iBuyPower Y40 Pro Review: Style first

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The iBuyPower Y40 Pro delivers eye-catching design and solid gaming performance, but its limited expandability and intrusive fan noise make it better suited for style-focused users than serious upgraders.

Pros

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    Attractive, RGB-lit design

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    Many available configurations

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    Decent peripherals

Cons

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    Noticeable fan noise

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    Limited storage and PCIe expansion

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    Only some RGB customization

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    Power supply isn't modular

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Find My Parking Cops uses data scraped from City website to track parking fines in real time — entire website dedicated to helping San Francisco motorists avoid parking tickets goes live

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A software engineer named Riley Walz has built a website that scrapes the data from the City of San Francisco website, allowing him to track issued parking tickets in real-time and the location where the officers wrote them. The information is readily available on the Find My Parking Cops web app, and uses an interface similar to Apple’s Find My app, making it quick and easy to use.

Overlaid on a top-down view of San Francisco, you get a

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Intel could be working on its own multi-frame generation tech — XeSS MFG name and logo found in Arc graphics driver files

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New code unearthed in Intel's Arc graphics driver files could point to the company's plans to launch its own answer to Nvidia's multi-frame generation tech. Multi-frame generation, or MFG for short, debuted in Nvidia's keynote last year as part of its pitch for the RTX 50 series. Ada Lovelace could already do regular frame gen — inserting an AI-generated frame between two real ones — but Blackwell took it one step further — using up

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Nvidia and Intel’s RTX SoCs could pose an existential threat to AMD’s APUs — if two companies can actually pull it off

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For years, AMD’s most dangerous weapon hasn’t been its killer desktop CPUs or its most efficient laptop chips. It’s been the APU, a quiet killer of discrete GPUs in gaming consoles, handhelds, and notebooks alike. With the Ryzen AI 300 series, AMD proved it could pair 16-core Zen 5 CPUs with RDNA 3.5 GPUs and a 50 TOPS NPU into a single power-efficient die. It was a pitch neither

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GPD Win 5 handheld soars with Strix Halo — gaming deck is almost twice as fast as Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 competitors at same power

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More content creators are getting their hands on GPD's incredibly potent Win 5 handheld gaming PC, sporting AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU. YouTube hardware tester The Phawx has turned in his initial impressions of the handheld, particularly against competing AMD handhelds with more "conventional" hardware. He found the GPD Win 5 is up to twice as fast as competing Ryzen AI 9 HX 370-powered handhelds while consuming the same amount of power (at 25W

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China's latest GPU arrives with claims of CUDA compatibility and RT support — Fenghua No.3 also boasts 112GB+ of HBM memory for AI

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While Innosilicon Technology's products may not be prominently featured on the list of the best graphics cards , the company has been hard at work developing its Fenghua (translated as Fantasy) series of graphics cards. As ITHome reported, Innosilicon recently unveiled the Fenghua No. 3, the company's latest flagship GPU. The company promises that its third GPU iteration is a significant advancement over its predecessors.

While previous Fenghua No.1 and Fenghua No.2 graphics cards were based on Imagination

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You can get a PNY RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB card for only $379 — GPU drops to historical low price for the 16 GB variant

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"Graphics cards are so expensive" is a phrase we hear a lot, and for good reason. It's hard to believe that you often can't get a mid-range card for less than $400 (or more!) But the PNY RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB is currently selling for for just $379.99 at Walmart .

That's a historically low price as far as we can tell

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Nvidia's $100 billion investment in OpenAI raises big antitrust concerns — legal experts and policymakers raise eyebrows over potential for market imbalance

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Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, marking an unprecedented financial and strategic alignment between the leading AI hardware provider and one of the best-known developers of artificial intelligence models. However, the deal raises major antitrust concerns among legal experts and policymakers over potential market imbalance, as in both cases the investment can impact competitors of both companies, reports Reuters .

A lot of concerns

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Valve's 256GB LCD Steam Deck is an incredible 20% off — big price drop just in time for the Steam Autumn Sale

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If you don't have a PC-based gaming handheld, it can be hard to comprehend what all the fuss is about. This is the fastest-growing sector of the PC gaming space, though, and there's a reason. If you'd like to find out for yourself why everyone from Asus to Zotac is making aming handhelds, you can try out the original Valve Steam Deck LCD with a 256GB SSD for just $319.2

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The end of EU-imposed cookie consent pop-ups could be nigh — consent fatigue and clickspamageddon to be addressed by European Commission amendments to its 2009 e-Privacy Directive

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The plague of cookie consent alerts, banners, and pop-ups that have added a sliver of sandpaper to web surfing since 2009 might be eradicated in December. The European Commission (EC) intends to revise a law called the e-Privacy Directive, reports Politico . Specifically, new guidelines from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) aim to eliminate manipulative consent banners and reduce consent fatigue.

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