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‘Don’t buy because you have to buy’ – Sapphire discourages panic buying amid RAM crisis

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Sapphire’s PR manager, Edward Crisler, urges consumers to avoid panic buying during the RAM crisisRAM prices are reaching unprecedented levels due to AI demandCrisler predicts pricing stability for RAM in the next six to eight monthsConcerns of RAM prices spiraling out of control due to the AI boom are running rampant among PC consumers, especially…

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6 Unexpected Practical Uses For Your Raspberry Pi

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Sabriel Smutny/Shutterstock The Raspberry Pi is a small-factor PC that can easily fit in your palm, but despite its miniature size, these computers can still pack a punch, with the latest Raspberry Pi 5 featuring 16GB of RAM and a quad-core processor, all for a reasonable price tag of $120. Even though these computers are…

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Avalanche Of Apple Departures Continues With Two More Executives

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Xeniia X/Shutterstock Apple on Thursday announced the impending departure of two longtime executives, Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams. Jackson is currently the company’s VP of Environmental, Policy, and Social Initiatives. Jackson originally joined Apple in May of 2013 and, in recent years, has become something of a familiar face in Apple’s self-produced videos where it…

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Buy a new PC now, or wait until 2027 – those are your options as component pricing woes intensify

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Micron has pulled the plug on its Crucial consumer RAMIt’s focusing on making RAM modules for data centers insteadThere are further tales of trouble in the memory world besides this, and also rumors of AMD Ryzen CPU price hikesPredictions for the pricing of PC components are becoming bleaker by the day, and now there’s a…

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Will spiralling RAM costs mean the PS5 could end up a better buy than a Steam Machine next year?

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RAM price hikes are now worryingly hefty at retailersSome RAM kits are double or closer to triple the cost they were just a couple of months agoThis could have a knock-on effect on the Steam Machine, but rumor has it Sony has played it smart by building up RAM supply for its consoleThere’s a new…

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Confused about Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super GPUs? I wouldn’t blame you, but new rumor of a delay to late 2026 makes sense

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Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refreshes are now rumored to arrive in Q3 2026A previous rumor that they were canceled has been denied by three separate sourcesThese GPUs still remain a rumor themselves, with no concrete confirmation or info piped through to graphics card makersNvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refreshes aren’t canceled, but they won’t be here…

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Can’t wait for the rumored RTX 5070 Super? Nvidia’s 18GB mid-range GPU isn’t happening anymore, we’re told – and you can blame AI

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Nvidia’s rumored RTX 5000 Super refreshes have been cannedFresh speculation claims the GPUs have been ditched due to poor VRAM supply levelsThe 3GB modules of GDDR7 required for the Super GPUs are better used in AI graphics cards, we’re toldNvidia may have canceled its RTX 5000 Super refresh going by the latest from the grapevine…

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If you own an RX 6000 GPU, here’s some bad news – AMD has ended support, and gifted Nvidia a victory in the process

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AMD no longer supports RX 6000 or earlier GPUs in its driversThose graphics cards are now in ‘maintenance mode’ so they don’t get new features or game optimizationsThey’ll still receive security patches, but these GPUs being pushed out of full support so soon has not gone down well with gamers who have themAMD is stopping…

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If this Apple M5 CPU benchmark leak is anything to go by, the new MacBook Pro is going to fly

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Apple’s M5 has appeared in a benchmark leak with GeekbenchIt posted an impressive single-core result for CPU performance, beating out Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoCThe M5 is also shown getting the better of some beefy desktop CPUs, but we need to tread carefully hereIf you were wondering how fast Apple’s new M5 chip…

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Is a perfect storm brewing for PC price hikes? I’m nervous that China’s new export controls could worsen pricing pressures on PC components

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China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elementsThose elements are used in making a whole lot of PC componentsThis could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAMIf you didn’t want to hear more negativity about further pressures…

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