Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
22 February 2025 @ 5:16 pm
AMD will announce the highly anticipated Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards on February 28, seven days from now, at 8 AM ET via its YouTube channel.
How to Create a 3D Printing Timelapse
22 February 2025 @ 5:00 pm
With the right tools and software, you can capture your 3D prints growing layer by layer, condensing minutes or hours of printing into a video that is just a few seconds.
2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is $99 at Newegg and comes with a free 32GB flash drive
22 February 2025 @ 4:24 pm
The TeamGroup MP44L 2TB SSD is now available at Newegg for $99 instead of its usual price of $139.
PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 'helper' to enable full performance
22 February 2025 @ 3:48 pm
As Nvidia has dropped support for PhysX in legacy games on its RTX 50 GPUs, a Redditor has bought a separate RTX 3050 as a dedicated PhysX card.
Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected
22 February 2025 @ 2:55 pm
Used Seagate's IronWolf Pro HDDs are also sold as new.
Ionic Wind explores ionized air for cooling servers, claims a 60% cost reduction
22 February 2025 @ 2:41 pm
Ionic Wind Technologies is experimenting with solid-state ionized air cooling that can simplify the cooling of data centers.
Nvidia explains the missing ROPs — defective silicon in 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs
22 February 2025 @ 2:32 pm
Nvidia says that a few RTX 5090 / 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs shipped with defective ROPs, telling affected users to contact the manufacturer for a replacement.
Chinese chipmaker unveils Optane-like storage class memory
22 February 2025 @ 2:32 pm
Numemory has 64Gb and 128Gb storage class memory devices with industry-standard NAND interface that could be used for SSDs, expensive SSDs.
Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard
22 February 2025 @ 2:12 pm
A Redditor has shared a story claiming that the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 'caught on fire' with images of the damage.
ASE developing square packaging substrate tech to replace round wafers
22 February 2025 @ 2:06 pm
ASE to explore panel level packaging ahead of possible switching to glass substrates.