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Maximize Your Performance with These 7 Best Internal Hard Drives for Gaming in 2025
Introduction Passionate gamers fully understand how effortless gameplay and rapid loading screens are not optional in 2025. Although the term internal hard drives used to refer to spinning disk drives (HDDs), in this age, for gaming performance, the category primarily consists of SSDs, particularly NVMe drives. These cutting-edge storage systems are vital for what optimizing…
Asus ROG G700 review: Premium performance at a sensible price
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Gaming PCs can come in multiple configurations, allowing for models for all types of people. Starting at $1,199.99 and scaling up to $2,749.99,…
“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance
Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program as part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). The well-attended event was held last month in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall within the new Edward…
Alienware AW3425DW WQHD QD-OLED review: Near-perfect color and premium performance
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Not long ago, gaming monitors came with lowered expectations from picky videophiles who place high contrast and accurate color at the top of…
Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance
Proton VPN stands out for two main reasons: it’s one of the only virtual private networks (VPNs) to include a free plan with no data limits, and it’s one of the few services majority-owned by a nonprofit. It’s the best VPN in both of those categories, and it makes a strong case for being the…
TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization
Introduction As large language models (LLMs) advance in software engineering tasks—ranging from code generation to bug fixing—performance optimization remains an elusive frontier, especially at the repository level. To bridge this gap, researchers from TikTok and collaborating institutions have introduced SWE-Perf—the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of LLMs to optimize code performance in…
Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance
Recent developments in LLMs show a trend toward longer context windows, with the input token count of the latest models reaching the millions. Because these models achieve near-perfect scores on widely adopted benchmarks like Needle in a Haystack (NIAH) [1], it’s often assumed that their performance is uniform across long-context tasks. However, NIAH is fundamentally…
Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance
Intel has published a paper about its 18A (1.8nm-class) fabrication process at the VLSI 2025 symposium, consolidating all its information about the manufacturing technology into a single document. The new 18A production node is expected to deliver significant improvements in power, performance, and area over its predecessor, increasing density by 30% while enhancing performance by…
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: plenty of performance with 16GB
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB arrives as the far better and more attractive mainstream GPU option — the one the market…
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Repository backups are a critical component of any robust disaster recovery strategy. However, as repositories grow in size, the process of creating reliable backups becomes increasingly challenging. Our own Rails repository was taking 48 hours to back up — forcing impossible choices between backup frequency and system performance. We wanted to tackle this issue for…