Our review of Seagate’s latest FireCuda Gen4 DRAMless consumer SSD has left us somewhat perplexed, and quite frankly, a little surprised. Until we examined the controller used in this drive, we had long assumed that Seagate and Phison maintained a strategic, long-term partnership across their SSD product lines. This release appears to mark a significant …

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Not the first time seeing ridiculous prices for SSDs, but watching SATA SSDs going more expensive than M.2 SSDs is crazy. Micro Center Lists Samsung 870 EVO 1 TB SSD for $519, 2 TB for Over $1000, and 8 TB Edition for Over $4,000 When M.2 SSDs are Selling for Cheaper The SSD prices are shocking, and while we continue to see rising prices for both SATA and M.2 SSDs, SATA SSDs are going more expensive than the latter. The last month's glimpse of M.2 SSDs surprised us enough, but we didn't expect the SATA SSDs to make a bigger […]

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The bar has been raised and the 16 GB is no longer the "recommended" RAM capacity for PC gaming, at least as per Microsoft. Microsoft Recommends 32 GB for No-Compromise Gaming Experience; Calls 16 GB RAM as "Baseline" Nearly 10 years ago, 8 GB RAM would be sufficient for gaming systems, but as games, apps, and OS became more memory hungry, the bar was raised to 16 GB. 16 GB RAM is still a decent capacity for most gaming PCs, considering such systems don't have many problems with executing background tasks while more intensive tasks, such as games, are running […]

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One of the easiest mistakes to make when building or upgrading a PC is assuming that every M.2 slot on a motherboard is basically the same. After all, they all look nearly identical and take the same "gum stick-shaped" drives. Motherboard marketing pages love to list "4 x M.2" as though that number alone tells the whole story, but in practice, these slots can behave very differently. You could have a perfectly healthy, high-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) that performs well below expectations simply because it was installed in the wrong slot. If your shiny new PCI-Express […]

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The system integrator is deploying AMD's flagship Zen 5 X3D chip to deliver the best possible configuration available on the market. MAINGEAR Intros MG-1 Gaming Desktop With Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, Up To GeForce RTX 5090, and Up To 128 GB DDR5 Memory Popular system integrator, MAINGEAR, has introduced the MG-1 gaming desktop with new configuration, consisting of the recently launched AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. The MG-1 lineup already has plenty of configurations, including processors and GPUs from popular vendors like Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD, but with the launch of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, the system has now […]

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The Kioxia EG7 is a new lower-cost DRAM-less NVMe SSD for PC systems builders looking to lower costs of new systems

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