Chris Harper
Recent posts
Over the weekend, Twitter user @phantomofearth noticed that a classic Windows Vista Ultimate feature had been added back into the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build— video wallpapers. Video wallpapers, also called live wallpapers...
Read more...
Since the AMD FSR 4 INT8 DLL leak, we've known that it's possible to use FSR 4 on older GPU architectures than RDNA 4. Recently, we've actually seen successful use of FSR 4 on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, after early efforts resulted in...
Read more...
A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with "a mix of...
Read more...
The market for PC gaming hardware, including systems and accessories, is projected to grow by 35% in 2025 by Jon Peddie Research. This data is considered "conservative in relation to total PC hardware expenditure", and is attributed by the...
Read more...
Microsoft is initiating a second price hike on its existing series of Xbox consoles sold in the US, raising prices of all Xbox Series S|X models starting on October 3rd, 2025. For the Xbox Series S 512GB, the price is increasing from...
Read more...
Another week, another AI integration—now, market-leading browser Google Chrome is finally on the update list and facing a full suite of new Gemini AI features to be added in the near future. Over the past few days, Google has been...
Read more...
AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the...
Read more...
The Apollo Team behind the Vampire V4 just launched preorders for a new, all-in-one modern Amiga, dubbed the Apollo V4 A6000, which is built atop the Apollo V4 platform. The V4 platform, like other standalone boards and Apollo...
Read more...
Yesterday, the official Borderlands X account finally spoke up about the performance issues that gamers have been reporting on console and PC since Borderlands 4 launched, taking a much calmer approach than Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford...
Read more...
Update @5PM on 9/17/25: ASUS has responded to this report on its official Twitter account, acknowledging these reported issues and investigating the cause and potential fixes.
If you've noticed odd stutters or audio crackles when using...
Read more...
Today, Minisforum formally announced and shared details of its MS-S1 Max Mini PC, a characteristically compact machine with the formidable Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SoC and a built-in 320W PSU. This mini-PC also features a full-length PCI Express...
Read more...
Yesterday on Reddit, intrepid user u/AthleteDependent926 posted a bombshell to the r/Radeon subreddit: AMD's FSR 4 source code leak in August contained all the files needed to run FSR 4 with older GPU hardware. Doing so requires the use of...
Read more...
Spotify is upgrading its services— just after finally adding lossless streaming for Premium users earlier this month, thankfully without a price bump, they're also removing a key shackle from Spotify's free tier. Now, Spotify's free users...
Read more...
Over in the UK, quantum computing company Quantum Motion has debuted an industry-first quantum computer, manufactured entirely with a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process. This fabrication process, which is also used for...
Read more...
Yesterday, eager eyes noticed that Rockstar Games had made a job listing for Lead Software Engineer, claiming within that Grand Theft Auto 6 would be "the largest game launch in history"— but just a day later, the text within that job...
Read more...
As of this week, the best-selling workstation GPU on popular PC products retailer Newegg isn't from one of the usual suspects AMD or NVIDIA. Instead, Intel has secured the crown by nailing a key, neglected budget segment in the workstation...
Read more...
In the last couple of days, some rather interesting Geekbench results for Apple's new A19 Pro chip were posted to Geekbench's results browser, and made their way to social media. These synthetic Geekbench results, one for the CPU and one...
Read more...
Yesterday, NVIDIA began mysteriously delisting the Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 from its website, but only in select regions, and not always both cards. In the United States and United Kingdom, both cards are no...
Read more...
Russian YouTuber VIK-on recently released a video showcasing his modded NVIDIA RTX 4090, doubling its VRAM to 48GB from its already-beefy base 24GB. To pull it off, VIK-on needed to source a couple of 4090s, a standard model and a modified...
Read more...
Starting yesterday, Google began rolling out a new feature to Gmail users across mobile and desktop alike— an overhaul to Gmail's purchase and delivery tracking functionality. Previously, Gmail would highlight deliveries set to arrive...
Read more...
Eighteen months into a deliberate QD-OLED burn-in test, Hardware Unboxed (through their secondary Monitors Unboxed channel) has returned with an update on the MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED's burn-in. The deliberate burn-in test encompasses 8...
Read more...
This week, Valve's Steam Deck and Steam Client are both seeing updates for the month of September, with updates for Steam Deck mirroring those for the Steam Client on Windows and Linux, with some platform-specific differences we'll be...
Read more...
