecessorAMD’s 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX reportedly scores 73% higher than its predecessor in Cinebench R23, though the result raises doubts about its realism.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel slashes Core Ultra 5 225 and Core Ultra 5 225F pricing by up to 21% — get entry-level Arrow Lake for 13% below MSRPThe Core Ultra 5 225 and Core Ultra 5 225F are now selling for over 13% lower than their respective MSRPs.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel Arrow Lake refresh might not have a new NPU after all — latest reports indicate a clock speed bump onlyIntel is set to launch the Arrow Lake-S refresh in the latter part of this year and, clashing with previous rumors, it apparently doesn't even have a new NPU. The company might only be overhauling the clock speeds for its upcoming desktop...Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareSteam comes to RISC-V thanks to emulation — AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Crysis already playableLinux developers have managed to get Steam games running on RISC-V-powered platforms using a refined x86 emulator.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareLarge-scale shipments of Nvidia GB300 servers tipped to start in September — GB200 demand remains 'robust' despite widespread coolant leak reportsThanks to design reuse and a modular approach, Nvidia's GB300 AI servers are set for a smoother rollout, with large-scale shipments expected in September 2025. However, liquid cooling remains a headache.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareAI bubble is worse than the dot-com crash that erased trillions, economist warns — overvaluations could lead to catastrophic consequencesA top economist has warned that the AI bubble could be more over-inflated than the dot-com bubble, suggesting that all of the AI companies are even more overvalued than their techy counterparts from 25 years ago.Jul 18, 2025
Toms Hardware$6 million Bitcoin theft lands cop five and a half years in prison — officer stole 50 Bitcoins from Silk Road 2.0 founder during investigation, inside job unravelled by the man he was trying to put awayA member of the NCA took advantage of their know-how and access to steal 50 Bitcoins from the Silk Road 2.0 founder.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareChinese state-sponsored cyberattacks target Taiwan semiconductor industry — security firm says motivation of three separate campaigns 'most likely espionage'China-linked hackers are targeting Taiwan’s chipmakers and U.S. analysts with spear-phishing, Cobalt Strike, and custom malware. At least 15–20 organizations were hit since March, as Beijing seeks semiconductor self-sufficiency amid U.S....Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareAsus ROG Strix G16 (2025) review: a well-rounded gaming laptopThe ROG Strix G16 makes some fair hardware tradeoffs to reach a more attractive price point than more premium competitors.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareInput latency is the all-too-frequently missing piece of framegen-enhanced gaming performance analysisDiscussions and marketing around gaming performance with frame generation enabled have mostly focused on output frame rates, but that focus leaves out a critical piece of the puzzle: input latency. We dig into this issue, explore how it...Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareDonkey Kong Bananza among Switch 2 games with no DLSS support — reviewers balk at Nintendo's aversion to technologyDonkey Kong Bananza is among the list of Nintendo Switch 2 games that do not have DLSS support, one of the most exciting features in the new handheld.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareTSMC's quarterly sales hit a record $30 billion — contract chipmaker plans over 15 new fabs to meet still-growing AI demandAfter posting a record $30 billion revenue in Q2 2025, TSMC announced plans to build at least 15 new fabs worldwide.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareJapanese chipmaker Rapidus begins test production of 2nm circuits — company commits to single-wafer processing ahead of 2027 mass production targetRapidus has begun prototyping 2nm gate-all-around transistor structures at its IIM-1 fab in Japan as it prepares for 2027 mass production.Jul 18, 2025
Toms HardwareThe FCC wants to ban Chinese tech from the undersea cables that connect the U.S. to the rest of the world — proposed new rules would 'secure cables against foreign adversaries'The FCC announced yesterday that it plans to vote on new rules "to unleash submarine cable investment to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure, while securing cables against foreign adversaries, like China.Jul 17, 2025
Toms Hardware'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly codeSome operations in FFmpeg are now as much as 100x faster due to the crafting of handwritten assembly code.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareNew adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices in a single slotThe Rocket 1628A and 1528D use HighPoint's PCIe switching architecture to avoid bottlenecks.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel's rumored 'Nova Lake-AX' allegedly packs insane specs but might never launch — reportedly featured 28 CPU cores, 48 Xe3 GPU cores, and an upgraded 256-bit memory bus to counter AMD Strix HaloIntel’s Nova Lake-AX SoC could mark a major leap for x86 mobile chips, pairing 28 CPU cores with a massive 384-EU Xe3 GPU and LPDDR5X at up to 10,667 MT/s. Aimed at hybrid APU competitors like AMD Strix Halo and Apple M-series, it might...Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareCyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme review: affordable and capable, clad in whiteThe CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme with an RTX 5060 Ti and Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivers good mid-range gaming performance with quiet cooling for a reasonable $1,859.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel allegedly planning more Oregon layoffs — new report says retreating operation could become a liability to the stateThe Intel Oregon workforce is down to its lowest point in more than a decade, but there may be more cuts on the way.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareRetro reviewer could face up to three years in jail over copyright — Italian authorities investigate creator for 'advertising' Anbernic handheld game consolesItalian content creator Francesco Salicini is currently under investigation by Italian authorities for reviewing Anbernic consoles.