Consoles are a great way to get into gaming without dealing with the nuances of Windows. Even those well-versed with Microsoft's OS will appreciate the lack of overhead that tightly-integrated machines like the PS5 bring to the table. They make gaming accessible for many, offering genuinely solid performance and visuals at great prices. Those prices are about to get even more competitive, as Sony has decided to slash $100 off every PS5 variant this Black Friday

The Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB is genuinely one of the largest and fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market, and it's available now for just $749.99. Plus, with Black Friday savings of $250, you can use that extra cash to give your PC an even more impressive upgrade.

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If you have or plan to build an overpowered battle station equipped with one of the best gaming GPUs, then you definitely need a high-end gaming monitor to complement it. However, these displays tend to be on the pricey side, meaning getting one of these can eat into your budget for your PC.

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Intel faces serious threat in the laptop market, not just from its nemesis AMD but also Qualcomm and Apple, thanks to the arrival of high-performance, highly efficient ARM cores that have forced the chipmaker to up every part of its game to compete. With 50% more oomph and 30% less power draw, the Core Ultra 3-series 'Panther Lake' processor is a robust response to those rivals — and at a financial event on Tuesday

Dell and HP have begun to ship some of their PCs with disabled HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding, potentially in a bid to avoid paying royalties to patent holders, reports Ars Technica . The majority of PCs that come with disabled HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding capability are business-oriented entry-level or mainstream machines, whereas premium offerings with high-quality displays come with all the features activated.

Dell and HP confirmed to Ars Technica that

While GPUs are uncharacteristically affordable right now, selling even below MSRP in some cases, it's important to shine a light on the best CPUs out there as well. They may not be as important at higher resolutions, but without a flagship processor teaming up with your high-end graphics card, you run the risk of being bottlenecked. That's why we've spotted a deal on literally the best gaming CPU in the world: the Ryzen 7 980

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has reportedly told Nvidia employees in a leaked all-hands meeting that “the market did not appreciate” the AI giant despite the company’s record-breaking quarter , according to Business Insider. The company’s stock price slid from around $195 to a low of $180 just one day after it released its quarterly earnings, which is a surprise given Nvidia’s performance. This meant that its market capitalization dropped from its all