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Arctic Cooler System Upgrade Giveaway

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The Tom's Hardware community team is ending 2019 with another exciting giveaway, this time featuring products from the fine folks at Arctic.

Our grand prize package has everything you need to get upgrade your rig’s cooling capabilities. Up for grabs is the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 AiO cooler, along with high-performance BioniX fans of your choice, thermal paste, and a whole lot more. There are 3 prize packages and five ways to enter.

For


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AMSL: 4.5 Million Cumulative EUV Wafers Processed Through 2018

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ASML has disclosed at the IEDM 2019 conference that a total of 4.5 million wafers had been processed using EUV tools until 2019, as reported by AnandTech . The company’s latest NXE:3400C systems achieves 170 wafer per hour throughput.

Of the 4.5 million wafers that had cumulatively run through ASML’s EUV tools from 2011 until late 2018, the majority (2.5

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Six-Core Savings: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X CPU Falls to $119

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If you're building a budget or mid-range gaming PC, AMD's Ryzen 5 2600X is a good choice. This processor features 6 cores and 12 threads, along with a boost clock speed of 4.1 GHz to go with its 3.6 GHz base speed. And right now, as part of the holiday tech deal season, B&H has the Ryzen 5 2600X for just $119 . You

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Fully-Loaded Asus ZenBook 14 (Core i7 / 16GB / 512GB) Now Just $799

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We've seen some great laptop sales during this holiday tech deals season, but this one is so good, I ordered one for my wife just before writing this. Newegg (via its eBay store) now has a ZenBook 14 with a Core i7-8565U CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and Nvidia MX150 graphics for just $799.

This ZenBook 14 config, model UX4

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Hot Wheels id With Swift Playgrounds Review: A Classic With a Coding and AR Twist

Our Verdict

Easy-to-understand lessons with increasing difficulty and fun animations with augmented reality will keep children entertained. But without real-world coding or the ability to write code freely, there will still be more to learn.

For

  • Teaches fundamentals of basic coding and AR well
  • Fun, captivating lessons with a storyline and increasing difficulty
  • Groovy tunes

Against

  • Codes aren’t applicable in the real world
  • No free coding

These ain’t your daddy’s Hot Wheels. Mattel is embracing into the age of technology -- and

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Microsoft Gives Windows 10 Mobile a Little Longer to Live

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The holiday spirit must have gotten to Microsoft. As noted by Windows Latest Sunday, Microsoft published an updated support article on December 10 saying that it would extend support for Windows 10 Mobile from December 10 to January 14, 2020.

Microsoft said in the support article that "devices running Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will no longer receive monthly security and quality updates that contain protection from the latest security threats" on


EKWB Updates Pump/Reservoir Combo Units To EK-Quantum Kinetic with RGB

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After a long reign of the EK-XRES Revo pumps, EKWB is updating them with the new Quantum Kinetic line of reservoir and pump combo units. These EK-Quantum tube reservoirs are fitted with D5 pumps, which is one of the most popular and reliable pumps used in high-end custom liquid cooling. The new Quantum series update the line with some of the features expected nowadays from new components.

One of the most notable changes is D-RGB support, which means that

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Intel Announces $2 Billion Habana Labs Acquisition

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Intel today announced that it acquired Habana Labs for $2 billion to "accelerate the delivery of best-in-class [artificial intelligence] products for the data center."

This acquisition happened relatively early in Habana Labs' existence. The company emerged from stealth in September 2018 with a new chip, Goya, made specifically for deep learning inference workflows. Goya was said to offer improved performance over the GPUs many companies relied on for their AI work.

Intel said in the


Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850W Power Supply Review: High Performance And RGB Lighting

Our Verdict

The Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850W is an excellent product, but the recent US tariffs highly affected its price tag, and this is the main reason behind its restricted availability, in the US market.

For

  • Full power at 47 degrees Celsius
  • High build quality
  • Good overall performance
  • Efficient
  • Fully modular
  • 2x EPS and 6x PCIe connectors
  • HDB fan
  • 10-year warranty

Against

  • Expensive
  • Restricted availability in the US
  • 3.3V rail's transient response could be better
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Lexar’s New NVMe SSD Hits 7GBps, the Fastest yet for a PCIe 4.0 SSD.

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The latest consumer PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs are all built using Phison’s PS5016-E16 NVMe controller. With sequential performance speeds of up to 5 GBps, they are much faster than your standard PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD. And if you are in the market for speed, they are currently the drives to get, but according to a demo the company gave Thessdreview , they will soon face stiff competition from Lexar

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