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Tom's Guide
21-07-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
The best back-to-school laptop of 2025 is cheaper than ever, $650 off a monster RX 9070 XT gaming PC and more — Power Picks
We're back with a bang. Today's power picks are significant, as you can get $200 off my favorite budget laptop (a great back-to-school buy), a beasty AMD RX 9070 XT gaming PC for $650 off, 35% off one of the best gaming mice you can buy, and much more! But first, I need to warn you about something in my first of a (hopefully) not long-running segment — bad deals watch. So I've seen certain tech sites covering this Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 deal for 74% off. It's a big number to brag about that does get you on Google News, but there are so many red flags that make this a do not buy. But I've found something that is so much better — cheaper, more powerful and brand new with an actual warranty. It's a great get for back to school or for all your productivity needs. Oh, and those power picks I found on Friday? Yeah, they're still available! That means you can still bad $700 off the MSI Aegis gaming PC with RTX 5070 power, and $200 off the M4 MacBook Pro. But for now, let's get into today's top deals. Dodge the other Slim 3 and look for the 'x,' because with this you're getting a seriously good powerhouse for dirt cheap. It's one of my favorite budget laptops for that Snapdragon X chip bringing impressive Arm performance across all your Windows apps, alongside 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and you're getting those fantastic keyboard and touchpad ergonomics that Lenovo is known for at $200 off! Armed with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, I can assure you this machine is capable of some truly supreme gaming performance from my testing. Ensuring zero bottlenecks in performance is the best gaming CPU you can buy right now — the Ryzen 7 7800X3D — alongside 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a spacious 2TB SSD. All is packed into a sleek case with plenty of cooling and a $650 discount for good measure! This is as close to MSRP as I've seen my favorite GPU, the RTX 5070 Ti, come. I always say prepare to be flexible by around $50, and this falls into that window nicely. With the power under the hood, 4K gaming is a cinch, and this one is overclockable with a three-fan cooling array to keep it from overheating under pressure. The first of a two-parter on the best gear for a wireless gaming setup. With 35% off the listing price, the Basilisk V3 Pro is an easy must-buy for those looking for ultimate game control with a 30K DPI optical sensor, optical switches with a great tactile feel, 13 programmable controls, and customizable RGB to blend it into your setup. Now for the audio part, and you can get $35 off the BlackShark V2 wireless headset to add a little extra Razer magic to your setup. At 280g, it's super lightweight on the head, but doesn't sacrifice any of the immersive sound quality for it — thanks to those huge 50mm drivers and THS Spatial Audio support. Plus with a 70-hour battery life, you've got worry-free stamina in all your sessions! Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Yahoo
AMD's RX 9070 GPUs could go on sale March 6, the day after Nvidia's RTX 5070 – and I wouldn't fret about those 900W power supply rumors
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. AMD RX 9070 GPUs are rumored to hit shelves on March 6 Another rumor suggests 9070 XT could need a 900W power supply That's for a top-end overclocked version of the 9070 XT, though, and there are numerous caveats to consider here AMD's Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards will get a full launch event on February 28, which has been confirmed by Team Red, and now chatter on the rumor mill is indicating these GPUs will be available to buy on March 6. That purported on-sale date comes courtesy of VideoCardz's sources, an assertion also backed up by Chinese tech site Benchlife. Even though these two rumors align, we should still take this with a great deal of caution. That said, AMD has told us that its RX 9070 models will go on sale in early March, which I take to mean the first week, and March 6 fits that picture. Still, we'll need confirmation officially, and presumably that'll come at the mentioned press event for RDNA 4 GPUs in late February. At the same time, more speculation is floating around regarding the power consumption of the RX 9070 XT, suggesting that one third-party variant has a big ask in terms of your PC's power supply. Tom's Hardware noticed a post on X from Tomasz Gawroński showing a purportedly leaked image of the PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil, with the packaging apparently indicating that you'll need a 900W PSU to have this graphics card in your gaming PC. This has raised plenty of eyebrows, as it's 100W more than the current recommendation for the RX 7900 XTX flagship, though even the poster admitted that they weren't sure if the image is faked. Interestingly, Frank Azor, who is head of consumer and gaming marketing at AMD, actually replied to Gawroński, observing that there will be other RX 9070 XT models that'll 'require lower minimum power supply wattages as will there be plenty with 8 pin power connectors for worry-free upgrading.' Note that Azor didn't confirm that the image was real, though the AMD executive didn't call it a fake, either (but of course, he doesn't work for PowerColor). The launch date of March 6 for the RX 9070 models, if it turns out to be correct, is certainly an interesting choice – mainly because Nvidia only just announced March 5 is when the RTX 5070 arrives on shelves. So, as we theorized earlier this week, this is looking very much like a mid-range head-to-head between the RX 9070 and RTX 5070 in the first week of March. As for the PSU requirement, I wouldn't panic about the potential scenario of RX 9070 models somehow requiring vast reservoirs of power. Some of the beefiest models may, but we must remember, the Red Devil board mentioned in the leak is a top-end graphics card, and as Azor observed, other models will require less wattage. Indeed, the rumor is that the reference 9070 XT from AMD will ask for a 750W PSU, with the RX 9070 vanilla needing 650W, far more modest requirements (add seasoning with that still). It's also worth noting that 900W is an odd specification here, given that there aren't any PSUs delivering that exact figure, as far as I'm aware. There are 850W models and then we jump to 1000W, so why PowerColor is (theoretically) placing the requirement just above 850W, in a non-existent PSU bracket (as it were), I'm not sure. This could perhaps be another suggestion that the image is faked. That said, I don't doubt that a heavily overclocked RX 9070 XT model will drink a lot more juice than a standard board. It clearly will, and so it wouldn't be a surprise if the top dogs of the RDNA 4 graphics card world are considerably more demanding on the PC's power supply. These GPUs will also cost a lot more than the entry-level 9070 XT products, too, and how competitive AMD's graphics cards will be in pricing terms is the other key question we're dying to have answered. We'll have those answers soon enough, thankfully. Roll on the end of February. We've barely seen AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs in action yet, but a new rumor suggests we could be getting an Nvidia RTX 5090 competitor at last Still worried RTX 5000 GPUs don't have enough VRAM? Nvidia's secret weapon is powerful AI texture compression, and it's calmed some of my fears AMD vs Nvidia: who is the graphics card champion?
