Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2020

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 is almost upon us. The annual shopping event, where products reach hit discounts, is set to run from Tuesday, October 13th to Wednesday October 14th this year. But you don’t even need to wait until those days to find great Prime Day deals on laptops, both from Amazon.com and other retailers.

Though the official “Prime Day” is only two days long and doesn’t start for

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ASRock Unleashes Tiger Lake-Powered Mini-STX Motherboards

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ASRock Industrial Computer has taken the veils off the new lineup of Mini-STX motherboards that are powered by Intel's 11th Generation Tiger Lake chips.

The STX-1500 comes in a Mini-STX form factor, meaning the motherboard measures 5.5 x 5.8 inches. ASRock sells the motherboard in three flavors. The STX-1500P is outfitted with the Core i7-11

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Tested: Does Ampere Make Password Crackers Useful?

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If you've ever locked yourself outside of your house or apartment before, you probably know the pain, cost and time associated with hiring a lockpicker to help you get back in. Similarly, if you've ever locked yourself out of an important file, you might know the even greater cost and time of using a password recovery program to regain access to it.

Also called Password crackers, these 100% totally only ever used for legitimate purposes programs aren


Deepfake Yourself with Nvidia Maxine's Video Chat Tools

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It's October now, which means it's mask season. Or, it would be if this whole year weren't mask season. At any rate, it seems that Nvidia's getting in on the holiday cheer with its newly announced Nvidia Maxine video streaming platform , which (among other features) essentially lets you video chat while wearing a deepfake style mask of...yourself. Maybe the result wasn't intended to be spooky, but looking at Nvidia'


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Intel Alder Lake-S CPU Reportedly Surfaces With 16 Cores, 32 Threads

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Hardware sleuth @Tum_Apisak has discovered benchmark submissions for one of Intel's future Alder Lake-S processors. The new breed of hybrid chips will make their way to the market sometime in 2021.

Alder Lake-S is a new microarchitecture and a hybrid one, so SiSoftware might not properly detect the processor. There's plenty of evidence of that: The Alder Lake-S specimen reportedly arrives with 16 cores and 32 threads, but the software


Grab This 32-inch 1440p 144Hz FreeSync Monitor for $240

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Sometimes the fancy extras in the best gaming monitors just get in the way. Sometimes, you just want a big display with a high refresh rate, and not to worry about 4K , curves and HDR . It also helps when the display comes at a great price. That's why we're putting a spotlight on the Westinghouse WM32DX9019m which is currently just $239.99 (down from $300)

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AMD's Infinity Cache May Solve Big Navi's Rumored Mediocre Memory Bandwidth

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AMD (via @momomo_us ) has trademarked the term "AMD Infinity Cache." The filing, which is on the Justia Trademarks website, applies to both the chipmaker's processor and graphics cards. In fact, the description of the trademark is so broad that it encompasses just about every type of silicon that AMD manufactures.

But the common consensus is that the trademark correlates with AMD's pending Big Navi launch. Memory bandwidth, among other aspects, is one of the


Nvidia CEO: GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 Shortages To Last Until 2021

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If you thought it would become easier to purchase an Nvidia RTX 3080 or 3090 by the end of the year, you might be wrong. And it doesn't look good for the RTX 3070, either. Today Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed that the company expects the crushing shortages of RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards to persist through the end of 2020, saying:

"I believe that demand

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Phanteks Eclipse P300 Case Now $49.99

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If you're planning to build a new PC (perhaps one of the best PC builds ), you'll need a case for it. With early Prime Day hardware deals already upon us, we've found a great deal on an affordable chassis.

With clean and simple looks, the Phanteks Eclipse P300 tempered glass case is a great case for your build. Now for only $49.99 after rebate, and with free shipping via Newegg.

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Nvidia Replaces Quadro Line with RTX A6000 and RTX A40

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Nvidia Quadro is dead, long live Nvidia Quadro. Following in the footsteps of the Nvidia A100 that replaces the previous generation Tesla V100, and the Nvidia RTX 3090 , which we called the "heir to the Titan throne" in our review, Nvidia today announced two new graphics cards that have the power of the workstation-focused Quadro line, but not the branding. These are the Nvidia RTX A6000 and Nvidia RTX A

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