
Sabrent’s Thunderbolt 5 external SSD hits over 6 GB/s — Rocket XTRM 5 brings NVMe-class speeds to portable storage
Yesterday, Sabrent gave the world a sneak peek of the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 external SSD, using and benchmarking a prototype unit to establish baseline expectations for the next generation of external storage. The reveal from Sabrent comes just under a year after the official Thunderbolt 5 debut, which provided specs of a maximum 80 Gigabits bidirectional throughput (roughly 10 GB/s read/write theoretical maximum).

Alleged Ryzen 9 9900X result puts AMD on top as single-threaded CPU champ in Geekbench
A purported AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Geekbench 6 CPU test run has been surfaced by Benchleaks. The single-threaded score of 3,401 points is remarkable and, if genuine, would go straight to the top of the Geekbench 6 processor benchmark charts. A reported multi-threaded...

Asus launches budget-friendly overclocking motherboard — Z790-AYW WIFI W debuts with DDR5-8000+ support
Asus has announced a new entry in its Z790 motherboard lineup, the Z790-AYW WIFI W. Designed for 14th-generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors and older, the new ATX form factor mainboard supports overclocking that might rival MSI’s MPower lineup. Asus has a...

Samsung reveals 16-layer 3D DRAM plans with VCT DRAM as a stepping stone — IMW 2024 details the future of compact, higher density RAM
Samsung is pushing hard to develop 3D DRAM, the future of compact RAM, according to its presentation at IMW 2024. VCT (vertical channel transistor) DRAM is the first mountain to climb in this goal, and Samsung is scheduled to complete initial development on it next...

Leak reveals 500W fire-breathing 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 CPU
Yuuki_ans on X (formerly Twitter) published a leaked slide comprised of most (if not all) of Intel's upcoming Xeon 6 series CPUs, featuring Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest SKUs. The slide reveals that Intel is massively increasing core counts with its two...

Acer launches two new AMD Radeon GPUs — Predator Bitfrost Radeon RX 7900 GRE arrives with an oversized cooler
Acer has introduced two custom Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics cards with factory-overclocked graphics processors and enhanced power supply circuitry for additional overclocking potential. While the Predator Bifrost Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC and the Nitro Radeon RX 7900 GRE...

SCSI isn’t dead yet — new SSD for old or obsolete systems is a boon for retro computing fans
Solid State Disks Ltd (SSDL) has released a new storage product for industries and individuals that refuse to let go of their SCSI storage-based systems. The new SCSIFlash-Fast is a 3.5-inch form factor drop-in replacement drive that can take the place of any...

Raspberry Pi 5 squares off against a scrawny Intel CPU — Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N chip proves to be a strong competitor
It's no secret that we at Tom's Hardware are over the moon about everything Raspberry Pi, mainly the new Raspberry Pi 5. But if you're unsure whether you want one for yourself, it helps to know how it compares against other machines on the market. Today, we've got a...

GIGABYTE Unveils Two Stylish White Motherboards
GIGABYTE Technology, a leading global powerhouse in motherboards, graphics cards, and cutting-edge hardware solutions, proudly unveils its latest creations: the Z790 AORUS PRO X and the B760M AORUS ELITE X AX. These masterpieces are meticulously engineered to not only...

Turkey Personal Computers Pc Market
Turkey Personal Computers Pc Market Turkey personal computer (PC) market has seen significant growth over the past few years. The country is now one of the top five European markets for PC sales and accounted for 10% of total European PC shipments in 2019. In 2020,...