Kids today have no concept of stuffing a pocket full of quarters and heading to the local arcade. Sure, there are outfits like Dave & Busters, but they’re fewer and far between than the heyday of arcade gaming (plus it’s not the same experience loading up and tapping a card). While those days may be gone forever, you can turn your basement

Source: Hot Hardware – Mortal Kombat And More Arcade Cabinet Deals Up To 0 Off, Who Needs Quarters?

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a familiar face that you’ve known for years, like a good friend. If you count your PC as one of your friends, then you may have owned a version of the ultra popular Lian Li Dynamic O11. Introduced in 2018, this case design has undergone several variations. There is the standard size, a mini version

Source: Hot Hardware – Lian Li And PCMR Collab On A PC Case To Showcase Your Building Skills

Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to Copilot in what the company says is an attempt to unify the Copilot experience for consumer and commercial customers. However, many believe it was more about trying to invigorate people’s interest in its AI-enabled product.

As the AI war heats up, companies are looking for any way to make their products stand

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Says Farewell To Bing Chat And Hello To Copilot As AI Wars Heat Up

European astronomers using data gleaned from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found an exoplanet that not only has water vapor and sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere, but also silicate clouds that eventually falls as sand rain. Not so great if you left your car parked outside.

JWST has brought us many wonderous observations of objects

Source: Hot Hardware – Forget Cats And Dogs, NASA’s Webb Telescope Found A Planet Where It Rains Sand

As with the departure of a dear friend, anytime one’s favorite graphics card takes its final curtain call, there is cause for reflection. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs have enjoyed quite a storied history since their initial release. Coming hot off the trail of the egregiously frustrating GPU shortage that preceded it, gamers were

Source: Hot Hardware – Oh Super, NVIDIA Reportedly Halts Mass Production Of GeForce RTX 4080 And 4070 Ti GPUs

Epic Games is empowering gamers with a new tool in an ongoing effort to mitigate bullying, harassment, discrimination, and generally toxic behavior. Effectively immediately, Fortnite players can submit audio recordings to report gamers who cross the line and run afoul of Epic’s community rules. This is in addition to existing mechanisms that

Source: Hot Hardware – Fortnite Adds Voice Reporting To Combat Toxic Gaming Trolls, How It Works

There are a variety of PC hardware components that can exude a feeling of joy and excitement by the mere mention that something new may be coming. While gamers have recently been enthralled with the possibility of a new lineup of NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super GPUs, we have news of some future PCIe cables, too. 

No, gamers aren’t suddenly becoming

Source: Hot Hardware – PCI-SIG Reveals New CopprLink Naming Scheme For PCI Express 6.0 And 5.0 Cables

Cooler PCIe 5.0 SSDs might finally be on the horizon with Silicon Motion’s new SM2508 SSD controller. With a maximum TDP of 3.5 watts, SSDs build on this new controller should run considerably cooler than Phison’s PS5026-E26 controller rated for 5 watts, and running at 1.5 watts lower power draw could make a really big difference for thermals.

Source: Hot Hardware – Silicon Motion Teases Low Power PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Ripping Reads At 14.5GB/s

With its “Alder Lake” 12th-generation Core CPUs, Intel introduced the concept of the “P-series” processors. These 28W chips sit between the ultra-low-voltage “U” CPUs and the full-power mobile “H” units. Naturally, we’d expect its upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs to continue with this sort of segmentation, but it looks like things may have become

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel May Add To Meteor Lake-H CPU Model Confusion With Both 28W And 45W SKUS

Software vulnerabilities come and go, but vulnerabilities found in hardware are significantly harder to deal with and lead to more problems, such as with Hertzbleed and that family of security issues that sprung up from simple clock management techniques. Now, researchers have found a new problem with AMD EPYC processors that allows an attacker

Source: Hot Hardware – EPYC CacheWarp CPU Exploit Gives Hackers Root Access To Virtual Machines, Patch Now

