Designed for extreme overclocking, EVGA's Kingpin edition graphics cards are arguably among the most complex and impressive pieces of hardware available today. Unfortunately, these cards are only sold to EVGA's Elite Members , and reviews of KPE products are rare, so very few people get to see these boards up close, making a review of the GeForce RTX 3090 Kingpin published by the South Korean Quasar Zone website (via @harukaze5719 ) even more valuable for hardware

Apple’s currently in your pocket with its phones, on your wrist with its watches, and thanks to a new report from The Information , we now know that it’s probably going to be on your heads soon too with its first VR headset- assuming you can afford it. Recent speculation about an ultra high-end Apple VR headset started just a few weeks ago thanks to Bloomberg , but The Information ’s new report hints at a bevy of cutting-edge features,

MSI this week officially launched its top-of-the-range AMD-based graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio 16G, which it showcased first in late December . The board uses a custom design and comes with a massive cooling system in a bid to maximize its overclocking potential. To feed the beast, its owner will need a PSU that will deliver it up to 300W of power to the board.

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One would think that being called a “swiss army knife” would be the highest compliment a tool or utility could aspire to. Yet, the expression is oddly insufficient when describing PDFtk, an incredibly versatile utility that can be used to manipulate PDF files in myriad ways. According to its man page, if PDF is electronic paper, then PDFtk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a radical change from previous Pis, because it’s not a Linux computer, but a a microcontroller board like Arduino . The biggest selling points of the Raspberry Pi Pico are the price, $4 and the new RP2040 chip which provides ample power for embedded projects and enables users of any age or ability to learn coding and electronics. If you have a Windows, Apple, Linux computer or even a different Raspberry Pi,

7-segment displays, the kind found on old digital alarm clocks, can be great for Raspberry Pi projects, including those you make with Raspberry Pi Pico. You can use a 7-segment display to keep score in a game, show sensor data like temperature or distance numbers or to keep track of time. You can even show some letters.

There are many kinds of 7-segment displays on the market and they vary not only based on the number of digits

It's still almost impossible to buy an RTX 3080 GPU on its own. But that doesn't mean you can't get your hands on them, or even that you need to pay more than MSRP price for one. If you're willing to buy a pre-built PC , you can snag up the best graphics card on the market right now. And thanks to a new deal on the HP Omen 30L Desktop,

Valve will potentially release a public beta for a Chinese-specific version of Steam starting on February 9th, according to Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad, who specializes in the Asian and especially Chinese game industries. This would be the culmination of efforts Valve began in 2018 alongside Chinese developer Perfect World and would see the fulfillment of a promise the company made earlier this January to launch Steam China in 2021.

The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the fourth quarter of 2020, with the headline news being that Intel has clawed back share from AMD in the desktop PC market for the first time in three years. Intel also stopped its slide in the notebook PC segment, gaining share for as far as our records go back (2018). AMD also lost share in the overall x86 market during the quarter, but notched a