Zak Killian

Remember when AMD released the Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs and it turned out that some motherboards had broken over-current protection that resulted in a small spate of CPUs literally exploding? Well don’t worry, because this isn’t that same situation at all. Instead, it seems like there may be an issue with a specific production run of a particular Socket AM5 LGA guide. Over on Reddit, the comically named /u/TrumpPooPoosPants posted up pictures of his brand-new Ryzen

You remember yesterday, when we wrote about Micron’s new 6550 ION SSD and how it wasn’t exactly the biggest SSD we’d seen? Well, that was yesterday. Today, Solidigm is announcing a new model in the D5-P5336 SSD family with a whopping 122.88 terabytes of storage in a single drive, finally topping the Nimbus Exadrive. Micron still holds the lead in the newer E3.S form factor, but for U.2 drives and soon the slender E1.L form

When you think of bulk storage, you probably still think about hard drives, and that’s fair enough; spinning rust still offers superior value in terms of price per gigabyte. When storage density is more important than value, though, solid-state drives win again. That’s because there are SSDs like Micron’s new ION 6550, which can store up to 60TB in a 2.5″ form factor. While it isn’t the absolute largest single SSD we’ve ever seen—that honor

Have you ever read a monitor review or looked at monitor specification pages and wondered what all the terms meant? In this article, we’re going to go over display basics, explaining the core specifications of monitors and what you should look for when shopping for a new display. Most of the information and terminology in this post will apply to shopping for TVs and other screens as well. Welcome to Monitor and Display Specifications 101.

AMD’s Zen 5 processors have been out a few months, and you know what that means for journalists like us — it’s time to start looking to the future. The successor to the Zen 5 architecture will naturally be Zen 6, and while AMD has confirmed that detail, the company said nothing else about its next-generation CPU architecture. We know from earlier leaks that Zen 6 is called “Morpheus,” named after the god of dreams

Valve said it wasn’t going to make a new Steam Deck until there was a “significant” technical evolution, a step forward in terms of what capabilities the device would have. Other handheld vendors, particularly Ayaneo, aren’t so shy. The company is well known for its tendency to introduce new handheld models as often as the rest of us change underwear, but it’s actually only on the third iteration of its mainline handheld. We already wrote

Speaking plainly, Intel’s recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake”, weren’t quite what we expected out of this new generation of chips from Intel. While productivity and content creation performance was potent in some cases, gaming performance saw a significant regression. As it happens, Intel was as disappointed by some of these results just as the community was, and is apparently hot on the trail of root cause identification with a host of fixes

If you read HotHardware, you’re almost assuredly familiar with Lian Li. The company has been selling DIY PC cases basically as long as DIY PC building has been a hobby for enthusiasts, and was among the very first to offer aluminum chassis. What you may not know is that Lian Li has also been offering desk chassis for a long while at this point. A desk chassis is exactly what it sounds like: a desk

If you’re gearing up to buy a new graphics card, chances are that you’re probably hoping and praying that NVIDIA moves the price-to-performance curve with the GeForce RTX 5000 ‘Blackwell’ series. While the GeForce RTX 4000 ‘Ada Lovelace’ GPUs brought cool new features and an extremely efficient architecture to the table, performance per dollar barely moved below the $1,000 price point, and many users are still rocking older GPUs as a result. There could be

When we tested laptops based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors, we were very impressed overall with the performance and the battery life, as both were objectively excellent—mostly making good on Qualcomm’s claims. One sore spot in our testing, though, particularly around the top-end Snapdragon X Elite X1E-84-100 chip in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge, was that some of the applications we wanted to test simply could not run on that processor. The version of Windows