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Nintendo Wii Mini PC Build, complete with original GameCube controller ports.

Nintendo Wii turned into a sleeper gaming PC

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YouTuber takes a Nintendo Wii with a broken disc drive and turns it into a sleeper mini PC build.

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Deals Grab $200 off this no-compromise RTX 4090-powered gaming laptop.

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AMD-powered OLED handheld aims to rival the Steam Deck OLED

Aaron Klotz published 4 November 24

OneXPlayer published a teaser of its next generation OLED handheld gaming PC featuring a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU running Black Myth: Wukong at nearly 60FPS.

Asus RX 6750 GRE 10GB Megalodon

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Asus has released a new triple-fan model of the RX 6750 GRE, the RX 6750 GRE Atlas Shark, showing that there’s still plenty of leftover midrange RDNA 2 GPUs to sell.

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Nintendo Alarmo joins the list of "unexpected devices that can play Doom."

Windows 11

Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades

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Windows 11 market share reached an all-time high of 35.58% as per Statcounter's latest report from October 2024

An AMD prebuilt PC sold in China.

AMD’s China-exclusive lineup of prebuilt PCs gets Ryzen 7 9800X3D upgrade

Matthew Connatser published 4 November 24

In China, AMD is releasing its prebuilt desktops featuring the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

The Asus TUF Gaming A2 SSD enclosure

Asus rolls out rugged USB-C SSD enclosure that delivers transfer speeds up to 20 Gb/s

Kunal Khullar published 4 November 24

The SSD enclosure comes with U.S. MIL-STD-810H standards and offers IP68 water- and dust-resistance.

Raspberry Pi

These Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles were made from scratch

Ash Hill published 4 November 24

Miroslav Kotalík has created a pair of Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles from scratch completely from the ground up.

The card-scanning Nintendo e-Reader peripheral for Game Boy Advance, originally released in Japan in 2001 and stateside in 2002

Clever coder crams a Solitaire game onto a single Nintendo GBA e-Reader card

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Nintendo Game Boy Advance's little-used e-Reader accessory can read enough data from a single card swipe to run an entire homebrew game of Solitaire.

Panasonic

FFmpeg devs boast of 94x performance boost through handwritten assembly code

Anton Shilov published 4 November 24

FFmpeg developers achieve a unique performance achievement with a handwritten AVX-512 code.

Intel D1X Mod3 fab expansion in Oregon

Intel CEO complains 'this is taking too long' after investing $30B but receiving zero CHIPS Act funding

Anton Shilov published 4 November 24

Intel has invested over $30 billion in new fabs after the CHIPS Act was enacted and received zero funding from the government so far.

Lineup of Asus X870 motherboards

Asus 'Turbo Game Mode' arrives on its AM5 motherboards

Kunal Khullar published 3 November 24

Asus is rolling out a new BIOS update for a variety of AMD motherboards

PlayStation 5 Pro 30th Anniversary

Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM

Christopher Harper published 3 November 24

Alleged specs, teardown of PlayStation 5 Pro have emerged online just days ahead of its November 7 release date.

AMD

Will next-gen Threadripper 9000 "Shimada Peak" CPUs have an X3D counterpart?

Hassam Nasir published 3 November 24

A WRX90 motherboard manual includes support for 3D V-Cache on AMD's Threadripper chips.

Raspberry Pi

This Raspberry Pi Nerf blaster is insanely over-engineered

Ash Hill published 3 November 24

JustFPV1 has put together an extremely complex custom Nerf blaster using one of our favorite microprocessors, the RP2040.

Linux

Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia

Mark Tyson published 3 November 24

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has sprung into action with plans to create its own Linux community.

Microsoft Wooden Data Center

Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65%

Jowi Morales published 3 November 24

Microsoft is trying to use wood material instead of concrete for its Northern Virgina data centers in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Intel

Intel reportedly scaling back R&D teams in Israel — several hundred talented staff will be laid off

Anton Shilov published 3 November 24

Intel is reportedly laying off and letting go Israeli R&D personnel responsible for some of its most successful microarchitectures.

FidelityFX Super Resolution

AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228%

Christopher Harper published 3 November 24

A Linux performance issue with an AMD FSR 2 sample on RDNA 2 GPUs has been fixed.

Intel has invested over $30 billion in new fabs after the CHIPS Act was enacted and received zero funding from the government so far. — Intel CEO complains 'this is taking too long' after investing $30B but receiving zero CHIPS Act funding Intel has invested over $30 billion in new fabs after the CHIPS Act was enacted and received zero funding from the government so far.

