Zak Killian
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If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important stuff to a NAS, a second PC, external...
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Do you have a Socket AM5 system? Do you play games on it? Do you have a 3D V-Cache processor? If the answers to those questions are YYN like some kind of Rush song with the third part turned sideways, then you should absolutely check out...
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The newly released $599 MacBook Neo might be an iPhone chip slapped into a low-cost Mac chassis with passive cooling, but it's shockingly competent as long as you accept its limitations. YouTuber and PCGamingWiki founder Andrew Tsai...
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If you're reading this right now, there's a very good chance that you were one of many millions of children to grow up with LEGO as one of your favorite toys. The Danish plastic connecting bricks are a timeless classic, and no doubt many...
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It's been a wild, news-packed week so far, with lots of announcements coming out of the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Besides NVIDIA's news yesterday and Intel's new CPUs today, Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, officially...
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If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gaming performance lift compared to Intel's previous generation chips. Well...
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In case you haven't heard, this week is GDC, the Game Developers Conference, not to be confused with GTC, the Graphics Technology Conference—that one is next week. Naturally, NVIDIA's present at GDC in a big way, and the company has some...
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If I'm offering to sell you a laptop, and I tell you that the laptop has 1.1 TB of storage, you would likely expect that it has a 1TB SSD and perhaps another, smaller SSD. Well, don't get tricked by sketchy listings like this one that...
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In case you missed the memo, Intel's been kicking butt in the mobile arena lately. Its Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors offered a great blend of CPU compute, GPU horsepower, and excellent power efficiency, and the latest Core Ultra...
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Samsung officially announced its latest Galaxy S26 family of devices last week, powered by an exclusive version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform. The lineup consists of the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra ($1299)...
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If you read the headline and, like me, thought 'What the heck is a CQDIMM?', I'm here to tell you it's actually not that complicated. ASRock is using the term CQDIMM to refer to standard CUDIMMs that have four memory ranks, making them...
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We've already reported a few times on SOCAMM2 memory, so if you're not familiar, check out one or all of these stories. The last of those links goes to a story about Micron sampling 192GB SOCAMM2 modules. Well, as you've already read in...
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This story probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who pays attention to desktop APUs, but the news is simple: the new Ryzen AI 400 desktop processors that AMD just launched don't come with a full complement of PCIe lanes. In fact...
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AMD isn't the only company launching non-mobile processors at Mobile World Congress 2026. Intel's got some hardware to show off today, too, in the form of the Xeon 6+ processors that we know better by their codename "Clearwater Forest"...
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AMD told us at CES 2026 that it would be bringing its Ryzen AI 400 processors to desktop at some point and the company announced those chips today at Mobile World Congress. Yes, indeed; AMD's bringing its latest mobile silicon to the...
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We've believed with confidence for a while now that Intel was bringing out its BMG-G31 "Big Battlemage" GPU as the Arc Pro B70 first, foremost, and possibly exclusively. Now we have explicit proof straight from Intel, in the form of the...
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At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Lenovo is doing what it does best: iterating on the workhorse gear that actually pays the bills while sprinkling in some wild, future-facing AI concepts to keep things interesting.
The...
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Traditional cryptographic signatures that underpin HTTPS can be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer using algorithms like Shor's, threatening the trust model of secure connections. To help protect against this threat, Google...
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You're probably expecting us to be talking about one of the extant Bartlett Lake processors based on re-reheated Raptor Lake silicon. Nope! This is a Core 9 273PQE, one of the long-rumored 12 P-core LGA 1700 CPUs. However, lest you accuse...
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Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers are massive. The Agility SDK allows...
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AMD's FSR 4 is a massive evolution from the company's previous-generation upscalers, and the leap in quality is directly attributable to the use of AI versus the older deterministic upscalers. That doesn't mean AMD is resting on its...
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You know who ASML is, right? For those who are just joining us, ASML is the guys who make the tools that the TSMC and Intel and Samsung guys use to make their bleeding-edge chips. The Dutch company is the only firm in the world capable of...
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