Samsung 870 EVO Incoming? New SATA Drive Likely Landing Soon

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German publication has WinFuture reported that Samsung is revamping and reviving the company's EVO series of SSDs. The South Korean giant is on the verge of announcing the new Samsung 870 EVO lineup.

The Samsung 870 EVO, which is reportedly listed at several European and North American retailers, will arrive in the common 2.5-inch form factor and rely on the standard SATA III interface. It's unclear if Samsung will offer the SSD

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Best Razer Deals 2021

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The new year is upon us. While we’ve been keeping track of the best tech deals in general as well as getting more specific with pages like the best laptop deals , sometimes it’s worth getting even more granular.

Well-known manufacturers behind some of the best laptops , best mice , and the like also like to put out their own deals initiatives and holiday gift guides as we approach the end of the year. That makes this a great time to look for deals

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Best Samsung SSD Deals

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When it comes to the SSD market, there's Samsung, and then there's everybody else. While there are dozens of SSD brands, many of which make drives that appear on our best SSDs list, for many shoppers only a Samsung SSD will do. Perhaps that's because, as one of the leading

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Best ThinkPad X1 Carbon Deals 2021: From $799

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The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a favorite among mainstream productivity consumers and business users, thanks to its lightweight design, amazing keyboard, and long battery life. As we enter holiday deals season (yes, it’s a season now), we’re eagerly watching deals on one of the best ultrabooks you can buy.

That’s why we’re making a page dedicated to deals on the two newest ThinkPad X1 Carbon models, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 and

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Where to Buy Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800XT, RX 6900XT

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The first three entries in AMD’s Big Navi line of graphics cards are finally out, meaning that there’s now a trio of worthy contenders to Nvidia’s RTX throne. We spoke highly about both the now-released RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT in our review for these cards, praising their price-to-power ratio and their attempt to snag the best GPU crown for Team Red. Our RX 6900 XT review ,

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Intel Confirms On-Package HBM Memory Support for Sapphire Rapids

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In a document released a couple of days before the New Year, Intel confirmed that its upcoming Xeon Scalable processors based on the Sapphire Rapids microarchitecture would support on-package HBM memory. A memory subsystem featuring HBM will significantly increase the bandwidth available to the CPU compared to a subsystem that uses conventional types of memory, like DDR4 or DDR5, meaning that future CPUs could resemble today's GPUs with a healthy amount of HBM memory riding on the same package.

HBM Support Confirmed

Rumors

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Intel Alder Lake PCIe 5.0 Configuration Reportedly Detailed In Coreboot

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Alder Lake won't just be the first to bring an x86 hybrid architecture to desktops; the processors have also been pegged to leverage the high-velocity PCIe 5.0 interface. Coreboot (via Komachi_Ensaka ), an open-source substitute for UEFI, seems to contain valuable information on the potential PCIe configuration that we could see on Alder Lake.

Early rumors claimed that the 12th Generation Alder Lake processors would support both the PCIe 5.0 and PCIe


Play Pokemon Sword on the Web, Powered By Raspberry Pi

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Surrogate.tv has developed a truly interesting way to play Pokemon Sword, with no Nintendo Switch or game purchase required. Using a Raspberry Pi 4 , which is connected to a Nintendo Switch in the company's office in Finland, the game is now available on the web, though users must line up and take 60-second turns.

It's fun to watch and participate in the chat with other users as the group tries to go through this role-playing

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This Raspberry Pi Project Adds HDMI Output to an Amiga 500

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We're long time fans of the Amiga franchise here at Tom's Hardware and can't ignore our biases when it comes to awesome Raspberry Pi crossover projects—like this HDMI hack for the Amiga 500, created by a maker known as Reinhard Grafl.

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Gigabyte Confirms Avalanche of 20GB Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti, 12 GB RTX 3060 Cards

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Inadvertently, Gigabyte may just have confirmed the existence of not only a 20 GB RTX 3080 Ti but also a 12 GB RTX 3060 card. That may not sound like a big deal at face value, but if you ask me, it's something that's certainly worth getting excited about.

The information comes from a new EEC listing -- one that covers a plethora of cards. Details are scarce at this time, but the following