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With a list price of US$149.99 on Acer's website and US$169.99 on Amazon, the 27-inch SB272 Ebi monitor is now down to a mere US$119.99 thanks to a 29% discount from the world's largest online retailer. The highlights of this FHD IPS monitor include a 100 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms VRB response time, as well as AMD FreeSync support.

A new leak from Kopite7kimi says the GeForce RTX 5090 could feature a 512-bit memory bus. The graphics card is due to launch sometime in 2025. It is said be manufactured on TSMC's 3 nm node and feature GDDR7 memory.

OnePlus has finally announced pricing for the "Winter Bonfire" version of its inaugural mechanical keyboard. The OEM asserts that the 81 Pro will revolutionize its market with custom double-shot key-caps and "three-segment" switches. It is available to purchase across multiple markets, in one of which the company's old invite system is resurrected.

One of the few non-curved Odyssey gaming monitors by Samsung currently available on the market, the 43-inch Neo G7 arrived in early March 2023 and sports a 4K resolution, 144 Hz refresh, and 1 ms response time. The ongoing 36% discount pushes it from US$999.99 to US$643.99 on Amazon, while Samsung US has it listed for US$799.99.

Sporting one USB-C and dual Thunderbolt 3 connectors, as well as one HDMI port, the SanDisk Professional G-RAID 2 dual-drive storage system with a capacity of 36 TB (model number SDPH62H-036T-NBAAD) and hardware RAID is now 25% off on Amazon. Thanks to this discount, it can be acquired for US$1,199.99 instead of US$1,599.99.

Available on Amazon since mid-November 2022, the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Trinity OC video card had a price tag of US$1,299.99 less than two months ago. Thankfully, a brand-new discount of 15% has just pushed it to US$1,099.99, which also happens to be the lowest price it had on Amazon so far.

Lepow calls its latest portable monitor the DualViews, as it allows the user to connect not just one but two extra screens to a range of devices. They can be stacked vertically above a laptop for a particularly tall multi-tasking experience, or present information to others thanks to a convertible-like hinged build. Not only that, but one of the DualViews' screens is to have touchscreen functionality.

The Ryzen 5 7500F is the latest entry into the Zen 4 desktop CPU family. The processor costs US$179 and supports A620 motherboards making it a good choice for budget-focused gamers. According to Quasarzone’s review of the chip, the Ryzen 5 7500F performs better than the more expensive Core i5-13500 and the Core i5-13400 in gaming workloads.

Wesion will soon launch the Khadas Mind workstation mini PC powered by an Intel i7-1360P processor coupled with 32 Gb LPDDR5-5200 and up to 4 TB NVMe SSD storage. This is the main unit that can be docked with a suite of modules, including the Mind Graphics powered by an RTX 4060M dGPU plus the Mind xPlay portable display with detachable keyboard.

The Intel Arrow Lake CPUs could be the first products to use technologies proposed by Jim Keller’s Royal Core project if the latest leak from Moore’s Law Is Dead is accurate. The leaker also claims that Team Blue could eliminate Hyper-Threading from ARL chips completely. However, despite the removal of HT, the flagship ARL chip could still end up trouncing the top Raptor Lake SKU by 40%+.

Elon Musk has announced that the site heretofore known as Twitter will "bid adieu" to its former brand identity, iconic blue bird avatar included. Company CEO Linda Yaccarino has touted the announcement as a pivotal stage in the social media platform's evolution into an "everything app" that integrates payments as well as multimedia messaging.

Available since 2020, the LG UltraGear 34GP83A-B is a WQHD curved gaming monitor with 144 hz standard refresh rate (160 Hz overclock) compliant with the VESA DisplayHDR 400 specifications, also sporting both G-Sync and FreeSync Premium support. After a 31% discount, its price has fallen to US$549 from US$799.99.

Intel designed the NUC Extreme mini PCs to accommodate high-end desktop-grade processors, but this might not be the case anymore, as the Meteor Lake models equipping the rumored Asus NUC Extreme only include laptop-grade cores.

AMD is expected to release the RX 7800 and RX 7700 in September. The cards which could possibly be the last RDNA 3 offerings allegedly feature the mid-range Navi 32 GPU. According to recent 3DMark Time Spy Graphics figures reported by leaker All_The_Watts, the RX 7800 and RX 7700 could outpace the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti respectively.

