The Adata Legend 960 is a high-end, PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that arrives late to the market. It avoids throttling with the heatspreader but is not efficient, and its performance is average aside from its excellent sustained writes.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adata-legend-960-ssd-review
The Nighthawk RS700 brings impressive features and speed... for a price.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/netgear-nighthawk-rs700-wifi7
SMIC will have problems making chips using sub-40nm nodes if the U.S. imposes new sanctions against China.
With Windows 11 (and possibly 10) now enabling VBS by default, we ran some tests to see how much it's impacting performance with the RTX 4090 on a Core i9-13900K. Here are the results of our testing.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-vbs-harms-performance-rtx-4090
AMD introduces EPYC 9004-series processors for storage, networking, and industrial applications.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rolls-out-epyc-embedded-9004-series-cpus
Dell will start to remove Chinese ICs from products starting in 2025, says a new report, moving steadily to cut all Chinese manufacturing from US-sold products by 2027.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dell-made-in-china-us-exit
A new Geekbench 5 listing shows off an unannounced 'Phoenix' CPU named the Ryzen 5 7640U. It features the Zen 4 CPU architecture, 4nm lithography, RDNA3 graphics, and a massive performance uplift over the Ryzen 5 6600U.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/unannounced-zen-4-phoenix-hits-nearly-5ghz
It's not often you see such large discounts so soon after its product release, but we're not complaining. Get $100 off MSI's first wireless router, the RadiX AXE6600 WiFi 6E tri-band gaming router and get better connected.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/get-dollar100-off-msis-first-gaming-router-real-deals
Cooler Master brings Mini LED technology to an affordable price point with its Tempest GP27Q. With QHD resolution, 165 Hz, HDR 1000, extended color and Adaptive-Sync, it delivers premium picture quality and snappy gaming performance.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cooler-master-tempest-gp27q
The Radeon RX 6300, an unreleased and probably OEM-exclusive graphics card, emerges in the second-hand market.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-6300-surfaces-in-china