eBay Pricing for All GPUs Continues to Rise Due to Mining (Updated)

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Finding the best graphics card at anything approaching reasonable pricing has become increasingly difficult. Just about everything we've tested in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is sold out unless you go to eBay, but current eBay prices will take your breath away. If you thought things were bad before, they're apparently getting even worse. No doubt, a lot of this is due to the recent uptick in Ethereum mining's profitability on GPUs , compounded by component shortages, and it

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Fire Hazard Leads NZXT to Officially Recall the H1 Case in the US and Canada

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Friday that NZXT has officially recalled its H1 case because of a design flaw that posed a fire hazard. According to the announcement, NZXT received 11 reports of "circuit boards overheating or catching fire worldwide, six of which occurred in the U.S."

NZXT released the affected case in February 2020. The CPSC said approximately 32,000 units were sold in


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842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020

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Being the most popular microprocessor architecture, Arm powers tens of billions of devices sold every year. The company says that in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, the Arm ecosystem shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, which works out to an amazing production rate of 842 chips per second . This means that Arm outsells all other popular CPU instruction set architectures — x86, ARC, Power, and MIPS — combined.

6.7 Billion

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Intel Snipes at Apple in New 'Go PC' Ads

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Do you remember the Mac vs PC commercials from the mid-2000s? While Microsoft and Apple may have become increasingly buddy-buddy since then, with Windows working on Mac and Mac ceding basic productivity app dominance to Microsoft Office, that doesn’t mean the war between Mac and PC isn’t still raging. The fighters are just different.

Intel's new ad campaign is taking aim at Apple by promoting PC heavily, a continuation of the company’s


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Leaked Rocket Lake Reviews Hint That AMD Has Nothing To Worry About

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Intel's 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S processors aren't in stores yet, but engineering and qualification samples of the chips are evidently going around the black market. Romanian news outlet Lab501 and a Chinese YouTuber have released early reviews of the Core i7-11700K and Core i9-11900K, respectively. Since these are not retail samples, we recommend caution when approaching the results.

By now,


WD My Passport SSD Review: Sleek, Slim, and Secure Storage

Our Verdict

WD’s My Passport SSD is not the fastest portable drive with speeds of up to 10 Gbps, but it also comes with full disk encryption support that secures your precious files and also comes backed by a 5-year warranty.

For

  • Attractive aesthetics and color options
  • Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
  • Appealing thin and light design
  • USB Type-C adapter
  • 5-year warranty

Against

  • Lacks an activity light
  • DRAMless architecture
  • Flimsy
  • Very short cable
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Best Mining GPUs Benchmarked and Ranked

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What are the best mining GPUs, and is it worth getting into the whole cryptocurrency craze? Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are making headlines again; prices and mining profitability are way up compared to the last couple of years. Everyone who didn't start mining last time is kicking themselves for their lack of foresight. Not surprisingly, the best graphics cards and those chips at the top of our GPU benchmarks hierarchy end up being very good options for mining as well. How good

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How to Use a Buzzer to Play Music with Raspberry Pi Pico

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Whether you’re building a game that beeps when you lose a turn, an alarm clock that wakes you up or just a cute display that plays 8-bit music, a low-cost piezo buzzer can be a great part of your Raspberry Pi Pico project. The extremely-cheap buzzers -- you can often find them for less than $1 apiece -- are dead-simple to program in MicroPython and can even vary the frequency to produce musical notes.

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Maker's Raspberry Pi Build Adds Swivel Screen With Recycled ThinkPad Hinge

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We've seen some cool Raspberry Pi desktop rigs, but this one stands out and swivels! Created by a maker known as Sleepless_Engineer, this project uses an old swivel hinge recycled from a Lenovo ThinkPad to create an adjustable screen.

Sleepless_Engineer's system stores a Raspberry Pi 4 and screen inside a custom, 3D-printed shell. To fit everything inside, the USB and Ethernet ports had to be resoldered from the Raspberry Pi. This allowed additional

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PS5 Scalpers Explain How They Can Sleep at Night

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Playstation 5 scalpers are mad that people don’t like them, according to recent interviews they had with Forbes writer Janhoi McGregor, and it’s hilarious. The writer recently spoke to several British scalpers who were trying to recover their public image, probably in light of recent efforts from UK legislators to ban scalping , which gives us not only only a rare look inside the scalper mindset, but also a look into how they operate.

Scalping has been a thorn in the side of anyone