Blizzard has announced that Overwatch 2 will be playable via Steam on August 10, the same day as Overwatch 2: Invasion's launch. A Battle.net account will still be required to play the game.

Unleashed yesterday and labeled 536.67, the latest driver package from Nvidia comes with support for Portal: Prelude RTX, as well as the upcoming Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Remnant II. A few G-Sync Compatible gaming monitors and GeForce Experience Optimal Settings presets are also present.

With the new BIOS version, most of the Ryzen 7000 CPUs will be running at least DDR5-6400 1:1 stably. Up to DDR5-8000+ is now possible depending on silicon lottery, but in order to achieve such speeds users only need a B650 motherboard. X670E mobos can achieve DDR5-8200 with some tinkering.

The RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB is the latest GPU to come out of NVIDIA’s camp. The card features the same 4,352 CUDA cores, 2.5 GHz boost frequency, and 288 GB/s memory bandwidth as the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB but doubles the VRAM buffer. NVIDIA has priced the board at US$499 in the US and €549 in Europe. However, the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB has been listed for more than some RTX 4070 models in Germany.

With a generous resolution of 3,440 X 1,440 pixels and comprehensive connectivity options (USB, USB-C, HDMI, DP), the 34-inch Samsung ViewFinity S6 carrying the model number LS34A650UBNXGO is now down by a solid 44% on Amazon. Thanks to this discount, it can be acquired for US$394.93 instead of US$699.99.

Designed with next-generation systems that could hit the market later this year, the industry's first GDDR7 DRAM has now completed the development stage. According to Samsung, the new GDDR7 design sports a 32 Gbps boosted speed per pin while being 20% more efficient and having 1.4 times the bandwidth of its predecessor.

Key specs of Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake refresh lineup have been leaked online. Except for the Core i7-14700K, all SKUs bring marginal improvements over their 13th-gen counterparts.

It appears that the Navi 32-based RX 7800 and the RX 7700 might be on the horizon as new information from Moore’s Law Is Dead suggests that AMD is getting ready to release the cards in a couple of months. The leaker has also claimed that the RX 7900 based on the cut-down Navi 31 GPU could see an unusual launch with constrained supply.

The new Thunderobot MIX mini PCs will launch later this week with up to an i9 Raptor Lake-HX and an RTX 4060 GPU. Exact specs will be released on July 21, and the starting price is set to be around US$840.

It is now ~US$100 cheaper than the Intel i5-13600K, while the non-X 7600 is US20 more expensive, as well. This deal is even better when we factor in the included Starfield game code.

Intel is reportedly releasing the refreshed Raptor Lake CPUs for desktops and mobile as 14th-gen chips in the coming months and the Arrow Lake chips in the second half of next year. According to Intel’s internal performance projections for the Arrow Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh chips, the desktop ARL-S processors could bring up to 21% performance gain vs the Core i9-13900K alongside an Xe-LPG iGPU that could be 2.4x as fast as the HD 770 inside the desktop Raptor Lake-S parts.

Named a CES Innovation Award honoree in early 2023, the Samsung ViewFinity S9 (S90PC) 27-inch 5K monitor is now globally available. Providing roughly 50% more desktop real estate compared to other UHD monitors, this piece of hardware also comes with a typical brightness value of 600 nits, 1,000:1 contrast, and much more.

JLab has augmented its Epic series of products with an accessory that can connect to smartphones, tablets or PCs - however, it is for typing on them rather than listening to their audio in this case. The Epic Wireless Keyboard aims for a premium experience with a metallic build that incorporates a physical media dial and "soft touch" keys (that can be shared between up to 3 user devices), yet has been priced at well under US$100.

Offering speeds up to 5 Gbps via USB 3.0, the WD My Book desktop external hard drive is also backward compatible with the USB 2.0 interface. The 18 TB model, labeled WDBBGB0180HBK-NESN, is now down by 59% on Amazon, so it can be acquired for an excellent US$218.99 instead of the list price of US$539.99.

Available since late 2022, when it launched with a US$1,499.99 price tag, the Samsung Odyssey G85SB (model LS34BG850SNXZA) is a 34-inch curved gaming monitor with a QD-OLED panel that has finally dropped below the US$1,000 threshold less than a week ago. Thanks to a generous 33% discount, its price fell to US$999.99.

