TechSpot PC Buying Guide: 1H 2023
How has the PC market evolved in the past few months for builders and gamers alike? Our PC Buying Guide includes four recommended component lists, meant for different budgets and purposes.
Microsoft working on "Athena" silicon to power AI
A project that started in 2019 may save the Redmond giant a lot of time and money
CHIPS Act requirements are putting a damper on China's chipmaking ambitions
American companies that operate in China are also affected
AMD Ryzen 7040 'Phoenix' laptops tipped to launch in late April
AMD announced its Phoenix APU lineup at CES 2023 in January
8GB VRAM vs. 16GB VRAM: RTX 3070 vs. Radeon 6800
PC gamers have been hearing a lot about VRAM as of late, a topic that has stirred up a ton of controversy. Here's a new GPU shootout for testing VRAM usage in recently released games.
Alleged engineering sample of AMD's Genoa-X CPU with over a gigabyte of cache spotted online
AMD's Epyc Genoa-X CPUs will usher in the gigabyte L3 cache era
This PCIe card houses 21 M.2 SSDs for up to 168 terabytes of blazing-fast storage
When you get overwhelmed by the need for speed
How To Measure Your PC's Power Consumption
Modern computers have components that require lots of power and given that this all costs money, here's our guide to measuring how much energy your PC uses.
How to sell a CPU
Editor's take: Much of the focus in semiconductors is on chip performance, and so for many outside the process it can be mystifying why sometimes a "better" chip loses out to a "weaker" chip. To name just one example, Intel still sells a lot of server CPUs despite their poor comparison with the latest AMD or Arm offerings.
The ultrafast Gigabyte Aorus 10000 Gen5 SSD gets reviewed
Gigabytes' Aorus 10000 is the first PCIe 5.0 SSD and, as expected, the speeds are nothing less than amazing. You'll need the latest hardware to take advantage of it though, and look at that gargantuan passive heatsink.
Nvidia RTX 4070 appears to be readily available, AMD responds with sweet Radeon 6800 deals
GPU availability is much improved, AMD deals offer more VRAM for less money
PolyKybd is a mechanical keyboard with tiny OLED keycaps for easy customization
A DIY kit could sell for about $200
Seagate unveils new 22TB IronWolf Pro hard drive at NAB conference
Its direct rival is Western Digital's Red Pro 22TB drive
Older AMD Radeon flagship GPU gets price cut just as Nvidia RTX 4070 arrives
Also, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is $539 with a free game
Intel ties up with Arm to build chips for fabless semiconductor companies
The deal could once again help Intel make processors for Apple
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Review: $600 Mid-Range is Here
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 release has been highly anticipated for its potential of bringing the newer generation to a new low price point and we're happy to report that in that sense it does deliver.
Updated six-screen workstation packs 192 cores, 384 threads, and 3TB of DDR5
Expect to pay a small fortune
AMD takes aim at Nvidia, highlights the importance of VRAM in modern games
Ahead of the RTX 4070's arrival
In brief: As Nvidia's RTX 4070 is expected to launch tomorrow with 12GB of GDDR6X, AMD has decided now's a good time to take a shot at its rival by pointing out how much memory new games require when played at higher resolutions. Team Red notes that its mid- to high-end cards have more VRAM than Nvidia's equivalents, though some of its benchmark results don't exactly line up with our own.
Intel Meteor Lake CPUs confirmed to launch as the 14th-gen Core lineup
The Meteor Lake lineup is expected to arrive in 2024
Gaming monitor shipments down overall for 2022, expected to recover in 2023
High refresh rates and the Chinese market could improve things
TSMC sees revenues slide for the first time in almost four years
The chipmaker isn't worried and expects weak demand will be a short-lived problem
In Win launches origami-style bendable mini-ITX chassis
Build it from the ground up