New alleged evidence (via Harukaze5719 ) has emerged showing that it may be possible to get AMD's Ryzen 5000 (codename Vermeer) processors to work on older 300-series motherboards. Currently, only 500-series and certain 400-series motherboards officially support the new Zen
Ryzen 9 5900X Spotted Running On A Budget ASRock A320 Motherboard

XPS 13 2-in-1 9310 Review: Great Output, Lackluster Input
Our Verdict
Under the hood, Dell’s Tiger Lake update to its XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible makes it the best iteration of the line yet. But an unreasonably shallow keyboard makes using it as a laptop a chore.
For
- Strong performance
- Bright screen
- Clear audio
Against
- Low keyboard travel
- Few ports
- Not upgradeable
Dell’s latest iteration on the XPS 13 2-in-1 brings Tiger Lake to this popular line of convertibles, complete with Intel Evo certification that promises a better mobile experience. That

Scalpers Strike Again, Ryzen 5000 Processors Impossible to Find In stock

Ryzen 5000 is the buzz of the month with its impressive performance and crazy gaming potential, and seemingly everyone wants to get a slice of the Zen 3 pie with the new processors going on sale today. Unfortunately, scalpers have once again stolen the show and bought as much volume as they can, and availability for any Ryzen 5000 series CPUs is almost impossible to find.
The scalpers are again, using eBay as their base of operations and have pushed prices of
Sapphire Readies Custom Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT

Sapphire Technology has posted a teaser of its upcoming custom Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. The board is equipped with a rather remarkable cooling system that promises to enable higher-than-AMD-recommended frequencies out-of-box as well as some additional overclocking potential.
Since AMD designed a rather compelling triple-fan cooling system for its Big Navi-based family , many graphics card vendors — Sapphire included — decided to go with reference coolers and cards with their
Arm Looks To Laptops: Cortex-A78C Processor for PCs Announced

Arm has been addressing devices above and beyond portables for a while now. Today the company has offerings for autonomous vehicles, communications, edge computing, and all kinds of smartphones and tablets. Yet, the company left the emerging market of Windows on Arm laptops to Qualcomm's Snapdragon. Not for long though as this week Arm introduced its own processor for laptops, the Cortex-A78C.
The Arm Cortex-A78C is built on the foundation of the Cortex
AMD Reaches Highest CPU Market Share Since 2007, Q3 2020 Report (Updated)

AMD shared the recent Mercury Research CPU market share results, giving us some insight into its gains in the third quarter of 2020. The headline news is that AMD has reached its highest overall market share since 2007 and has its highest desktop PC share since 2013. In terms of the client x86 market, AMD took its highest amount of share since Q2 2011.
The report comes on the heels of AMD'
Intel Rocket Lake, Alder Lake CPU Photos Leaked Online

Alleged photographs (via VideoCardz ) of Intel's Rocket Lake and Alder Lake desktop processors are making their way around the hardware world. As this is a leak, it is best to treat the photographs with a healthy dose of skepticism until more information comes to light. The chips may be early engineering samples, but their presence in the wild may hint at Intel's urgency to unleash the new processors to fend of AMD's Ryzen 50
ASRock Sticks With AMD Reference Design for New Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT Cards

ASRock has just revealed its first RX 6000-series graphics cards based on AMD's RDNA2 architecture called the ASRock RX 6800 and ASRock RX 6800 XT -- no fancy names for these cards. ASRock's RX 6800 and 6800 XT are not custom-made but are instead designed around AMD's reference specifications. So far, the company has yet to reveal any custom-designed variants.
This
Gigabyte Introduces Waterforce Family of Watercooled RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs

Gigabyte announced today new liquid-cooled RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Ampere graphics cards. Meet the Aorus RTX 3090 and 3080 Xtreme Waterforce WB, (which stands for Water Block), and Aorus RTX 3090 and 3080 Xtreme Waterforce AIO with a 240mm radiator.
Aorus RTX 3090 and 3080 Xtreme Waterforce WB
Checking out Gigabyte's waterblock solution, the cards
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD Only $54 at Newegg

Black Friday is inching closer, soon to be followed by one of our favorite sales: Cyber Monday. Despite having less than a month to go, you can already find good deals on computer hardware and accessories. We're helping make sense of it all by compiling a page full of the best deals on tech we can find.
We also have pages dedicated to specific hardware like deals on SSDs . Today we're sharing an awesome deal on the Samsung 860 EVO.