Redditor knowingly purchased a counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro 4TB and shared what's under the hood of the SSD.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fake-dollar39-samsung-990-pro-4tb-ssd-looks-almost-real
Nvidia CEO wrote a heartfelt letter to employees mourning Mellanox founder’s daughter’s death and harm to other Nvidians.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-mourns-terrorist-murder-of-mellanox-founders-daughter
Someone, most likely a reviewer, has tested Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900K with the Factorio benchmark.
Starting from 2024, Best Buy will no longer sell movies on physical media.
Multiple games crash or trigger anti-cheat protection with AMD's Anti-Lag+ enabled.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-anti-lag-triggers-anti-cheat-protection-in-multiple-games
A repair shop has shared a video documenting the fault finding and repair of an RTX 4090, which somehow got a winged insect under the AD102 GPU.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bug-impedes-rtx-4090-founders-edition-gpu-from-working
The Maxsun iCraft Z790ITX Wi-Fi is a well-equipped Mini-ITX option at a reasonable price. For $299 (MSRP), you get two M.2 sockets and four SATA ports, capable power delivery, and a neutral black and silver appearance. But it lacks PCIe 5 M.2 and a high-quality audio solution.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/maxsun-icraft-z790itx-wifi-review
Nvidia has quietly announced new price hikes in Europe and Canada for its GeForce Now cloud streaming service to cover higher operational costs in both of those areas. In Canada, prices have increased by roughly 40% for the Priority and Ultimate tiers.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-increasing-geforce-now-subscription-prices-in-some-regions
Phoronix reports that a new bug fix was introduced to Linux kernel 6.6 that rectifies an issue where instruction errors could occur in Linux when running STIBP off on Zen 4 CPUs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-squashes-bug-that-impacted-zen-4-security-features-in-linux
AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature tampers with Counter Strike 2's DLLs, resulting in a VAC ban.