Gigabyte X870 Aorus Stealth Motherboard Review: The gothy Goldilocks of rear-connect AM5 motherboards
Gigabyte’s X870 Aorus Stealth flies under the radar to give us one of the best reasonably priced BTF boards for the AM5 platform
The best Amazon Big Spring Sale tech deals 2026 — featuring the best prices on the latest gaming PCs, GPUs, laptops, monitors, peripherals, and more
The best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals on gaming PCs, laptops, tools, and accessories.
Price of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 racks skyrockets to as much as $8.8 million apiece, but server makers’ margins will be tight — Nvidia is moving closer to shipping entire full-scale systems
While quotes for NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system will increase to $5 million – $7 million, margins of ODMs will likely decline.
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads — 1,200 W/m-K “Vapor-Pad” from Xerendipity designed to replace traditional TIM in a CPU
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone’s SoC will use. Xerendipity’s new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat — agency says foreign-made devices pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to US persons
The FCC says that it will no longer certify foreign-made routers, effectively making them illegal to sell in the U.S., unless the manufacturer can secure a “Conditional Approval” from the Department of War or the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump administration targets $4 trillion Pax Silica investment fund for semiconductors — the US will start with a $250 million investment for global consortium
The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.
Microsoft says, for once, Windows update isn’t to blame for Galaxy Book4 laptops losing access to C: drive — the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit, and it’s been taken down from Microsoft Store
Microsoft and Samsung investigated a widely reported issue with Galaxy Book 4 devices and said the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit. These laptops were losing access to the C: drive and, initially, people thought it had something to do with Windows Update. Microsoft has posted recovery steps for those that were affected.
Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however
Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs. However, third-party tools can still help with a workaround.
Nvidia CEO says he’s ’empathic’ to DLSS 5 concerns — Jensen Huang doubles down on defense while decrying ‘AI slop’
In a new podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang struck a more conciliatory tone concerning DLSS 5, saying he’s ’empathetic” to concerns about the feature producing “AI slop.”
3dfx Voodoo 1 Retro Reboot: FPGA Project Recreates The Legendary 1990s GPU
Nostalgic console gaming aficionados have it good, man. You’ve got all kinds of options for playing retro console games, up to and including systems like the Analogue 3D that painstakingly recreate the original hardware using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), chips that can literally be reconfigured on the fly. Old PC gamer nerds like