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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme Motherboard review: Flagship value, with minimal sacrifices

Tom's Hardware Verdict

Asus’ Crosshair X870E Extreme offers solid value in the flagship AMD motherboard space. You get the best of the best hardware, along with a solid suite of software. While it’s certainly expensive at around $999, it’s our pick for the best currently available flagship-class boards.

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    Three PCIe 5.0 M.2 sockets

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    5-inch sliding full-color LCD

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Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh emerges with Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — 24-core chip appears on Geekbench, 10% faster than Core Ultra 7 265K

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It seems that Intel might have a few more chips left in its bag of Arrow Lake-S processors, as a brand new SKU has made its way to the cross-platform benchmarking tool Geekbench. First spotted and shared by Benchleaks on X , the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus seems like an enhanced version of the existing Core Ultra 7 265K.

According to the benchmark listing , the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus scored 22,20

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Intel

China wants US semiconductor companies to submit sensitive data as part of probe — 'anti-dumping' investigation requests sales and profit data

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China has launched a raft of new questionnaires for US semiconductor businesses in an effort to discover data on the companies' activities in China, and particularly how their prices, income, and profits differ between native US sales and those in Asian territories, like China, via Bloomberg . Although no companies have been named specifically, the wording in the survey seems set to target major US semiconductor producers like Texas Instruments and Analog Devices.

This may also just be one more salvo

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Asus' 27-inch ROG Strix XG279CNS FHD gaming monitor hits its lowest-ever price of $249 — USB-C connectivity and a blazing fast 380Hz refresh rate

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Today's deal features a fantastic 27-inch gaming monitor with eSports-inspired specifications for fast refresh rates and minimal latency, perfect for helping to land those pixel-perfect headshots. A blazingly fast 380Hz refresh rate and 1080p resolution combine for a screen that any mid-range GPU can power. There's no need for an RTX 5090 to get the most out of this gaming monitor.

You can find the Asus ROG

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MSI MAG A850GLS PCIE5 power supply review

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The MSI MAG A850GLS is offering solid engineering fundamentals with some premium touches. While it delivers reliable power with impressive efficiency characteristics, component selections and certification choices reveal its mainstream positioning within MSI's hierarchy. A competent workhorse that gets the job done without breaking the bank.

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    ATX 3.1 compliance

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    Fully modular design

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    Premium cable design

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    Striking aesthetics

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    Excellent efficiency

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    Good electrical performance

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    Quiet operation

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Catastrophic Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to cost UK economy at least $2.5 billion, according to estimates — 5,000 independent organizations decimated by supply chain fallout

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A new report from cybersecurity body, the Cyber Monitoring Centre, has estimated that the recent hack of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and the fallout that affected its entire supply chain of more than 5,000 independent organizations cost the UK economy as much as £1.9 billion ($2.5 billion), via Reuters . These are just the losses so far, too, with the potential for them to mount further if there were any unexpected

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Next-gen Xbox will be 'very premium, high-end experience', says Xbox President — stoking PC-console hybrid speculation

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Next-gen consoles have been the talk of the town recently, with both Sony and Microsoft starting to put forth their first official teases for what's to come. It's slowly becoming clear that Sony intends to stick to its hardware-focused strategy , while Microsoft wants to continue with the Xbox Play Anywhere program by opening up the platform to be synonymous with gaming at large. Now, Xbox President Sarah Bond's choice words in a new interview have added even

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Nvidia's homegrown memory design is almost standardized and ready for everyone to use — JEDEC says SOCAMM2 compact DRAM module for AI servers boasts higher speeds and broader compatibility

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SOCAMM2 is on track to become the definitive version of the SOCAMM standard very soon. JEDEC has announced that SOCAMM2's design is nearing completion and will take advantage of the same LPDDR5X memory type as its predecessor. Two upgrades will be added to SOCAMM2: an SPD profile (what most might refer to as a "JEDEC profile") and improved LPDDR5X transfer rates of up to 9600 MT/s.

The new memory type will be

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The Bambu Lab P2S is the best 3D Printer you can’t have — 'logistics delays' leave the printers locked out of the US, at least for now

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Bambu Lab launched an excellent “refreshed” version of their popular P1S earlier this week, the P2S, but it's not flying off the shelves. At least, not in the United States, where it is nowhere to be found due to “logistical” issues that likely boil down to tariffs.

The P2S is tantalizingly in stock everywhere else around the globe: Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and the whole

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Open Source LLM

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas AI browser, LLM can browse the internet for you and even complete tasks — initial release for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android to follow soon after

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OpenAI just announced a new AI-powered browser that integrates its ChatGPT LLM right into the app. During a livestream, the company unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, coming first to macOS, with Windows, iPhone, and Android support to follow.

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas - YouTube
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