Thermaltake Expands RGB Lineup With ToughRAM Z-One DDR4 RAM Kit

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Thermaltake this week expanded its RGB portfolio with the ToughRAM Z-One 16GB DDR4 RAM kit. The kit joins Thermaltake's other RGB memory offerings, like the ToughRAM RGB DDR4 series and its white counterpart .

ToughRAM Z-One memory modules feature a 10-layer PCB with a 2-ounce copper inner layer, tightly screened memory chips and 10μ gold fingers. Thermaltake also equipped the sticks with a brushed aluminum heat spreader adorned with

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Logitech's Adjustable Weight RGB Gaming Mouse Drops to $30

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Here's your chance to grab a high-performance gaming mouse for cheap. The Logitech G502 Hero SE is at its all-time low price of $29.99 as the best holiday tech deals start arriving.

This is a special edition version of the G502 Hero with that adds white to the original's black-and-blue color scheme. The mouse measures 5.2 x 3 x

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Intel's Core i5-9600K Hits All-Time Low Price At $199

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Whether it's a momentary deal or not, it looks like Intel is feeling the pressure from the red team and we're seeing its CPU prices drop and drop. In one of this seasons' best holiday tech deals , NewEgg has the Intel Core i5-9600K for $199.99 , which is the lowest price we've seen yet for the boxed variant of this chip.

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MSI's RX 5500 XT Gaming and Mech Graphics Cards Spotted Ahead of AMD Launch

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AMD is rumored to release its Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card this week. Today, we're already seeing leaks of two of MSI's variants of the upcoming GPU, as reported by VideoCardz .

The AMD Radeon RX 5500-series is expected to land in 4GB and 8GB memory configurations over a 128-bit memory bus and1,408 RDNA cores. The RX

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Unreleased Intel Core i7-10610U Tested in Chromebook Hatch Laptop

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Google might have another high-end Chromebook in the works. As spotted by Morning Tick Sunday, Geekbench results for a new device, a "Google hatch" equipped with the yet-to-be-announced Intel Core i7-10610U processor, have been posted.

This isn't the first we've heard about Hatch/ Chrome Unboxed revealed details about Hatch in April. (It discovered a subset of devices based on a motherboard code-named


Chinese Government Phasing Out Foreign Hardware, Software

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Chinese institutions have three years to remove all foreign-made hardware and software and to replace them with locally-sourced alternatives, according to an order from the national Chinese government.

The mass replacement process was detailed in a secret directive that was issued to the Chinese government institutions earlier this year. The Financial Times (FT) learned about it only a week ago. The directive was internally called “3-5-2,” based on the percentage targets that the Chinese Communist Party imposed


Razer's Classy Huntsman Gaming Keyboard Is on Sale at its Lowest Price

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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo Da Vinci once reportedly said, and that’s something Razer’s taken to heart with its Huntsman Opto-mechanical gaming keyboard. This full-size board is having one of the best holiday tech deals right now. It debuted just under a year ago, but is now on sale from $150 down to $86.

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Hopper Might Be the Codename For Nvidia GPUs Succeeding Ampere

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As per a VideoCardz report, Nvidia recently registered the Hopper trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The latest filing lends credence to the possibility that Hopper is the codename for the successor to Nvidia's upcoming Ampere graphics card architecture.

Ampere, which is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère, will replace the chipmaker's current Turing architecture. Both Samsung and TSMC will produce Ampere for Nvidia on the 7nm process node.

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Microsoft Considering E Ink Writing Area for Surface Book Laptop

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A recent patent application revealed Microsoft's plans to add a new writing surface to its Surface Book laptop. That surface wouldn't replace any of the Surface Book's current input sources, per the filing, and would instead be used alongside the existing trackpad.

“[The device] includes a main computing unit and a detachable writing input device, joined by a connecting mechanism. The main computing unit includes a main display device, while the writing input device hosts a keyboard and


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Intel Creates Cryogenic Control Chip for Commercial Quantum Computers

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Intel Labs this morning is releasing details of its new Horse Ridge cryogenic control chip that it has developed with QuTech, and hopes will pave the way towards commercially viable quantum computers. By solving the interconnect bottleneck in quantum system design by having a single, integrated SoC instead of hundreds of wires, it should allow Intel to scale up the number of qubits on the way to achieve quantum practicality, where a quantum computer solves real-world problems. Intel claims this is the first such quantum control

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