Hardware
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Gem Mint signed 1983 Steve Jobs business card opens at $70,000 — second signed card from that era after $180,000 record sale
This 1983 business card is rarity among collectors.
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Dell founder shows how a $100 billion empire started 42 years ago — CEO says ‘This one page changed my life’
$135,000 in 1984 is a lot of money.
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Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun
Windows 11 is about to go on a diet
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Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant
Impressive hacking skills on display, but the incidents illustrate a lack of 101-level cybersecurity practices
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97 untouched Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. cartridges worth thousands discovered in retro shop storage room — never-before-seen version of popular NES games include five perfect 10 PSA items
A find of a lifetime probably worth $10,000 per piece or more.
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'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix
Founders Edition buyer launches “Nozzle Gate” website in response
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Sony doubles down on axing physical game discs — CFO reiterates 'we’re going to cautiously move this forward'
The countdown to the end of PlayStation discs begins
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Lost one-of-a-kind Nintendo DS cartridge hits eBay for $9,100 — PokePark Fishing Contest designed to delete itself after 12 hours, game so rare it was only distributed to theme park attendees in 2005
PokePark Fishing Contest DS was a temporary, event‑exclusive Nintendo DS Download Play game that made the rounds in 2005.
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RAM
RAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Cooling
CPU Cooling reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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DRAM
DRAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Semiconductors
Discover more about Semiconductor with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Laptops
Laptop reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Peripherals
Peripherals reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Big Tech
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Tech Industry
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
We’ve been covering CPUs for a long time. It’s time to zoom out for some perspective.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is fighting 'a hundred-year flood' on memory pricing — expects to pay even more for memory in September following recent price hikes
Apple's filings show the size of the buffer absorbing the DRAM shock.
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Big tech spends more than $1 trillion on AI infrastructure — additional $745 billion expected to be added to the figure in 2026 alone
Would these massive investments return an even greater profit?
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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing
We take a look back at the history of Tom’s Hardware as we celebrate our 30-year anniversary.
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PC Components
PC Component reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Beat the AI price surge on PC hardware — leverage Newegg combo deals, track Amazon prices, and shop refurb outlets like Woot
Looking for deals in all the right places.
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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access
Dev wanted a simple method for transfering audio files between devices on different networks.
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Docking Stations and Hubs
Docking Station and Hub reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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DDR5
DDR5 reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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3D Printing
3D Printer reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Setting up OpenClaw isn’t as straightforward as the internet wants you to think – running local AI on humble hardware
Lies, deceit, and HammerClaw.
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Motherboards
Motherboard reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Your motherboard's M.2 SSD heatsink might be slowing down your SSD — Only 6 of 20 tested boards made full contact
Heatsink contact is a key to good M.2 cooling
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer
True dual-nozzle independent operation for a competitive price.
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Networking
Discover more about Networking with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Linux
Discover more about Linux with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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PlayStation
PlayStation reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2'
Long-term effort can eventually pay off big dividends.
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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3%, one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM
Expect to drop 8 of your performance, and less with X3D CPUs.
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Sub-$400 Thunderbolt 5 dock roundup — Keychron and Plugable offer dual HDMI, but UGREEN takes top spot with an M.2 NVMe slot
Not all Thunderbolt 5 docking stations are created equal
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GPUs
GPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today — milestone unifying modern Windows OS hit RTM in the Pentium era
It was also the last NT release to support Alpha, MIPS, or PowerPC CPU architectures.
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Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company's keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid
Crashing mechanical shambles makes the presentation ring hollow.
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Windows
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PC Gaming
Discover more about PC Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Ambitious gamer turns fanless Subway menu PCs into gaming rigs — passive Intel Core i3 units manage just 15 fps in GTA V and 25 fps in Minecraft
Subway's ‘Make it what you want’ slogan doesn’t quite stretch from the sandwich to the PC world in this instance.