Cyber Monday is over, but the savings will continue through the holiday shopping season. In fact, major tech retailers like Amazon and Newegg are going to keep offering up savings as people shop for holiday gifts.
With so many sales, it can be hard to tell whether you're getting a deal or a dud. So whether you're
This holiday tech deals season , we've seen some great sales on mid-range gaming laptops, including a number of configurations of MSI's GL65. Right now, Newegg has a particularly-compelling version of the GL65 for just $1,149 after rebate .
Reduced from $1,399 after a discount and a mail-in rebate, this GL65 sports an Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU, which means that
Intel's Core i9-9900KS is the company's fastest consumer CPU, a version of the high-end 9900K that has been highly-binned so that you get only the most-capable chips from the factory. Every 9900KS is rated to hit 5-GHz on all eight of its cores and, in Tom's Hardware's review testing of the 9900KS,
Razer’s understated Viper Ultimate packs impressive tech and performance, but its small form factor and light weight make it best-suited for claw grip gamers.
Razer’s Viper Ultimate ($150 MSRP) wireless RGB gaming mouse offers the same impressive technology, including the same sensor, wireless tech
AMD's Radeon RX 570 GPU is several years old, but that doesn't make it a bad choice for gamers on tight budgets. On the contrary, this entry-level chip is more than adequate for playing PC games at 1080p resolution at reasonable settings.
Even in 2019, you'll be hard pressed to find an RX 570 card selling for less than $119 and many cost as much as $
Many of the best Cyber Monday deals are in the rear window, but here's one that remains live and extremely compelling. Amazon is offering the 1TB Samsung 860 EVO for just $87 , an all-time low. That's 8 cents per GB and $42 below its $129 regular price.
There are probably cheaper 1TB drives on sale this holiday season, but this is a Samsung. And, for many
Like other capacities of the drive, the 2TB Intel SSD 660p lacks high endurance, and direct to QLC write speed is lackluster. But you get solid performance and efficiency under consumer-based workloads. Top things off, it’s significantly cheaper than the competition and often goes on sale, making it one of the best SSD values available.
TSMC continues to keep up the pace with its transition to smaller process nodes. According to JK Wang , the company's senior vice president for fab operations, TSMC is on track to start 5nm commercial production in the second half of 2020, while it’s also expected to start 3nm volume production in 2022.
TSMC expects 5nm orders to ramp up next year as mobile phone vendors try to sell more efficient chips with integrated 5G modems
The Radeon RX 5700 XT remains AMD's flagship consumer GPU for good reason. This chip is capable of delivering really smooth game play at 1080p or 2K at reasonably high settings.
Before this past holiday deals season , you would be hard pressed to find a card with a 5700 XT selling for less than $400, but in the past couple of weeks, we've seen a couple fall well below that mark
AOC is back again with a new monitor, and this time it’s the Agon AG493UCX. This display is a huge 49-inch ultrawide, which has a suitably high resolution for a display of its size: 5120 by 1440 pixels. This is a notable step up from competitor Samsung’s CHG90’s resolution , which is 3840 by 1080 pixels on an identical panel size,