There's another stonkingly good discount on a high spec gaming PC, and it's all thanks to Newegg. The big electronics retailer has once again slashed its prices, giving you a fresh opportunity to score a powerful new gaming rig, ready for 4K gaming, and all for less than $200. You
Snap up 32GB of Crucial Pro Overclocking RAM for $325.99 — the cheapest available DDR5-6000 kit for hitting AMD's sweetspot
Prices of RAM, SSD storage, and even graphics cards have all been affected by the recent surge in demand for AI data centers. Some manufacturers, like Crucial, have chosen to drop their consumer products altogether to capitalise on profit margins from the AI build-out, unfortunately leaving PC enthusiasts with even less choice and competition in the market.
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AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs begin to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at last — RX 9070 arrives with paltry 0.16% market share, less than the GeForce GT 730
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and an AMD RDNA4 architecture GPU has charted in the PC Video Card Usage tables. Despite AMD’s fanfared deprioritization of flagship GPUs to follow the mass market, the Radeon RX 9000 family's entry into the chart has been a long time coming. Moreover, the RDNA4 Radeon has
SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity
SpaceX has officially announced its acquisition of xAI, allowing the two companies to vertically integrate their operations and help Elon Musk achieve his dream of artificial intelligence in space. According to the company’s announcement , space is the only logical solution to scaling AI data centers, as we do not have enough resources on Earth to power these systems.
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ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial — Kerbal Space Program Lunar lander powered by 1980s hardware
Another day, and another Z80-based news story showing that there is life in the old microprocessor. Internet rocket scientist, gamer, astronomer, and YouTuber Scott Manley has taken the venerable Sinclair ZX Spectrum to another world. Well, virtually!
Flying a simulated spacecraft controlled by a ZX Spectrum and Sinclair BASIC my first
Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill
As sky-high prices from the AI-driven RAMpocalypse cascade through everything with a chip in it, the last thing anybody wants to do right now is to buy a replacement memory kit, graphics card, or even an entire new desktop or laptop. And with today’s lengthening upgrade cycles, many of us are already using older
Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND
The voracious appetite of the generative AI revolution has overhauled any number of industries so far in its three-year history. First, it upended demand for high-end chips, pushing companies like Nvidia to record high valuations and putting pressure on all parts of the manufacturing process to churn out chips to meet that need. Then it began to
Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame
The Notepad++ project yesterday disclosed that its update server was covertly hijacked in a targeted supply chain attack that began in June 2025, exposing a subset of users to malicious installers delivered through the editor’s built-in updater. According to Notepad++ , attackers — which it claims were "likely a Chinese state-
Frankenstein RTX 5070 Ti with an RTX 2080 Ti PCB breaks world record with extreme modding — card was damaged, salvaged with AMD donor parts and lots of soldered wires and tape
Resurrecting an Nvidia graphics card with a massive hole in it might be enough of an achievement for some, but not for Brazilian YouTuber Paulo Gomes. Hours of initial work between him and his team to fix this burned-out RTX 5070 Ti succeeded, wiring up the VRMs from an AMD Radeon
Intel returns to boxed workstation CPUs with Xeon 600 — Granite Rapids WS delivers up to 86 cores, 4TB of memory, and 128 PCIe 5 lanes
After nearly three years, Intel is returning to the desktop workstation with the hotly-anticipated ( and long-rumored ) Granite Rapid-WS series. Now known as Xeon 600, the new series covers all of Intel’s bases for desktop workstations. With previous-gen Sapphire Rapids-WS, Intel split its offerings between two different lineups