NVIDIA will be releasing an update to TensorRT-LLM for AI inferencing, which will allow desktops and laptops running RTX GPUs with at least 8GB of VRAM to run the open-source software. This update will introduce support to more large language models. However, only users who are currently using Windows 11 will be able to take advantage of this

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s TensorRT AI Model Now Runs On All GeForce RTX 30 And 40 GPUs With 8GB+ Of RAM

WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication platforms in the world, and it reached that lofty position before it even had a backup solution. Beginning in 2015, the Facebook-owned app added support for Google Drive backup and restore. Google and WhatsApp inked a deal that ensured those backups would not count against the Drive storage

Source: Hot Hardware – WhatsApp Chats Backed Up To Google Drive Will Soon Count Towards Your Storage Cap

WP Fastest Cache, a WordPress plugin currently in use by over 1 million users that assists in more efficiently delivering their websites, is addressing a security issue with its 1.2.2 release. This update addresses an SQL injection vulnerability found during an internal review by the WPScan team. The vulnerability made it possible for an unauthenticated

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Audit Reveals Major Vulnerability In A Popular WordPress Plugin, Update ASAP

A recently released beta of visionOS for the Vision Pro operating system includes tutorial videos showcasing how a user interacts with visionOS by utilizing eye and hand movements. One onboarding video shared on X called “Input Training” shows how someone wearing a set of Apple’s Vision Pro glasses can use hand gestures to open a selected

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Vision Pro Video In VisionOS Beta Details Slick Eye And Hand Controls

If you’ve got a hankering for desktop and workstation processors with many cores that rip through compute workloads, then you should definitely join us live this Friday, 11/17/23 at 1PM ET for our Two And A Half Geeks livestream. Joining us this week is special guest Corporate VP and General Manager, Client Channel Business at AMD, David McAfee,

Source: Hot Hardware – Join Us For A Threadripper 7000 HEDT Livestream With AMD’s David McAfee

The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) isn’t dead even as solid state drives (SSDs) steal the limelight. That’s because pricing for bulk storage still favors HDDs. But while the storage medium is far from dead, HDDs do give up the ghost, some more often than others. Which ones are the most reliable? That’s a tricky question, and it’s also where

Source: Hot Hardware – Storage Reliability Report Yields Surprising Results As Summer Temps Hit A Record High

Astronomers were recently amazed to find an aurora-like display some 40,000 kilometers above a sunspot. Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) detailed radio observations of the event that share characteristics with the auroral radio emissions typically only seen in planetary

Source: Hot Hardware – Scientists Discover A Stunning Extraordinary Aurora Emission On The Sun

We’re still waiting for solid state drives (SSDs) built that take advantage of the PCI Express 5.0 bus to bombard the market, but so far there have been just a small handful of releases. They are coming, though. One of the challenges they bring with them is how to manage thermals. PNY’s answer? Slap on a heatsink with dual cooling fans, as

Source: Hot Hardware – PNY’s New PCIe 5.0 SSDs Are So Fast They Come With Two Cooling Fans

Although Intel and Argonne National Laboratory declared the Aurora supercomputer to be finally complete earlier this year, apparently it’s not fully up and running just yet. It’s only running with half of its 21,248 Xeon Max Sapphire Rapids CPUs and 63,744 Ponte Vecchio GPUs, which allowed it to snag second place in Top500’s list of fastest

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Powered Aurora Supercomputer Is Gunning For AMD Frontier But Can’t Catch It Yet

Today’s PC-based gaming handhelds are incredibly powerful. Systems like the OneXFly offer eight Zen 4 CPU cores and up to 64GB of fast LPDDR5X memory—more than enough horsepower for even tasks like video editing. After all, we used to do that stuff on old Core 2 Duo systems. However, making use of the full potential of these SoCs means plugging

Source: Hot Hardware – OneXGPU Dock Unveiled: A Slick eGPU With SSD Storage, RGB And OCuLink Support