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All dressed up and nowhere to go sums up the Meta Quest 3.
The Asus ROG Swift PG27UCWM is a 27-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with Tandem RGB Stripe tech, 240 Hz at 4K, 480 Hz at FHD, Adaptive-Sync, G-Sync, FreeSync, wide gamut color, HDR 400, HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
The Dell Pro 5 webcam is an office-oriented 2K webcam with a physical privacy shutter, a built-in mic, and Windows Hello compatibility.
CPUs
Following rumors of a Nova Lake desktop SKU with 12 Xe3P cores, tipster Jaykihn suggests that Intel has canned the design and moved the target to next-gen Razor Lake instead.
Deals The Ryzen 7 9850X3D may only be a modest step up from the 9800X3D, but it still leads our gaming benchmarks and now comes with a couple of useful extras at a lower-than-launch price.
Graphics Cards
Redditor reported that Nvidia allegedly rejected their warranty claims for GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards because the serial number on the bracket was unreadable.
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Premium We chatted with Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Jeff Leinbaugh about launching the Steam Frame amid a global memory/storage supply crunch
PC Components
Already tested by AMD and Intel, but supply will depend on demand.
For smaller device manufacturers, rising memory prices are only part of the problem as limited availability forces companies to rethink everything from motherboard designs to procurement strategies.
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