Get an RTX 5080 at MSRP — Yes, you read that right, Newegg has Zotac and MSI RTX 5080 GPUs at 'a discount' from their original prices

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It appears that the GPU market is finally healing, as we have just spotted two RTX 5080 models selling at Nvidia’s original MSRP. The MSI Shadow 3X OC RTX 5080 and the Zotac Solid Core RTX 5080 are currently available for purchase at $999 over at Newegg.

Both GPUs notably comply with Nvidia’s SFF-ready category of enthusiast GeForce cards, which mandates a maximum height of 151mm, a

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You can now buy replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet colors — compatible with Logitech, Kensington, Elecom, and ProtoArc mice

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The frequently overlooked, sometimes shunned, trackball pointing device is getting some love with a Japanese tech accessories maker launching replacement balls in a choice of four colors. Earlier this week, Sanwa Supply Co., Ltd. announced (machine translation) that it has started marketing its ‘400-MABALL34’ in four colors: red, blue, black, and violet. The balls are said to be easy to swap out components for trackball pointing devices with

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Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans

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According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate 's Singapore and Malaysian offices, in conjunction with local Malaysian authorities, conducted a raid on a warehouse in May that was engaged in cooking up counterfeit Seagate hard drives, situated outside Kuala Lumpur.

During the raid, authorities reportedly uncovered approximately 700 counterfeit Seagate hard drives, with SMART values that had been reset

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Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips —

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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to introduce steep new trade duties on steel, semiconductors, and possibly pharmaceuticals within the next two weeks. What could bewilder the high-tech industry is that Trump is mulling up to 300% tariffs on semiconductors, according to Bloomberg .

"I am going to have a rate that is going to be 200%, 300%," said Trump while talking to journalists onboard of the Air Force One

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These are my favorite pretty PC peripherals that aren't pink, black, or white

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Most gaming peripherals — and PC parts, and electronics in general — are black. That makes sense, as black goes with everything, looks sleeker and more professional (and more modern)

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I 3D printed an entire server case with the Elegoo Centauri Carbon – this is what happened and how much it cost

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It was about a decade ago that I first got into 3D printing, thanks to Ultimaker loaning its 3D printers to user groups, makerspaces, and schools. My local makerspace received a unit, and from there, I was hooked on what you could create using nothing more than X,Y, Z coordinates and blobs of molten plastic. In the early days, though, the laser cutter truly stole my attention.

I’ve owned a few 3D printers

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Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky

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It's easy to mistake an "l" for a "1" or an "I" with a poorly designed typeface. (Ahem.) Fortunately, modern fonts tend to use a variety of techniques to disambiguate those easily confused alphanumeric characters. But those designs rarely account for ambiguity that results from similarities across different character sets, as a recent phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users demonstrates.

BleepingComputer reported that "the attack, first spotted by security researcher JAMESWT , abuses the Japanese

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The 4K Samsung Odyssey G70B is only $300, a massive $400 discount from its original price — perfect for back-to-school shoppers

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Samsung is offering its Odyssey G70B gaming monitor for just $299 on Walmart right now, saving you an incredible $400 from its usual price. School is right around the corner, and you deserve a display that's as impressive as your grades—well, hopefully . In all seriousness, a high-quality monitor makes everything—research, projects, coding, or creative work—way easier, and when it's time to

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This 15.6-inch IPS portable monitor is 36% off — at only $69, this is a cheap answer to your Back to School second screen needs

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A second screen can provide a very welcome boost to PC productivity, or to the entertainment that you can squeeze out of a smartphone or console. Today, we spotted a value-packed portable model at 36% off the regular price. The Arzopa S1 Table portable monitor checks a lot of boxes with its 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution IPS display, convenient USB Type-C (power and

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Early RTX 5090D V2 benchmarks suggest that maybe 384-bit memory is just fine after all — 'nerfed' China-market GPU runs within 2.2% of 5090D in some tests

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Early RTX 5090 V2 benchmarks have been published overseas, revealing a surprising trait of Nvidia's latest Chinese flagship GPU. Chinese review site Yesky benchmarked the RTX 5090D and RTX 5090D V2 head-to-head and discovered the latter performs on par with the former in gaming performance, despite the V2 variant featuring 33% less memory bandwidth.

Yesky benchmarked the RTX 5090D and RTX 509

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