There’s nothing more exciting about PC building than when it’s time for the mighty graphics card. The last few years have certainly been a roller coaster ride of availability and pricing changes, however. These uncertainties can easily confuse even the most seasoned PC builders. As we approach the holiday shopping season, retailers are well…

Source: Hot Hardware – How To Find The Best Value In Gaming GPUs This Holiday Shopping Season

Google’s Pixel 8 phones with the latest Android 14 operating system might be receiving most of the attention right now, but it seems like the users of older Pixel devices might be reaping major benefits from the update as well. But of course, before we proceed, YMMV.

Mountain View’s recently released Android 14 brought with it some nice

Source: Hot Hardware – Android 14 Is Quietly Solving Overheating Issues For Some Pixel Phone Owners

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the blue spiral arms of a galaxy far, far away in stunning detail. NGC 6951, an intermediate spiral galaxy 78 million light-years away, was first discovered by French astronomer Jerome Coggia in 1887.

According to NASA, NGC 6951 is often classified as a Type II Seyfert galaxy, which is a type of active

Source: Hot Hardware – Hubble Captures Jaw-Dropping Image Of A Blue Spiral Galaxy Over 800M Years Old

Some of the latest and greatest phones from Apple, Samsung, and Google underwent a new round of Allstate Protection Plan’s breakability test. The results were not surprising, proving once more that glass is glass and users should always take precautions to protect their expensive investments.

Insurance provider Allstate has been doing its

Source: Hot Hardware – iPhone 15 Pro Max Battles Flagship Galaxy And Pixel Phones In Horrifying Breakability Test

Amazon’s second Prime Day sales event of 2023 has officially arrived and with it comes a whole lot of discounts across a wide range of products categories. We’ll be keeping a pulse on the situation over the course of today and tomorrow, highlighting some of the better bargains. To kick things off, Corsair sent us a long list of items it’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Corsair PC And Peripheral Deals Up To 48% Off To Level Up Your Gaming Battlestation

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su has been quite vocal about the company’s intention to aggressively focus on gaining AI compute market share moving forward. In recent weeks, Dr. Su noted that AI will be a part of every product at AMD in the next five years, and that she expects AI to be a significant growth driver. News also broke in September that LaminiAI

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Doubles Down On AI With Acquisition Of Open-Source Dev Nod.Ai

What do you get when you pair of the best gaming mice to one of the most beloved movie franchises of all time? Logitech just answered that question by launching the G502 X Plus Millennium Falcon Edition gaming mouse, a delightfully themed rodent honoring the 40th anniversary of War Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, the third in the original

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech G502 X Plus Millennium Falcon Is The Star Wars Gaming Mouse You’re Looking For

Late last year, sensing a market slowdown, memory manufacturers elected to cut production from earlier estimates. That has turned out to be a wise decision on their parts, as companies like Phison, Adata, Teamgroup, and Winbond all have reported spectacular financials in the most recent quarter.

This news comes to us via Taiwan’s United

Source: Hot Hardware – Why You May Soon Pay More To Upgrade Your PC’s RAM And SSD Storage

While Intel has confirmed its next-generation Meteor Lake chips will arrive just before the end of the year, a recent rumor suggests that the Core Ultra 9 flagships will only be available in 2024. This is according to respected Chinese leaker Golden Pig, who has a good track record when it comes to leaking upcoming Intel CPUs. Obviously, any

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Flagship Core Ultra 9 Meteor Lake CPU Launch Allegedly Slips Into Next Year

Every year, Mojang and Microsoft host Minecraft Live, a livestream dedicated to news and updates from Minecraft and Minecraft: Legends as well as a peek into the future of Minecraft in general. This is also accompanied by the now controversial Mob Vote, where players can cast a ballot to help pick a new mob to be added to the voxel-survival

Source: Hot Hardware – Minecraft Petition Already Has Over 180K Signatures, What Gamers Are Demanding

Modern browsers like Chrome make it a snap to open links in new tabs, and that’s led to many a cluttered window. The next version of Chrome might ease the burden with automatic tab organization. Simply tell your browser to organize your tabs, and like magic, it’ll (hopefully) create order from chaos.

Most Chrome users are on the stable

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch How Google’s Next Chrome Update Will Make Organizing Tabs A Whole Lot Easier

With football season fully underway, it is time to upgrade that old TV to a bigger and more vibrant model. Luckily, a ton of great deals are happening this week during Amazon’s second Prime Day event (of 2023) to up one’s game.

Amazon Fire 75-inch Omni Series TV
Who doesn’t want to watch the big game on Sunday on a giant TV? The Amazon

Source: Hot Hardware – These Early Amazon Prime Day Deals On Fire TVs And Streaming Sticks Are Lit

We’ve all been there, right? You want to add another SSD to your system, but all your M.2 sockets are full. You could get a SATA SSD, but that’s not going to satisfy your need for speed. No, you definitely need more NVMe storage, and that means you’re going to have to get a PCIe-to-M.2 adapter. If that’s the case anyway, why settle for one

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Quietly Launches A Storage AIC That Can Hold Four PCIe 5 SSDs For Blistering RAID

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare and bright burst of light between two galaxies, adding even more mystery to this known phenomenon. These random events, called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs), only seem to occur once a year or so and last only a matter of days.

The first LFBOT was detected in 2018. While there

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Hubble Telescope Observes A Huge Bizarre Intergalactic Explosion

Samsung is apparently not finished rolling out new hardware releases this fall. In addition to making a splash with the Galaxy S23 FE with an upgrade path to Android 17, Galaxy Buds FE, and both 10.9-inch and 12.4-inch Galaxy Tab S9 FE models, all which it unveiled last week, Samsung has quietly introduced the Galaxy Tab A9 and Galaxy Tab

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Tab A9 Plus Breaks Cover With 5G And A Sweet 90Hz Display

Could the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S24 be bestowed with more baked-in AI (artificial intelligence) features and a more powerful Bixby? According to a reliable tech tipster, it sure sounds like it.

Still a few months out, Galaxy S24 rumors and leaks surrounding the Samsung S24 line of smartphones continue to give us a better idea of what

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy S24 With One UI 6.1 Will Be A Massive AI Play, Tipster Reveals

There’s nothing quite as exciting as a new graphics card announcement. Even early rumors are enough to make enthusiasts pay attention, and that’s exactly what we have here with the NVIDIA RTX 4080 Ti. It’s no surprise that NVIDIA would plan such a GPU, since the precedence is there with previous generations (GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, anyone?).

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti Or Super Rumored For Release In 2024, What To Expect

This month marks the two-year anniversary of Windows 11 and by the numbers, many of you reading this on a Windows PC are rocking Microsoft’s latest-generation operating system. However, even more of you are running Windows 10. A lot more, as it turns out—around three out of every four Windows PCs have Windows 10 installed, compared to around

Source: Hot Hardware – Windows 11 Is Getting Crushed By Windows 10 In This Stat And It’s Not Even Close

As we inch closer to Halloween, coinciendtally, there are some interesting astronomic events afoot. Chief among these events is the upcoming annular solar eclipse, which will be crossing a significant swath of the United States. However, to view this phenomenon, one needs specific gear to protect their eyesight and/or electronics.

On October

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s How To Safely View The Ring Of Fire Annular Solar Eclipse

With the launch of Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Core desktop CPUs approaching, seeing leaks from the community anre retailers is not surprising. Case in point, Spanish retailer CoolMod has listed the Core i9-14900K(F) and Core i5-14600K(F), which will supplant the Core i9-13900K(F) and Core i5-13600K(F). Not only do these listings confirm that

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs Break Cover In Retail Listings