AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC — affordable gaming CPU seemingly exclusive to retailer for now
This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.
Pay just $1299 for the MSI Vector 16 with RTX 5070 Ti graphics and 240Hz QHD screen in this early Black Friday deal — superb specs for such a well-priced gaming laptop
Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal.
Nvidia hasn’t canceled RTX 5000 Super refreshes as previously rumored – but don’t expect these GPUs anytime soon
RTX 5000 Super GPUs aren’t canned, but may not arrive until later in 2026 – with doubts raised over the RTX 6000 timeframe, too.
Intel’s CTO and AI chief leaves for OpenAI after just seven months in role — follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack
Intel’s Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company’s compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-Tan, will take over the role of managing Intel’s AI efforts going forward.
Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks — single-thread Dhrystone performance charted across 25 systems released between 1976 and 2023
Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.
Grab this Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card for below RRP — just £379.99 for this punchy GPU before Black Friday
OCUK has dropped the price of this Zotac-branded RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to below its RRP, making it a brilliant bargain before Black Friday kicks off.
The ‘worst-selling Microsoft product of all time’ sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it — why you’ve never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20
A specialized version of the ill-fated OS/2 holds the dubious record, and probably will forever.
Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge
An LED testing ‘device’ which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition
Elgato Facecam Neo Review: Versatile and cheap
Elgato’s Facecam Neo is a budget-friendly plug-and-play webcam that performs well in low-light scenarios and works on just about any device with a USB-C port (including non-traditional devices, such as iPads). It cost $99.99 when it first launched, but the price has since been permanently cut to $59.99, which might be an unbeatable deal.
From 1976 To Today, Dhrystone Benchmarks Reveal How Far CPUs Have Come
Possibly the most absurd truth of modern computing is that, as far as the technology has evolved, we’re fundamentally still doing the exact same thing we were doing decades ago: twiddling bits. The question, of course, has always been how fast we can twiddle those bits, and how many we can do at once. Because it’s still the same work, though,