Adding a new PCIe 4.0 SSD to your computer can be an easy and cheap way to upgrade your gaming performance, and also helps you keep more games installed without having to uninstall ones you haven’t quite finished with. With Baldur’s Gate 3 being so popular at the moment, and Starfield’s highly-anticipated release just a couple of weeks away now, some gamers might be looking at their PC’s storage space and are starting to think how they can keep two games that need over 120GB of storage each installed. If that’s the case, then the Crucial P5 Plus SSD is…
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A Chinese TechTuber has revealed how Asus has managed to cool the powerful new AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D for laptops, as well as the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. Bilibili user Ordinary Uncle Tony disassembled his Asus ROG Strix Scar to quite a daring degree to reveal the AMD APU as shown above and below (h/t HXL).(Image credit: Ordinary Uncle Tony)What you see is AMD’s powerful X3D enhanced mobile APU — without an IHS, of course — with its multiple dies visible. Solder mask, or a similar non-conductive barrier like a lacquer or epoxy resin, has been meticulously applied to…
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 (2023) is yet another great Lenovo laptop. There’s only a 16-inch model available in the U.S., but it comes with either AMD or Intel CPUs, and you get up to a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. However, upgrading storage is usually expensive if you opt to do it at checkout, so you can swap out your SSD for a bigger one down the line as long as you’re comfortable working inside your laptop, have the right tools, and have backed up your data. What you’ll need To upgrade the storage in the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim…
Microsoft Microsoft’s efforts to put new AI-powered features into Windows 11 will pick up steam this fall when Windows Copilot is officially released, but the company isn’t stopping there. According to a report from Windows Central, Microsoft is in the early stages of experimenting with new features for built-in Windows apps like Photos, Snipping Tool, and even Paint, which all fall under the broad heading of “AI.” The report claims that Photos, Camera, and Snipping Tool—all apps that work with either photos or screenshots—could soon include optical character recognition (OCR) features that would allow users to copy and paste text…
Andy Boxall / Digital Trends As smartphones became mainstream over the past decade, multiple research papers popped up, documenting how extremely filthy they can get. Fresh research from the University of Arizona said that smartphones can be 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Another paper published in Nature claimed that microbial infection is so bad that robust public health and biosecurity protocols are needed to minimize the risks. But over the years, another class of personal devices has become a part of our daily lives — health wearables such as smartwatches and fitness bands. Researchers at Charles E. Schmidt…
New Delhi: Despite consecutive quarters of decline in overall smartphone sales in India and tepid projections for the upcoming festive season, the local arm of Korean electronics conglomerate, Samsung, anticipates its best-ever September quarter for its smartphone business. According to Raju Pullan, senior vice-president of Samsung India’s mobile business, the firm expects better performance in the second half of 2023. “We launched our foldables this month. They are doing very well. We expect to see highest numbers ever in this ongoing quarter, led by the premium segment of smartphones, and across all platforms. Starting with the long weekend period of…
Apple / Apple The Apple Studio Display, which is designed to meet the needs of creative professionals, is available from Amazon with a 13% discount that slashes its price to $1,399 from $1,599. You won’t always get the chance to buy this monitor at $200 off, so if you’ve had your eye on it ever since it was revealed in Apple’s Peek Performance event more than a year ago, don’t pass on this opportunity. Push through with the purchase right now because if you hesitate, you may miss out on the savings. Why you should buy the Apple Studio Display…
NVIDIA has teamed up with Remedy Entertainment to give away a unique and rare Alan Wake II-inspired GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 GPU Will Make Alan Wake II’s Survival Horror Experience All The Better With Path Tracing & You Can Even Win One For Free NVIDIA and Remedy have teamed up to giveaway an Alan Wake II-inspired GeForce RTX 4090 GPU which looks absolutely gorgeous with its uniquely themed backplate. You continue in Alan Wake’s footsteps, 13 years after the original game made its debut and it takes its psychological thriller and horror roots one step…
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends The Surface Laptop Studio is still one of our favorite 2-in-1 laptops, even two years after its release, so the hotly anticipated Surface Laptop Studio 2 has us very excited. And with good reason. The rumored updates to specifications, features, and capabilities all suggest this could be one of the best convertible laptops of the year. If the leaks and rumors prove true, that is. With a potential release just weeks away, here’s everything we (think we) know about the Surface Laptop Studio 2. Release date and pricing speculation Microsoft hasn’t announced a release date,…
Today’s best Thermaltake ToughRAM XG RGB DDR5-5600 C36 dealsThermaltake’s ToughRAM XG RGB DDR5-5600 C36 memory kit may not look like much on paper, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve a shot to take on the best RAM. DDR5 is progressing nicely, as both Intel and AMD platforms now use the new memory standard. Unlike when DDR5 was in diapers, memory kits nowadays arrive with improved timings, and we even have access to high-end memory kits hitting DDR5-8000. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for lower-tier memory kits — not everyone chases the highest performance possible. Some still prefer…