Zak Killian
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You're a PC gamer. Maybe you're new to the hobby, or maybe you've been blasting away on your old faithful peripherals: an ancient 1080p LCD monitor, the rubber dome keyboard you stole from the office, an Xbox 360 gamepad where one of the bumpers doesn't work right. Look, brother — it's time to...
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Intel's foundry arm says it has crossed a major lithography milestone: it has announced successful acceptance testing of ASML's TWINSCAN EXE:5200B High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) EUV scanner, one of the most advanced chipmaking tools...
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The problem with a memory shortage is that virtually every single part of a computer uses memory in some way. That, obviously, includes graphics cards, and despite the author's earlier optimism that GDDR might be one of the less-affected...
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You may not realize it, but we've been here doing our thing at HotHardware since 1999; we remember the good (and bad) old days of the PC enthusiast scene. There was a time when graphics cards were a wild market. You could find Quantum3D...
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Have you looked at the price of RAM lately? Retail prices for desktop DDR5 memory kits are three to five times what they were just a month ago. Building a PC has gone from "your GPU should be the most expensive component" to "make sure to...
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NVIDIA has announced the release of Nemotron 3, the latest generation in its ongoing Nemotron line of large language models (LLMs). It presents the new models as open, high-efficiency building blocks for agentic AI systems. The first model...
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AMD's business is growing rapidly, and that means it needs more employees. The company is hiring for many positions on its website, and this is a frequent area of interest for leaksmen trying to find interesting info about the company's...
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The year is 2013. Valve Software, whose Steam digital delivery service has just hit the ten-year mark, has decided it's time to launch a series of gaming PCs, along with a custom operating system. The project continues through 2015 and but...
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It's really important to keep things in context when you're looking at hardware benchmarks. Desktop CPUs often operate with essentially unlimited power and thermal budgets, so it's simply not fair to compare them against laptop chips that...
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The overall quality of the Windows experience is at a historic low point, due to increasing concerns over AI and feature bloat, and a long list of crippling bugs. With that in mind, many PC gamers are looking longingly at Linux, and the alternative OS is picking up steam in terms of...
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A key argument in the battle between NVIDIA's GeForce GPUs and AMD's Radeon graphics products is that NVIDIA offers superior software support. That's not necessarily true, though. AMD's made great strides in driver and software quality in...
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If you read that headline and thought, ‘Oh yeah, so what?’ then you're probably not too familiar with gaming handhelds. These devices have cooling apparatus of impressive efficiency given the extremely limited space they have to work in...
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Put your wallet away; it's another leak post, not an official announcement. However, maybe keep the billfold in arm's reach, because it's looking like it won't be long now before we see Intel's "Big Battlemage" GPU. The latest leak comes...
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This might just be the most will-they-or-won't-they GPU release story of all time. Intel's Arc Battlemage was rumored to come in two different versions as soon as we ever heard about it, but the larger "BMG-G31" chip never materialized and...
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As far as anyone outside AMD knows, Team Red's next processor releases will be the Gorgon Point family, which is a refresh of Strix Point. "Refresh" doesn't necessarily mean "rebadged," though. Sometimes refreshes can come with significant...
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We've been eagerly looking forward to the OneXFly Apex handheld because it's one of the most interesting of the announced PC gaming portables to use AMD's Ryzen AI Max processors, codenamed Strix Halo. We've been so interested in it, we've...
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Having a retro PC is awesome, because it lets you experience classic games as they were intended to be, on the original hardware. Maintaining one is a pain, though; beyond all the issues with using 25-plus-year-old hardware, you've also...
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If you're chomping at the bit for Panther Lake performance leaks, well, put that filthy thing away for a moment and come take a look. A result for a Core Ultra 7 366H has popped up in the Geekbench database, and we've taken the time to...
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Let's talk about the latest AI models, which are mostly powered by something called a "Mixture of Experts" design. Mixture of Experts (MoE) is a form of model sparsity, but we'll talk about that more in a minute. The key takeaways from...
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Infamous gaming pawn shop chain GameStop says someone just walked into its Grapevine, Texas headquarters and traded in a PSA-10 holographic Gengar, supposedly worth $33,883, and walked out with $30,494.70. In simpler terms: GameStop just...
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If you're looking at buying a new Ryzen CPU, the time is now, and we mean right now, as in literally within the next few hours. That's because AMD is expected to raise prices on its CPUs at the distributor level if it hasn't already done...
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Microsoft's big pitch for the future of Windows is that it's turning into an "agentic OS, " or a system where autonomous AI helpers don't just answer questions, but instead actually do things for you. They'll organize files, wrangle tasks...
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