Hardware roundup: Sugon loses its IO500 Production lead
The storage benchmark has moved SCNet's Sugon-based results to its Research list. Also in this roundup: MSI's 34-inch QD-OLED work monitor and Sharge's SSD hub.
Saya
Saya is an electronics engineer with over 30 years of gaming under his belt and 20 years of work experience. He founded PC Tech Vault in 2005 an avid fan of NVIDIA graphics card. When you spend your career debugging hardware from the ground up, you develop strong opinions about GPU architecture, driver stacks, and why certain design decisions aged badly. He built low-level GPU and VRAM diagnostic tools back when that was not something you could just download, ran a forum community that ranged from complete beginners to BIOS tweakers, and never really stopped caring about what NVIDIA puts on the silicon. The site is his attempt to build the reference hub he once founded back in 2005.
AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F Lands on Ten-Year-Old AM4
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CUDA 13.4 Brings Windows on Arm to RTX Spark
The toolkit that makes RTX Spark laptops buildable before they ship, a first Rubin preview, and a Linux install that stops carrying its own driver.
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Kioxia Moves Its 100 Million IOPS SSD to 2028
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An Unnamed x86 CPU Has Run Legacy-Free for a Year
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A ReShade Mod Runs DLSS 5 on a Second GPU
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