The MiniAir 11 from GEEKOM is a tiny desktop with enough power for office work and media streaming, and it's currently on sale for a dollar under US$125. At this price, you'll get an 11th Gen Intel Celeron CPU, 8 GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 256 GB SSD.

Just like LG with the CX WOLED debacle back in 2020, Samsung sneaked 40 Gbps HDMI 2.1 connectors on the S95C QD-OLED, yet it actually advertised 48 Gbps connectors. This limitation comes from the One Connect box and is not present on the more affordable S90C models that are missing the external box.

Nixxes and Insomniac games have revealed the PC system requirements for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. The game can run on mechanical hard drives thanks to DirectStorage 1.2 support, although one needs reasonably beefy hardware to play the game at 4K with raytracing.

NVIDIA launched the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB on May 24 for US$399. The company is getting ready to release the 16 GB version for US$499 reportedly on July 18. Disappointingly, Hardware Unboxed suggests on Twitter that the GPU may not be covered extensively by the press as there is “no official review program” and AIBs have reportedly refused to send review samples to the outlet.

Some power draw gap is within reason since Nvidia uses 4 nm tech, while AMD employs a combo of 5 and 6 nm. Yet a 150 W difference seems a bit ridiculous. AMD has been working on driver fixes since December last year, but the abnormal power issues are still there.

Released in late 2020 with a US$299 price tag, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor is now listed on Amazon with a price tag that reads US$309. Thankfully, those interested in it can take advantage of the Prime Day Deal that pushes this list price by 57% to an all-time low of US$133.08.AMD Ryzen 5 5600X drops to an all-time low US$133.08.

Compatible with a wide range of devices, from Windows PCs and Macs to gaming consoles and Linux-driven PCs, the Crucial X8 portable SSD can achieve read speeds of over 1,000 MB/s and features a rugged build that can handle dust, drops, or vibrations. The 4 TB version is now 54% off, so it goes for US$219.99 instead of US$479.99.

Down to US$289.99 from a list price of US$369.99, the Gigabyte G32QC A-SA curved gaming monitor uses a 32-inch VA panel with 1500R curvature, 165 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms response time, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro support, and 93% DCI-P3 color gamut. This VESA Display HDR400-compliant monitor also comes with VESA wall mounting support.

Diablo IV will finally get a remedy for the annoying memory leak on PC. A Blizzard employee has acknowledged the issue and says a fix will be included in the June 18 gameplay patch.

Featuring a curved 1500R 4K UHD display with an accurate size of 31.5 inches and a set of features that includes a blue light filter and 3D capabilities, the Samsung ViewFinity UR59 office monitor is now down by 22% on Amazon. Thanks to this discount, its list price of US$449.99 is now down to a more affordable $349.99.

The Raptor Lake HX-based Intel Core i7-14700K has been benchmarked online. Overall, it is up to 18% faster than the Core i7-13700K. Its actual performance uplift could be higher once the CPU launches in October.

Compatible with both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, the WD Elements external drive with model number WDBWLG0220HBK-NESN is now down by 31% on Amazon. Thanks to this generous discount, those interested can get 22 TB of additional storage for their PC or Mac for US$379.99 instead of the US$549.99 list price.

Featuring 512 MB cache memory, the gargantuan 22 TB WD Red Pro mechanical hard drive was designed with NAS and server use scenarios in mind. Its highlights include a yearly workload rate of 300 TB and NASware 3.0 error recovery. Thanks to a 23% discount, it is now down from US$599.99 to US$459.99.

Introduced as the ultimate processor for gamers and creators with no less than 144 MB of cache memory, 16 cores, 32 threads, and a maximum boost speed of 5.7 GHz, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is now 10% off on Amazon. However, the discounted price of US$629.99 can drop to US$550 thanks to a US$72.99 coupon applied at checkout.

Prices start for as low as US$147 for the 27-inch 1080p 240 Hz 27G1H gaming monitor up to US$639 for the 27-inch mini-LED HDR1000 4K 32M2V monitor.

According to an anonymous Chinese source, Nvidia appears to use the same anti-competitive tactics that made the GeForce Partner Program so infamous. On top of reportedly getting delayed to sometime in 2024, Intel's Arc Battlemage GPUs might also face supply issues if Nvidia has its way.