AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC — affordable gaming CPU seemingly exclusive to retailer for now
This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.
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Category: Hardware & Gear
Pay just $1299 for the MSI Vector 16 with RTX 5070 Ti graphics and 240Hz QHD screen in this early Black Friday deal — superb specs for such a well-priced gaming laptop
Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal.
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Intel’s CTO and AI chief leaves for OpenAI after just seven months in role — follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack
Intel’s Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company’s compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-T…
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Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks — single-thread Dhrystone performance charted across 25 systems released between 1976 and 2023
Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 2…
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Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge
An LED testing ‘device’ which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition
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