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This Chinese NAND maker just overtook Sandisk and Micron to become the third biggest storage player

China's YMTC surpasses Sandisk and Micron, claiming the third spot in global NAND storage market share, behind Samsung and SK Hynix.

PlayStation 5 console severely overheats, as liquid metal compound eats heatsink

A CFI-1116 PS5 suffered from severe overheating, due to a liquid metal chemical reaction that left permanent scars on the heatsink’s base plate.

Modder turbocharges Steam Machine with Radeon RX 9070 XT, gives stock GPU a paddling

While it's possible to pair the Steam Machine with an external graphics card, the process isn't exactly seamless.

You could buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU for just £1, as MSI opens UK store

MSI celebrates its UK store opening by allowing you to score parts for just £1, plus the possibility to deduct £20 from purchases over £150.

Xbox PC Game Pass titles could soon be playable on Steam Deck, thanks to this Linux project

Xbox and PC Game Pass titles may be become unofficially playable soon on Linux, with the Xodus open-source project already being able to download games.

Average Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 GPU prices rise by up to 39% over just two months

The Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has seen the biggest recent price increase, but other cards in the GeForce series aren't far behind.

Windows 11 weather app takes 1.2GB of RAM, 5x more than macOS equivalent

Windows 11's built-in weather app wastes loads of RAM, even before any user interaction, due to its web-based design, on top of showing ads.

Gigabyte returns to DDR4 with refreshed B760M Gaming motherboard, complete with PCIe 5.0 support

Gigabyte relaunches an Intel B760M motherboard for users on tight budgets, offering DDR4 memory support alongside the latest PCIe 5.0 interface.

Noctua highlights loads of CPU cooler height inaccuracies in PC case specs

After manually measuring over 100 PC cases, Noctua found at least 56 examples where the actual CPU cooler height didn't match the specs.