MSI's All-AMD Alpha 15 Gaming Laptop Is $200 off

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MSI’s Alpha 15 gaming laptop is $100 off at Newegg with an additional $100 rebate bringing the total price down from the usual $999 to $799.

The model on sales features 8GB of RAM and a 120 Hz display, but Newegg is also selling the computer’s 16GB/144 Hz model for $100 off right now as well, although the rebate no longer applies

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PowerColor Quietly Prepares a Radeon RX 5600 XT for SFF Lovers

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A new PowerColor graphics card has quietly hit pre-order. As spotted by German tech publication ComputerBase , the PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT ITX graphics card packs the Navi 10 silicon in a tight package.

The new Radeon RX 5600 XT ITX, which sports the AXRX 5600XT ITX 6GBD6-2DH part number, features a dual-slot design. The

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Intel and Razer Detail What They're Doing to Fight Coronavirus

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Late last month, Razer and Intel both announced that they were planning to donate at least one million units of protective personal equipment, or PPE, to fight the coronavirus pandemic, although with different approaches. While Razer began work on converting its factories to produce masks, Intel announced that the company was looking to source existing masks from its factory stock and emergency supplies.

Now, after talking to both New York electronics manufacturer Adafruit and New Jersey boutique PC vendor Maingear about how those companies are adapting

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Adata's First Gaming Laptop Hits Shelves: XPG Xenia Sports a Familiar Look

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At CES 2020 in January, Adata announced plans to expand into new markets, namely gaming desktops , gaming laptops and gaming monitors . This week, Adata seemingly made good on some of that promise with the official release of its XPG Xenia gaming laptops in the U.S., Mexico and Taiwan.

The XPG Xenia taps an Intel Core i7 Coffee Lake CPU, your choice of one of two Nvidia GeForce GPUs and Adata's own XPG SSD and RAM packed into

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WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

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News emerged last week that WD , Seagate and Toshiba are all shipping hard drives using Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), a slower form of HDD technology that can result in reduced performance in some types of workloads, but without disclosing that critical bit of information in marketing materials or specification sheets. The backlash has been swift, and now WD is striking a conciliatory tone with its customers in an update to its blog. The company also divulged that it is also shipping SMR technology in some of


Turing Pi Cluster Board Lets You Make a Raspberry Pi Server Rack

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The Turing Pi cluster board is officially available for preorder from Turing Machines Inc. This Mini-ITX-sized motherboard can support up to seven Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, essentially creating a server rack.

The Turing Pi board has support for the Kubernetes environment. It's ideal for things like machine learning, cloud environments, application testing and serverless stacks. The board features a variety of ports, including an audio jack, HDMI port and a 1 Gbps Ethernet port. It uses

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Researchers Turn AMD Radeon GPU Into a Radio Transmitter to Steal Data

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In a reminder that no computing device is truly safe from prying eyes, a researcher at security firm Duo recently used an AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 video card as a radio transmitter to transmit data, all without physically modifying the hardware. This allowed him to receive the data through a wall 50 feet away, thus stealing data from an air-gapped PC. The researcher accomplished the feat by manipulating the graphics card's shader clock rates to become a tunable radio device


Overclocked AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Beats Intel Core i7-7700K in Geekbench

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The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100 broke cover two days ago, but the pair of quad- core Ryzen chips are already flexing their Zen 2 muscles on Geekbench.

It took a while for AMD to bring out some budget-oriented Zen 2 offerings; however, the Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100 don't disappoint. Leveraging TSMC's 7nm

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Report: Apple's 5nm Arm-Based Macs Will Feature 12 Cores, Launch 2021

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This isn't the first time we're hearing this rumor, but Bloomberg reported today that Apple will be launching Macs with CPUs of its own design in 2021. The designs are said to be based on TSMC's 5nm process and feature up to 12 processing cores .

We've heard this rumor numerous times before, with the most recent time coming from from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo .

According to Bloomberg's unnamed sources, Apple is


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Intel's Ponte Vecchio Xe Graphics Card Shows Up in Add-In Card Form Factor

As spotted by @momomo_us , Intel is preparing its Ponte Vecchio graphics cards for shipment in a reference validation platform (RVP) , which are systems used by vendors to begin optimizing hardware and software. According to the listing at the Eurasian Economic Commission, the graphics cards come in three flavors and a standard AIC form factor.

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