These AMD Keycaps Look Awesome, and Someone Should Sell Them

Keycaps are a great way to add some personality. Whether you want your best gaming keyboard's RGB to shine more brightly or want to add a splash of your favorite colors, swapping out your keyboard's original keycaps helps you boast your brand. Now, what if the brand you want to boast about is AMD?

zFrontier , a popular gathering place for mechanical keyboard lovers in China, held a giveaway a couple of weeks ago, where an AMD and PowerColor-themed keycap set was part of the spoils.

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Is $540 off Launch Price

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The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, a 2.9-GHz, 64-core processor that's one of the best CPUs for 3D modelers, is now on sale for $3,449.99 at Amazon . That’s $540.01 off its $3990.00 price when it launched earlier this year, and its lowest price ever, according to CamelCamelCamel .

A competitor to Intel

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Intel Poaches Yet Another AMD GPU Executive: Ali Ibrahim

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For the past 13 years, Ali Ibrahim has worked at AMD as a Senior Fellow, working on cloud and Xbox related projects, among other things. Now, Ibrahim has been poached by Intel, where he has become VP of Platform Architecture and Engineering of discrete GPUs department, as reported by CRN .

"We are thrilled that Ali has joined Intel as Vice President, Platform Architecture and Engineering – dGPUs to be part of the exciting Intel Xe Graphics journey," a


Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives

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Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for not disclosing that several of its hard drives use slower, SMR technology.

We recently reported that Western Digital (WD) was shipping hard drives with SMR technology , a technology that boosts capacity but results in slower hard drives, without listing that fact in marketing materials and product specifications. Further scrutiny found that Toshiba


Adata’s XPG Prime ARGB Extension Cables Review: Stiff RGB Cable Competition

Our Verdict

Adata’s XPG Prime ARGB Extension Cables bring some pretty competition to Lian Li’s Strimer Plus. But their design makes them very inflexible and less versatile than the competition.

For

  • Pretty lights
  • Build feels solid
  • VGA cables separate for GPUs with one power connector

Against

  • Not as flexible or versatile as Strimer Plus
  • Too short for some case installs

Competition is a good thing, especially in areas like RGB accessories where there’s plenty of room for improvement. That’s why we were excited to see Adata was offering

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Which Raspberry Pi Should I Buy?

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The Raspberry Pi has sold 31 million units since it launched in 2012, but if you don't own one yet -- or you need a new one for a particular project -- the choice can be a little bit daunting. When you include legacy models that are still made, there are more than a dozen different Raspberry Pi boards for sale.

Why You Need a Raspberry Pi

Every self-respecting tech geek should own at least one Raspberry Pi . Any

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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU Is a Steal at $167

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AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 processor, along with the stock Wraith Stealth cooler, is now selling for $167 on Amazon. That’s $32 cheaper than its typical $199 price tag and only $4 over its lowest price ever, according to PCPartPicker .

As we noted in our AMD Ryzen 5 3600 review , this 6-core, 12-thread CPU is a fantastic 65W chip, and it

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Raspberry Pi Alternative Uses AMD Ryzen, Radeon Vega Graphics for AI Projects

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Just as The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been busy crafting the Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB) model announced today, another single-board computer maker, Axiomtek, is also at it again with another new single-board computer (SBC). Following Axiomtek's unveiling of the CAPA13R just over a week ago, it's now unwrapped the MIRU130, which targets artificial intelligence applications with the help of an embedded AMD Ryzen APU .

Announced Friday, the


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Questionable Report Says AMD's Ryzen 4000 CPUs Will Be Built on TSMC's 5nm+

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Back in January, news hit that TSMC was investing heavily in its 5nm process , and the latest report from DigiTimes appears to suggest that those efforts will soon pay off.

The report claims that TSMC will push launch volume production of products on its 5nm Plus FinFET process to Q4 2020, and that we can believe. However, the report also claims that AMD's next-generation of CPUs, the Ryzen 4000 Vermeer series that comes with

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GeForce Now Games: Here Are All the Titles Leaving Nvidia's Streaming Service

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Nvidia GeForce Now has been subject to some controversy since the cloud service's debut. The game streaming service makes it possible to play the latest PC games without owning a powerful gaming PC , but at the same time it doesn't look like Nvidia has kept game devs happy. On Wednesday, Nvidia announced that the service has now become opt-in for developers and game studios.

With this approach, GeForce Now has still secured over 2,000 game titles, so