Biwin Black Opal NV7400 2TB SSD Review: Another Arrow in Biwin’s Quiver

The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides.

Leaker claims AMD Zen 6 will feature 48MB of L3 cache — keeping L3 cache-to-core ratio the same as Zen 5 with Zen 6’s 12-core CCD

A new rumor suggests that AMD will be upgrading Zen 6 to 48MB of L3 cache to compensate for the four additional cores that will be introduced to Zen 6’s CCD.
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Big three memory chip manufacturers policing customers to prevent hoarding — employee says industry relationships ‘matter in a crunch’

The big three memory chip makers are reportedly becoming stricter when it comes to who buys their chips, ensuring that the demand is real before allowing customers to get them.
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Apple chasing memory supply to meet high customer demand — CEO Tim Cook says shortage will have a greater impact on its Q2 earnings

Apple’s CEO says that it’s scrambling for memory as the higher-than-anticipated iPhone sales mean that it has “very lean channel inventory.”
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The Stout Owl: How I Built the Ultimate Noctua G2 PC

Somebody once gave me free will, and it was universally agreed that this was a bad idea.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops within dollars of all-time low price in wake of 9850X3D launch — previous gaming champ now down to $443 from $479

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D hits retail for $499, while the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s price has gone down to $443.

TeamGroup NV5000 2TB SSD Review: A Blast from the Past

The TeamGroup NV5000 is a storage device first and an SSD second. It fulfills the function that older SSDs did and without using any truly new hardware.
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Cooler Master Elite NEX W600 power supply review: Affordable, but with outdated design

The Cooler Master Elite NEX W600 offers an outdated design with minimal features that struggle to justify its existence in the modern PSU market.
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Where to buy AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D — the new king of gaming CPUs

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor is AMD’s latest CPU release. Here’s where you can pick one up.

Here are the tools I use as Tom’s Hardware resident CPU reviewer — a cheap aluminum open bench, thermal paste wipes, platform-labeled external power buttons, and more

Benchmarking CPUs for Tom’s Hardware requires more than just running a few tests. Here’s how I get through our 10-hour benchmarking gauntlet for each chip efficiently.
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