FFmpeg developers achieve a unique performance achievement with a handwritten AVX-512 code. — FFmpeg devs boast of 94x performance boost through handwritten assembly code FFmpeg developers achieve a unique performance achievement with a handwritten AVX-512 code.

In China, AMD is releasing its prebuilt desktops featuring the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. — AMD’s China-exclusive lineup of prebuilt PCs gets Ryzen 7 9800X3D upgrade In China, AMD is releasing its prebuilt desktops featuring the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

The SSD enclosure comes with U.S. MIL-STD-810H standards and offers IP68 water- and dust-resistance. — Asus rolls out rugged USB-C SSD enclosure that delivers transfer speeds up to 20 Gb/s The SSD enclosure comes with U.S. MIL-STD-810H standards and offers IP68 water- and dust-resistance.

The RX 6600 overtakes the RX 580 as the most popular gaming GPU on Steam but fails to mark Radeon's entry into the top 30 list. — AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker The RX 6600 overtakes the RX 580 as the most popular gaming GPU on Steam but fails to mark Radeon's entry into the top 30 list.

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Review: A Touch of class

By Les Pounder published 4 November 24

It has been nine years since the previous Touch Display was released.

Gigabyte G6

Gigabyte G6 review: A swing and a miss

By Brandon Hill published 3 November 24

The Gigabyte G6’s $999 price tag is initially enticing, but its performance and battery life are lacking.

Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 13 1300W

Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 13 1300W Power Supply Review

By E. Fylladitakis published 2 November 24

Modular design and top-tier build quality, for a price.

Turtle Beach Kone II

Turtle Beach Kone II Review: Big but surprisingly comfortable

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 2 November 24

It's a little clunky, but I don't hate it.

Corsair RM750x (2024) PSU

Corsair RM750x (2024) PSU review

By E. Fylladitakis published 1 November 24

The Corsair RM750x (2024) brings modern connectivity with ATX 3.1 compliance, excellent voltage regulation, and efficient performance.

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Save some space without sacrificing performance or looks with the best compact PC cases we've tested.

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Based on cooling, noise, and compatibility tests, these are our favorite PC cases.

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CPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2024: CPU Rankings

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All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.

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Graphics Cards

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We've run hundreds of GPU benchmarks on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics cards and ranked them in our comprehensive hierarchy, with over 80 GPUs tested.

FidelityFX Super Resolution

AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228%

By Christopher Harper published 3 November 24

A Linux performance issue with an AMD FSR 2 sample on RDNA 2 GPUs has been fixed.

Minisforum MGA1

Minisforum launches $559 RX 7600M XT OCuLink eGPU docking station for mini-PCs

By Jowi Morales published 1 November 24

Minisforum is launched an RX 7600M eGPU with an OCuLink port.

Laptops

Gigabyte G6

Gigabyte G6 review: A swing and a miss

By Brandon Hill published 3 November 24

The Gigabyte G6’s $999 price tag is initially enticing, but its performance and battery life are lacking.

MSI Cyborg 15

MSI Cyborg 15 Review: An overly budget gaming laptop

By Charles Jefferies published 31 October 24

MSI’s Cyborg 15 is cheap, but its below-average performance and screen will make you wish you spent more.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi YouTube Performance

Tested: OS update solves Raspberry Pi’s age-old YouTube frame-rate problem.

By Les Pounder published 4 November 24

You can now stream YouTube very smoothly at 1080p and 60 fps on a Pi 5.

Best Rasperry Pi 2024

Best Raspberry Pi Projects: November 2024

By Ash Hill published 4 November 24

Update We've gathered ten of the best Raspberry Pi projects we've had the honor of covering over the last month.

Raspberry Pi

These Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles were made from scratch

By Ash Hill published 4 November 24

Miroslav Kotalík has created a pair of Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles from scratch completely from the ground up.

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AMD CPU

Ryzen 9 9900X has dropped to an all-time low price at Amazon

By Ash Hill published 2 November 24

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X processor has dropped to a new all-time low price at Amazon—just $382 instead of its usual $499.

Real Deals

The humungous 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD crashes to a new all-time low price

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Deals Western Digital's massive 8TB WD_Black SN850X SSD drops dramatically to a new all-time low.

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SK hynix's superfast 1TB Tube T31 USB flash drive is now $61, hitting its lowest-ever price

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Deals SK hynix's Tube T31 is a best-in-class storage drive for just $61.

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