The first benchmark results for Qualcomm's 3rd Generation Snapdragon 8cx system-on-chip ( SoC ) for always-connected PCs has been posted to the Geekbench 5 database. The numbers show the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 beating its predecessors and even competing with Intel's latest 11th Gen Core i7 "Tiger Lake" mobile chip in multi-threaded workloads.

Qualcomm has been fairly consistent in updating its Snapdragon 8cx family of SoCs for notebooks annually. This

When it comes to the best SSDs for your PC build, Samsung’s EVO line ranks highly amongst the top choices, thanks to its products' reliable architecture, strong encryption and wide variety of capacities. In fact, as you can read in our Samsung 870 EVO SATA review , we even gave it our Editor’s Choice award.

And now you can get an EVO SSD for cheap, courtesy of a deep price cut across a lot of Samsung SSDs over on Amazon

Nvidia's A100 accelerator, which is based on the GA100 silicon, might not be hitting the sales numbers the company hoped for--or perhaps the company just thinks there's room for bigger sales in a different market. Hardware leaker kopite7kimi , who has a solid track record with Ampere leaks, broke the news that Nvidia is allegedly turning the A100 into a cryptocurrency powerhouse.

Obviously, the Ampere

The Aorus RX 6700XT Elite is Gigabyte's new flagship model for the newly released RX 6700XT GPU from AMD. The Elite is equipped with a triple-fan cooling system, ring RGB lighting behind the fans, and is the largest 6700XT you can buy from Gigabyte at this time. Perrhaps this card will help secure a spot for the 6700XT to be one of the best graphics cards of 202

Because it's hard to get a modern graphics card, some suppliers are now trying to meet demand for entry-level options by re-launching older products. Earlier this month we reported that Japanese vendor Kuroutoshikou decided to re-start sales of its GeForce GTX 1050 Ti boards. This past weekend the card made it into retail, but its price is far from what we usually consider an entry-level. The unit costs ¥22,800

Just because you're stuck at home doesn't mean you can't play games with your friends—and I don't just mean through Steam! Maker Lewis from DIY Machines has created a smart chessboard with the help of a Raspberry Pi . This board allows you to play both online or in single-player mode against a computer opponent hosted on the Pi.

Some of the best Raspberry Pi projects are ones you can play with at home and Lewis was

Apple could release an iMac featuring its own chip sooner rather than later. MacRumors reported that several configurations of the all-in-one computer have been removed from the company’s website, which suggests that they have been discontinued.

MacRumors said the 512GB and 1TB SSD options have disappeared from the 21.5-inch iMac’s page on the Apple website. Those options were previously greyed out, so there was a fair chance they would return, but

HP announced new AMD and Intel convertibles today, the first of which upgrades the company’s AMD convertibles to Ryzen 5000U chips and the latter of which comes with a new discrete graphics option and plenty of utility software. Granted, that discrete GPU isn’t gaming-tier. Also, if you want something a bit larger and just a touch more powerful, there’s also a new, Intel-based Envy 17 coming out with the same GPU options

Intel today announced that it plans to reveal more information about its upcoming Ice Lake server chips at the “How Wonderful Gets Done 2021” event on April 6.

The company said it plans to launch the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors as well as “the latest additions to Intel’s hardware and software portfolio targeting data centers, 5G networks, and intelligent edge infrastructure” during the event.

Intel’s revealed precious little about Ice Lake. It offered some details