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SPEC Consortium Releases SPEC CPU 2026 Benchmark Suite: The Next Decade of CPU Benchmarking

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After nearly a decade, SPEC has released a new version of its industry-defining CPU benchmark, SPEC CPU 2026. We take a look at what’s new, as well as the new benchmark’s performance on a modern AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA CPU trio

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HP ZGX Nano G1n Review The HP Take on the NVIDIA GB10

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Looking at the state of the NVIDIA GB10 ecosystem several months down the line, there are a couple of things that have continued to surprise us. The first has been the sheer popularity of the small-form-factor systems, which have seen GB10 boxes from multiple vendors sell almost as fast as they can be produced for […]

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Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 Review Portably Powerful

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We review the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3, a powerful Intel Arrow Lake-HX mobile workstation laptop with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU

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Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 OC Low Profile 8G Mini-Review

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Catering to the small form factor PC market, Gigabyte has released a low-profile version of its GeForce RTX 5060 card. The RTX 5060 OC LP delivers all of the performance of a full-sized card, but in half the volume

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Review: Going A Bit Higher

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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors are by now well into the second half of their lifecycle as AMD’s leading-edge desktop chips. With a complete product stack in play – ranging from 6 up to 16 CPU cores on a single chip – In most generations this would be where AMD would stand pat on […]

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AOC 16T20 Portable Monitor Mini Review

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Recently, we purchased a handful of portable flat-panel monitors. Among these was AOC’s 16T20, an entry-level offering that sports a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS panel. Currently priced just $49 on Amazon (at the time of writing), the 16T20 is amongst the cheapest 1080p portable monitors on the market, offering a relatively bare feature set in exchange […]

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Intel Launches Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” Mobile Processors for Low-Cost Laptops

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Intel this week is expanding its 2026 mobile processor lineup with the release of the Core Series 3 processors, Intel’s lower-power, lower-cost offshoot of their flagship Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) silicon. Codenamed “Wildcat Lake”, the Series 3 processors are aimed at the budget and low-power computing markets, with Intel scaling down all of […]

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MikroTik CRS418-8P-8G-2S+5axQ2axQ-RM Review The All-in-One PoE Switch Router with WiFi 6

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The MikroTik CRS418-8P-8G-2S+5axQ2axQ-RM is an all-in-one PoE+ switch with 10GbE SFP+ links, WiFi, and that can even serve as a router

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Dell Pro Rugged 12 Tablet Review The Resilient Road Warrior

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Today we are taking a look at something a little different for ServeTheHome with Dell’s Pro Rugged 12 Tablet. The flagship model of Dell’s ruggedized hardware lineup, Dell’s toughly-armored tablet is aimed at the most extreme segment of road warriors: namely, those who need a Windows tablet or 2-in-1 that can stand up to brutal […]

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Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and B65 Video Cards: Big Battlemage Brings Big Memory for AI Workstations

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Today Intel is expanding their Arc B-series video card lineup in a big way, with the launch of a pair of new Arc Pro graphics cards: the Arc Pro B70 and the Arc Pro B65. Joining Intel’s existing Arc Pro B-series video cards, the latest cards out of Intel are also the company’s most powerful […]

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Beelink ME Pro Review A Small and Focused NAS That We Set Up with OpenClaw

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In our Beelink ME Pro review, we see how this is a small and low power NAS. We also let OpenClaw set it up as a Proxmox VE homelab node

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NVIDIA DGX Station Systems Available At Last GB300 and GB200 Workstations For Your Desktop

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While the bulk of NVIDIA’s focus at their most recent GTC trade show has been on their forthcoming Vera Rubin platform for obvious reasons, right now in the present the company is still in the middle of delivering their Grace Blackwell family of offerings. This includes the GB300 Blackwell Ultra accelerator itself, as well as […]

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NVIDIA’s Vera CPU in Detail: High Perf Chip Takes Aim at Broader AI Server Market

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While NVIDIA is best known as a GPU company for obvious reasons, the company has now spent almost half of its existence trying to branch into the CPU market as well. From early forays into processor designs with Denver – and ambitions of x86 processors unrealized – through multiple generations of Tegra SoCs, and now […]

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Decoding the Future of Inference At NVIDIA: Groq LPUs Join Vera Rubin Platform For Low-Latency Inference

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With its upcoming Vera Rubin rackscale architecture, NVIDIA is going to be integrating LPUs from acquihire Groq, marking a major expansion beyond using GPUs alone for AI inference

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NVIDIA GTC 2026 Keynote Live Coverage

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It is that time of the year again. No, not Christmas (unless you are an AI developer, at any rate), but rather NVIDIA’s annual GTC conference for all things NVIDIA. As has become an annual tradition for us at STH, we are are covering the 2026 GTC keynote live, to catch all the latest and […]

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Intel Intros Core Ultra 250K & 270K Plus Chips, Refreshing Desktop Arrow Lake for Enthusiasts

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With Intel’s latest-generation Panther Lake silicon (Core Ultra 3 series) being a mobile-only product generation, the task of carrying the torch for Intel’s desktop product lineup falls to the company’s existing Arrow Lake processors (Core Ultra 2 series) for a second year. A technologically solid but overall unexceptional processor lineup, Arrow Lake’s desktop existence has […]

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Lenovo ThinkStation PGX Review The NVIDIA GB10 128GB AI Workstation Goes Corporate

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We test the Lenovo ThinkStation PGX, a NVIDIA GB10-based 128GB small AI workstation with a fast Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 200G networking

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