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareScale AI lays off 200 employees, one month after Meta's $14 billion investment — says it scaled up too quicklyJust one month on from Meta investing an alleged $15 billion in data annotation firm, Scale AI, and it's letting go of 200 of its employees, claiming that it scaled up its generative AI teams too quickly.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareAnalogue 3D Nintendo 64 remake delayed again — tariffs blamed for shipment pushback to ‘late August’Analogue will delay shipments of its long-awaited reimagining of the Nintendo 64, again.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareSave £192 off this Herman Miller Vantum gaming chair — your back and your wallet will thank youGame (or work) in comfort with 20% off the Herman Miller Vantum gaming chair.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareAMD quietly reveals cheapest Ryzen AI yet — AI 5 330 is a quad-core budget processor with a 50 TOPS NPUAMD introduces the Ryzen AI 5 330, a budget-friendly quad-core processor with a 50 TOPS NPU that meets Microsoft Copilot+ PC requirements, aiming to bring AI features to inexpensive Windows 11 laptops.Jul 17, 2025
Toms HardwareUkrainian hackers say they compromised a major Russian drone company, destroying data, backups, and systemsGaskar Group denies that the attack was successful, but Ukrainian intelligence is reportedly telling a different story.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareNvidia's new consumer desktop PC chip reportedly delayed well into 2026Nvidia's consumer PC processors N1 and N1X, originally expected in 2025, have been delayed to at least 2026 due to reported 'critical hardware defects' in the chips, possibly requiring a costly and time-consuming silicon respin, according...Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareMalware found embedded in DNS, the system that makes the internet usable, except when it doesn'tFortunately, the example provided appears to be "prank software" rather than more sophisticated malware.Jul 16, 2025
Toms Hardware1 in 5 Steam games released in 2025 use generative AI, up nearly 700% year-on-year — 7,818 titles disclose genAI asset usage, 7% of the entire Steam libraryNew research indicates that there are now over 7,800 Steam titles that disclose the use of generative AI on the platform, a huge increase from 2024.Jul 16, 2025
Toms Hardware'Cyberpunk 2077' system requirements revealed for Apple Silicon Macs — M3 Pro recommended for 1080p 60 FPS gameplayCyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition comes with ultimate requirements. To play the game at 1080p 60 FPS, you need an M3 Pro with 18GB of RAM, and that doesn't include ray tracing. MetalFX dynamic resolution scaling will be used to upscale the...Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareRazer unveils Core X V2 eGPU enclosure with TB5 bandwidth — costs $400, but no longer has a power supply and I/O expansion requires a separate Thunderbolt 5 DockRazer’s new Core X V2 eGPU supports quad-slot cards, 140W charging, and Thunderbolt 5 bandwidth—but drops I/O, PSU, and macOS support. The matching Dock fills the gaps, but at $390, the full setup gets expensive. It’s modular, sleek, but...Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel reportedly prepping supercharged Nova Lake-AX mobile chips for gaming — Team Blue’s high-performance APU to rival AMD’s Strix HaloA popular Intel leaker says that Team Blue is preparing a competitor to AMD's Strix Halo chips, slated to arrive in 2027.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareIntel releases new tool to measure gaming image quality in real time —AI tool measures impact of upscalers, frame gen, others; Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric now available on GitHubIntel has just released its new Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric on GitHub, a new measure designed to capture the complex artifacts found in modern rendering techniques in computer graphics.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareHP OmniBook X Flip 14 review: Speedy and spicyThe HP OmniBook X Flip 14 is a strong AMD-powered 2-in-1 with a lot of ports, but its battery life is too short and it gets hot under load.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareTariff fears caused a surge in entry-level 3D printer sales — Chinese companies accounted for 95% of entry-level machines shipped globallyNew data shows “entry-level” 3D printer sales are up in 2025.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareFirefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave — Mozilla staff's tracking overwhelmed by Intel crash reports, team disables the functionMozilla's engineering staff reports that Intel Raptor Lakes are sensitive to increasing ambient temperatures, resulting in several crash reports flooding in from areas affected by heat waves.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareSwitch 2 account ban saga continues as Redditor taunts Nintendo after ripping 20 cartridges and playing online — others warn that it's just a matter of timeA Reddit user claims to have used a Mig-Flash on their online Switch 2 console extensively and not gotten banned.Jul 16, 2025
Toms HardwareU.S. earmarks $1B for 'offensive cyber operations' despite broader efforts to slash cybersecurity spendingThe "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" specifically looks to bolster the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.Jul 15, 2025
Toms HardwareNvidia reportedly preparing RTX 6000D for Chinese market to comply with U.S. export controls — fabricated on TSMC N4, featuring GDDR7 memory capable of delivering 1,100 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidthNVIDIA is reportedly launching the RTX 6000D GPU for China to offset U.S. export restrictions. Built on TSMC’s 4nm process and armed with GDDR7 memory delivering 1,100 GB/s bandwidth, the card targets AI workloads and could help NVIDIA...Jul 15, 2025
Toms HardwareChip collector showcases 'rarest x86 CPU' in their hoard — Rise mP6 266 ticked along at 200MHz in 1998Some images demonstrating one of the rarest x86 CPUs still running have been shared online.Jul 15, 2025
Toms HardwareSeagate unveils 30TB HDDs for the masses — laser-powered HAMR drives are now widely availableSeagate has released its first mass-market HAMR hard drives — the Exos M and IronWolf Pro up to 30TB — marking a milestone in storage density for such HDDs.Jul 15, 2025
Toms HardwareInvestigation reveals Google Gemini for Workspace flaw that could have been exploited to enlist AI in phishing schemes — 'Summarize this email' tool would faithfully obey malicious instructions hidden inside an emailMozilla's 0-Day Investigative Network (0din) revealed on July 10 that Google Gemini for Workspace could be tricked into telling users their accounts had been compromised.Jul 15, 2025
