We've seen a lot of great deals and sales on SSDs in recent months; however, larger forces, like tariffs and geopolitical issues, threaten to push prices higher in the coming months. In fact, it appears that shortages driven by AI data centers could persist for the coming decade. That means prices will go up significantly in the near future. However, now it's Black Friday, and time to find that winning SSD deal.

Luckily, for now

Building a PC is a great experience. We sit there with a spreadsheet and multiple browser tabs, poring over the best CPUs, the best GPUs , PC cases , RAM deals, and many more components.

The package arrives, and we are excitedly tearing into the boxes, putting the parts on the table, and we are ready to build!

Nvidia released a hotfix driver recently that fixes performance issues in games, as a result of a buggy cumulative update Microsoft released for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. A few X posters, including Sebastian Castellanos, have published benchmark results showing almost a 50% performance boost in games from the new Nvidia hotfix driver in some titles.

The performance issues from Microsoft's latest update are likely far more egregious than most people were expecting. Sabastian saw a whopping

Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPUs, while unparalleled in performance, are also at the top of the leaderboard when it comes to burning down involuntarily . Asus — arguably the most prominent AIB partner for Nvidia — has dared to step into the ring and present something even more adventurous: The ROG Matrix RTX 5090 , powered by a custom PCB capable of consuming up to 800W through its special firmware. Now that

A computing enthusiast unearthed a 34-year-old Apple Mac bug that should have crippled the system at startup, but it never did, thanks to an undocumented feature in the Motorola CPU that quietly neutralized the flaw. Downtown Doug Brown discovered this Mac Classic II ROM code wrinkle after witnessing a MAME-emulated system crash (in 32-bit mode) that the original hardware would not (h/t PC Gamer ). We tend to agree that “this bug in

Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It was the software company’s first commercially released WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer)-driven shell, laying the foundations for the family of shells and operating systems marketed under the Windows brand . However, the operating system faced far superior competition at launch, stifling uptake for about eight years when version 3.X landed.

Running atop of DOS, a

The Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan), in which participants submitted their smallest memory cards, has been a tightly run race, but now the results are in. The smallest memory card found by the retro-computer-loving followers of X68PRO-HD on X was a 0.5MB SmartMedia card. While entrants such as the 1.44MB Flash FDD stick and Casio 2KB battery-backed RAM card didn’t make the cut (they

A WWII Enigma machine with four rotors was sold at auction earlier this week, achieving double its estimated price. Christie’s in Paris said the auction lot was “one of the rarest and hardest Enigma machines to decipher” (machine translation).

This auction will have drawn in WWII and computer enthusiast collectors due to this sample being fully operational , complete with lead-acid batteries. It is also thought to be one of only eight working