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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PSA: Your watch band may be messing with your laptop – magnetic clasps can cause lid sensors to lock your PC
Got a new laptop (or a new watch band) and getting kicked to the lock screen as you try to type?
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Google could build more AI accelerators than Nvidia sells in 2028, analyst claims — could push the company to use Intel Foundry to meet its goals
Could be a big win for Google and Intel, but not necessarily a problem for Nvidia.
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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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Desktops
Desktop reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Exploring Apple Silicon’s local AI performance with the Mac Studio and M4 Max — M4 Max beats GB10 and Strix Halo in decode throughput, but memory bandwidth isn't everything
Does higher memory bandwidth make for the best local AI platform?
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Nvidia's fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090's MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300
Premium RTX 50-series GPUs get more expensive.
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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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Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code
Dave W. Plummer says he will release this new utility via the Mac App Store for free in Beta.
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Examining the best options for PCIe SSDs during the RAMpocalypse — capacity trumps raw speed for most tasks
Don't be bamboozled by the marketing
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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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30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
Georgia Power denies the allegation, says it’s ‘not in the data center business.’
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Are your motherboard's M.2 heatsinks making good contact with your SSD? We tested 20 modern Intel and AMD motherboards to verify
Heatsink contact is a key to good M.2 cooling
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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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Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores
RosaicLabs is the first company to get an x86 core from Intel in a decade.
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Operating Systems
Discover more about Operating System with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Tech Industry
Discover more about Tech Industry with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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SSDs
SSD reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Why you need a macro pad, even if you have a mouse with 19 buttons — from $10 mechanical numpads to multi-screen window management
In addition to a mouse with 19 buttons.
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A Mac Mini server is running headless in my closet — it manages my photo library and handles my backups
It's not exactly a NAS, but it does the job.
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Foreign-made robot vacuums caught up in FCC robot ban — covers any ground robot over 4.4 pounds with a 200 kbps connection
Chinese civilian drone exports to the US fell 60% to 70% year over year after DJI's listing.
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Mini PCs
Mini PC reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Nintendo
Nintendo reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Pennsylvania town lists 43 specific demands to approve new AI data center project — developer calls local demands 'too difficult' as council slams response as 'approval by tantrum'
The township says this is ‘a blatant attempt by the Applicant to demand approval by tantrum.’
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargo
You'll have to provide your own bottles of rum, though.
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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server
Preserving 80TB of digital anarchy into 15TB of compressed data
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Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way
You should have been able to play your discs offline.
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Xbox
Xbox reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Gaming PCs
Gaming PC reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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HDDs
HDD reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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An inside tour of Lenovo’s North Carolina AI server manufacturing line expansion — Chinese firm expanding US-native production to meet exploding demand
Lenovo’s U.S. server manufacturing line gets a capacity boost.
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Valve says that Steam Machine reservations won't be fulfilled until ‘the end of this year’ — company also releases CAD files for the PC console’s external shell under Creative Commons
Steam Machine fans waiting for their turn to buy the console need to be patient for a little bit more.
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Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028
Hard drives are spinning up Seagate's earnings.
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GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS
Plug-and-play convenience for an advanced mod.
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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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Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with pepper spray to neutralize school shooters — ‘Campus Guardian Angel’ drones can also smash windows and ram attackers
Anti-shooter system coming to at least three states this year.
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Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop SKU to require 65W of separate power delivery for its iGPU, leaker claims — beefy integrated graphics could require two VCCGT phases for 12 Xe3P cores
One VCCGT phase can usually sustain up to 30W safely.
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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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How to buy second-hand PC hardware without getting scammed — essential rules of engagement for finding used parts and machines in an inflated market
Avoid scams, scams, and even more scams.
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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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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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SSDs
SSD reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Testing laptops on battery life and AC power — Comparing Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD
Do you get the same performance on a plug and on battery? Sometimes!
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Memory maker SK hynix's profit rises 557% amid global shortage, expansion costs climb to $27 billion — shares slide despite mammoth earnings as expectations outpace reality and global AI selloffs continue
Q3 DRAM bit shipments are guided up around 10%, one quarter after average selling prices climbed roughly 30%.
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.