Micro Center lists 8TB WD_Black SSD at $2,419 MSRP, real price tag up 50% since October — pricing surges on high-capacity SSDs in response to AI demand

A mismarked 8TB SSD at Micro Center is sounding the alarm on surging SSD prices in response to demand from AI data centers.
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Save over $500 on the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop we’ve seen with an OLED screen — Grab Lenovo’s Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 CPU for as low as $1,137 with discount code

If you’ve been looking for a high-performance laptop that comes with a modern OLED screen, end your search with the Lenovo Legion 5 (Gen 10). It’s the cheapest we’ve ever seen an OLED laptop with an RTX 5070, saving you ov…

Razer laptop motherboard repair video showcases superhuman hand-soldering skills — PCB damage appears to be the result of a misplaced screw hole on a motherboard that one repairer says has ‘a fatal design flaw’

An electronics technician succeeds in the most intricate gaming laptop motherboard repair we have seen completed.

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You can now buy 2 terabytes of DDR5 server RAM for the low price of just $39,000, and 4 TB for $77,000 — Nemix offers chart-topping capacities amidst an industry shortage

As we face an unprecedented memory crisis, some vendors are still upping the ceiling, introducing higher capacity RAM kits for eye-gouging prices. This time, though, it’s registered ECC server memory not meant for consumer…

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Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff

Raptor Lake vs Arrow Lake Clash!

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Chinese GPU manufacturer Zephyr confirms dead RDNA 2 GPU chips due to cracking, bulging, or shorting — Company says it has replaced several dead Navi 21 cores under warranty

A two-year-old cold case has reawakened as GPU OEM Zephyr has said it has replaced several dying Navi 21 cores on RX 6000 series graphics cards. Previously, this was an isolated incident that never got much attention, so t…

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia’s RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn’t good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers

We have seen these types of mods on multiple generations of Nvidia cards; it was only inevitable that the RTX 5080 would get the same treatment.
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110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator modded into a gaming PC — massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components

Billet Labs have teased a new gaming PC build where a 110 pound cast iron radiator is (almost entirely) the PC.

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Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store

Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up.
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Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’

Mirari, a Micro-ATX mainboard designed to “breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform,” is set to launch mid-2026.
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