Purported Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs might bring extra performance with no price premium — early retailer listings show practically no price hike for some Core Ultra 200K Plus chips

An overseas retailer has listed Intel’s forthcoming Core Ultra 200K Plus (codenamed Arrow Lake Refresh) processors along with pricing, suggesting that the refreshed family will carry practically no premium over existing pr…

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China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

One of Loongson’s 12-core CPUs has been benchmarked by Phoronix. The Linux outlet discovered the chip is three times slower on average than AMD’s latest six-core CPU the Ryzen 5 9600X.
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DDR5 RAM pricing begins to stabilize in Germany, January saw only a 0.1% increase — Some kits even saw price cuts as volatility begins to plateau

German retailers’ inventory saw DDR5 memory prices stabilizing for the first time in months, with some kits even miraculously seeing price cuts compared to the start of January. This doesn’t indicate that the crisis is ove…

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

Western Digital reveals hard disk drives tailored for higher performance and lower power consumption, targeting QLC NAND-based solid-state storage.
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Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

Western Digital announces HDD roadmap till 2029 at its Innovation Day.

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MSI MAG Pro X870E-P Wifi Motherboard review: Designed for productivity, but not a standout

The MSI MAG Pro X870E-P WiFi is a sub-$300 X870E motherboard with PCIe 5.0, fast networking, and EZ DIY features, built for productivity-focused users.
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Snap up 32GB of Crucial Pro Overclocking RAM for $325.99 — the cheapest available DDR5-6000 kit for hitting AMD’s sweetspot

Crucial’s 32GB Pro Overclocking DDR5-6000 kit is now the cheapest 32GB kit in its class.

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs begin to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at last — RX 9070 arrives with paltry 0.16% market share, less than the GeForce GT 730

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and a single AMD RDNA4 architecture GPU has charted in the PC Video Card Usage tables.
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Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill

The power supply unit touches every part of your PC, and that means an older PSU poses a unique risk to your precious components if it fails. If you’re trying to get more life out of an old PC or pulling an older computer …

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Frankenstein RTX 5070 Ti with an RTX 2080 Ti PCB breaks world record with extreme modding — card was damaged, salvaged with AMD donor parts and lots of soldered wires and tape

A Brazilian modding team has improved its resurrected RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it by recycling parts from an RTX 2080 Ti and an AMD RX 580 to break a benchmark world record.
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