After years of silence in the eGPU space, Razer is back, but not quite with a bang. The company has unveiled the Core X V2 , its first Thunderbolt™ 5 external GPU enclosure, alongside a separate Thunderbolt™ 5 Dock. On paper, both look like futuristic upgrades to their respective categories. Razer's last enclosure was the Core X Chroma, released six years ago, and it only had Thunderbolt 3 capabilities, so this upgrade was long overdue.
The Razer Core
A popular Intel leaker has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that Intel is preparing a Nova Lake-based mobile chip designed to face off with AMD’s Strix Halo APU. Jaykihn posted on X a simple “Preliminary Nova Lake-AX”, with another hardware leak source, HXL, commenting “intel Halo” — indicating that this fabled silicon could be Team Blue’s answer to the mobile APU with a powerful integrated GPU that AMD claims can reportedly beat a discrete RTX 40
Fears of new U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made 3D printers may have caused shipments of consumer-level 3D printers to surge in the first quarter of 2025, according to data gathered by market intelligence firm CONTEXT . The report shows that buyers are opting for less expensive, high-performance machines, such as those from Bambu Lab, over more costly professional and industrial machines.
CONTEXT generously defines entry-level 3D
Intel is potentially making it easier to objectively evaluate the image quality of modern games. A new AI-powered video quality metric, called the Computer Graphics Visual Quality Metric, or CGVQM, is now available on GitHub, as a PyTorch application.
A frame of animation is rarely natively rendered in today's games. Between the use of upscalers like DLSS, frame-generation techniques, and beyond, a host of image quality issues, like ghosting, flicker, aliasing, disocclusion, and
Mozilla has reportedly been swamped with crash reports for its Firefox browser, the majority of which are coming from Raptor Lake Intel CPUs that are known to suffer from instability that is further exacerbated by heat. Senior Staff Engineer Gabriele Svelto said on Mastodon that a mass of browser crash reports are coming from Intel Raptor Lake-powered systems located in areas that are suffering from heat waves.
“If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you’re in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your
A Reddit user claims that update 1.2.2 for Mig Flash works, because they haven’t been banned from Nintendo’s online services despite using the third-party cartridge extensively. According to the Redditor, they “ripped 20 carts” and “played them all online”, and their Switch 2 console still works fine. However, other users say that it’s just a matter of time before they get banned, especially as the Japanese gaming
Someone might be taking "the best defense is a good offense" a little too seriously. Despite the Trump administration's efforts to reduce U.S. government spending via mass layoffs, budget cuts, and whatever efficiency gains can be afforded by vibe coded services made by cybercriminals who can't legally drink alcohol, the contentious "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" provides for $1 billion in funding to "offensive cyber operations."
TechCrunch reported Monday that H.R. 1
After months of regulatory hurdles and revenue fallout, Nvidia is poised to initiate a bold comeback in China with its upcoming RTX 6000D—a strategically modified Blackwell-based GPU designed to satisfy current export controls and restore lost market share. According to DigiTimes , the company plans to begin shipping the card in Q3 of 2025, with an ambitious target of 1-2 million units by year-end, aiming to recoup over $10 billion in faltering
You can find many interesting things at an estate sale. One Redditor from the data hoarder community recently struck gold at one and picked up 11 WD Easystore 8TB external hard drives for just $360. Fortune was certainly smiling on the individual as five of the 11 came free of charge.
The estate sale broker initially asked $90 per drive for what everyone thought was six drives, but the Redditor negotiated a great deal and bought all six for $6