Just in time for Prime Day, Steam's hardware survey reveals PC gamers have less free storage than ever — most users have only 100-250GB of space, barely enough for a couple of AAA titles

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Gaming demands on storage drives have exploded over the past few years, with many AAA games now requiring 100GB of storage or more. The Steam hardware survey for June 2025 has revealed that most Steam gamers only have 100 to 249GB of free storage available to install new games.

23.05% of Steam gamers are in this category; the next highest group boasts 250 to 499 GB of free storage,

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China state-backed firm is first to 3D print a micro turbojet engine, and not just for show — new design delivers 160 kg of thrust, successfully tested at 13,000 ft altitude

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The Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has 3D printed what it calls a micro turbojet engine. This isn't a model or replica print—this is the real deal. This 3D printed micro turbojet engine actually works and successfully flew when recently tested. This information comes to us from Global Times, which shared details from the official AECC WeChat page.

The announcement came on Wednesday when AECC confirmed the test flight took place in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

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Where to buy Nintendo's Switch 2 games console during Amazon Prime Day 2025

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Switch 2 Mario Kart Bundle back in stock in the UK — score new console and game for £429.95

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All of our eyes had been firmly on Amazon Prime Day ahead of this week, but we've just spied that the Nintendo Switch 2 Console bundle featuring Mario Kart World is back in stock in the UK, specifically at ShopTo.

While not a discount per se, buying the Switch 2 replete with Mario Kart World saves you a big chunk of money: the console alone costs nearly £400, and the standalone game costs upwards of £60 depending on where

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Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express cards during Amazon Prime Day 2025

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Nintendo's Switch 2 handheld gaming console is out in the wild, and if you didn't manage to snag some extra storage for your console before its release, here are some handy links for where to pick one up now during Amazon Prime Day 2025.

Beyond the Switch 2 console itself, there are games and peripherals to think about. The Nintendo Switch 2 comes with 256GB of built-in storage, but if you want to add extra to

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Nvidia's nerfed China-edition RTX 5090D overclocked to 3.6GHz — supercooled HOF edition breaks 3DMark and overclock records

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What do you get when you combine one of the world's best overclocking teams with a special BIOS from Nvidia, and a Galax Hall of Fame 5090D with dual 16-pin power connectors? New world records in a number of benchmarks , that's what. In this case, WCCFTech reports that team OGS broke records in Unigine Superposition, 3DMark Port Royal, and GPUPI, not to mention pushing the GPU to the highest clocks we've

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7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads

7-Zip version 25.00 is the first Windows release to properly support more than 64 threads.

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Intel's Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' to reportedly pack 192 cores, 16 memory channels, and 500 watts of power consumption

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Intel's next-generation Xeon processor, codenamed Diamond Rapids, will reportedly utilize a new platform with a 9324-pin LGA socket, indicating a revised memory subsystem and PCIe lane configuration. But a leaked slide published on Sunday by X86 is dead&back reveals that the new CPU could feature up to 192 high-performance cores as well as eight or 16 DDR5 memory channels. Please note that we are dealing with information from an unofficial

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Grab a 4TB SSD for 5 cents per gigabyte during Prime Day – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB

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It's Amazon Prime Day 2025, so what are you doing with just a 1TB or 2TB boot drive in your system? With AAA title games, photos, and videos, or locally-run LLMs, that kind of capacity just doesn't cut it. Fortunately, 4TB SSDs are very affordable right now and on sale, with prices of just $0.05 per GB or $0.06 per GB for

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Intel prepping Arrow Lake Refresh with minor clock speed bump and new Copilot+ AI-compliant NPU lifted from Core Ultra 200V — reportedly launches in the second half of 2025

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Intel isn’t done with Arrow Lake yet. After having launched a total of 22 locked and unlocked SKUs since last year's not-so-incredible launch , the company is now looking forward to the next wave. According to ZDNet Korea , a refresh of the Arrow Lake-S desktop lineup is reportedly set for release in the second half of 2025, and while it won’t introduce new core architectures, it will bring

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