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Yesterday β€” 26 December 2025Latest from Tom's Hardware

Seagate's 22TB Expansion external hard drive drops to an all-time low of $249.99 β€” ideal for massive backups and data archives

The Seagate Expansion 22TB external HDD delivers huge storage capacity at a steep discount, making it a compelling choice for users who need dependable, plug-and-play mass storage.

AMD's dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears in first benchmark leaks β€” gaming-focused CPU features 192MB of L3 cache stacked across both CCDs

AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and Geekbench, with amicable scores to boot.

The best Boxing Day tech deals at Amazon UK, Argos, Currys, Very, and more β€” huge price drops on gaming PCs, 3D printers, laptops, and peripherals

26 December 2025 at 19:13
Christmas might be over with, but it's time to secure yourself a Boxing Day tech deal. We've put together a list of the best discounts from retailers including Amazon, Currys, Argos, Very, and more.

LG UltraGear evo gaming monitor lineup announced ahead of CES 2026 β€” 27-inch 5K Mini LED, 39-inch curved Tandem OLED, and a 52-inch 5K2K large format display

LG is expanding its gaming monitor portfolio with the launch of UltraGear evo, a premium sub-brand that brings a 5K Mini LED monitor with 2,304 dimming zones, a curved 5K2K OLED ultrawide, and the world’s largest 5K2K gaming display

How China’s control of battery supply chains is becoming a critical risk for U.S. military power and AI initiatives β€” reducing reliance will take nearly a decade

26 December 2025 at 18:39
According to a special report by the New York Times, the U.S. government is concerned about how China sits at the center of that ecosystem, controlling large portions of battery manufacturing and processing.

Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 S27FG60 27-inch 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Phenomenal performance and color

26 December 2025 at 17:00
Samsung brings maximum performance to one of its most colorful monitors with the Odyssey OLED G6 S27FG60. It’s a 27-inch QD-OLED with 500 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR True Black 500, HDR10, HDR10+ and wide gamut color.

Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead β€” lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives

In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis.

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Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever β€” Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO

Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made.

Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support β€” users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers

Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July. Arch is now using the 590 Nvidia Linux driver as its default Nvidia driver, which lacks Pascal support.

Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage β€” building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB.

Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing

25 December 2025 at 17:00
An innovative power supply that relocates modular connectors to the chassis side for superior cable management, delivering Cybenetics Platinum efficiency under a Gold-level marketing badge for builders willing to verify case compatibility.

LG Display reveals world's first 4K 240Hz OLED gaming monitor with a true RGB "striped" subpixel layout β€” New panel succeeds WOLED with multi-stack Tandem OLED

OLED screens, while the pinnacle of display tech today, still aren't perfect, and one area where OLED monitors in specific have struggled is text clarity. Either due to the unorthodox subpixel layout of these panels or the addition of a white subpixel, fringing around text has been a persistent issue, but LG has seemingly solved both at one go.

China's reverse-engineered Frankenstein EUV chipmaking tool hasn't produced a single chip β€” sanctions-busting experiment is still years away from becoming operational

A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades.

HP Omen 27qs G2 27-inch QHD 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Reference-level video and color

24 December 2025 at 18:00
HP delivers reference-quality color and speedy gameplay with the Omen 27qs G2. It’s a 27-inch QHD IPS panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, MPRT, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It also brings superb video processing for super smooth motion.

Lucky Brit scores flagship PC worth almost $5,000 for just ~$2,400 at Costco, even comes armed with $700 worth of DDR5 memory β€” Marked-down build also has an RTX 5090 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist β€” only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own.

Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies β€” built-to-order systems hamstrung by component shortages and skyrocketing prices

Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.

Intel's upcoming Xeon Granite Rapids workstation lineup leaks, poised to challenge AMD Threadripper with $8,300 86-core flagship β€” retailer lists prices ahead of CES launch, starts at $540

AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't be dismissed just yet.

Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter β€” DIY retro console is fully functional with working buttons

A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.

ASRock X870 Taichi Creator Review: A Taichi for Creatives

23 December 2025 at 18:00
ASRock’s X870 Taichi Creator is a good, sub-$320 AM5 motherboard. Its strong all-around performance and creator-focused features - like 10 GbE, ample slot spacing/dual PCIe 5.0 slots, and numerous USB ports- make it a top mid-range option, especially for those who need a lot of expandability

Grab this snappy gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM right now for under $1,000 β€” 1080p-capable ABS rig also has 1TB of storage

23 December 2025 at 17:49
Take advantage of this Newegg deal on an ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, which has dropped in price to just $999.99. This pre-built rig comes with a ten-core Intel Core i5-14400F CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.

Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory β€” buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.

Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks β€” investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free.

You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 β€” Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 β€” the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project.

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