Zak Killian
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Today we have a bit different of a deals post for you. Rather than focusing on budget-priced 'good enough' hardware, we've got some seriously speedy storage on sale. PCI Express 5.0 SSDs offer transfer rates as high as 14.8 GB/second when...
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Here's a super-fast recap on what has already been leaked about AMD's next-generation Ryzen processors, built using its Zen 6 processor core: the core is codenamed "Morpheus," client processors are codenamed "Medusa", and all of them are...
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Back when we wrote our Nintendo Switch 2 review roundup, we noted that variable refresh rate (VRR) display output was not supported by the official dock, and we posited the idea that perhaps using a third-party dock or simply a USB-C to...
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A new gene therapy has shown promising results in restoring hearing to children, teens, and even a young adult born with a rare form of inherited deafness. Researchers in China tested the treatment on ten patients aged between 18 months...
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Rockstar Games has just dropped what might be the weirdest Red Dead Online patch yet. Titled Strange Tales of the West, the "weird West"-themed update adds a series of Telegram Missions featuring everything supernatural, from shambling...
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If you keep up with PC gaming news, you're almost assuredly aware that when NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, it also released "DLSS 4", with Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) and a new Transformer-based model for Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction. The part you...
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If you're still holding on to your beloved Pascal (GTX 10) or Maxwell (GTX 900/750) GeForce card, the next driver update you get will probably be the last one. It's kind of incredible that NVIDIA is still offering driver updates for these...
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AMD has held the upper hand in PC gaming for years now, thanks to its X3D processors and their massive 3D V-Cache. By stacking extra cache on top of the CPU, AMD drastically cuts memory latency—arguably the biggest performance bottleneck...
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Micron's newly announced 2600 series of NVMe SSDs is a set of PCIe Gen4 drives the company says delivers TLC-like performance while retaining the cost efficiency of QLC NAND. The key to that claim? A new in-house caching approach dubbed...
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You may recall that earlier this year your author here was quite excited about the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds. That enthusiasm, like much of the community's, was somewhat muted after we actually put a few dozen hours into the game...
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The concept of a full hard drive might become a thing of the past sooner than you think. In a massive leap forward for data storage, scientists have developed a new type of molecular magnet that could pave the way for hard drives with a...
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If you read that headline and got excited while thinking we were seeing the return of LucidLogix and its "Hydra" or "Virtu" technology, then I'm sorry to say this isn't nearly that cool. It is pretty funny, though: a Redditor purchased a...
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HP Omen Max 16 RTX 5090 Gaming Laptop: Starting at $2599, $4639 as tested HP's fastest-ever gaming laptop impresses with sharp looks, a superior display, and bestial gaming performance. Killer Gaming Performance Surprisingly Compact For This Speed Awesome OLED HDR Contrast & Response...
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If you're reading this site, chances are high that you're familiar with the saga of melting power connectors on modern high-end NVIDIA GPUs. We've already written very extensively about this problem, but what if you could entirely avoid it...
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SEGA's fiscal year 25 ended at the end of March of this calendar year, and the long-lived game publisher posted up its financial results in May. While looking over them, ResetEra forum user "--R" noticed that one of the documents, on a...
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It's been about two weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 went on sale, and if you're someone who specifically enjoys Nintendo games, you've already got one. Though there are plenty of other game console options out there, there's likely a...
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Before we get into this news, let's talk about HDMI 2.2, since we didn't actually cover its launch. HDMI 2.2 was indeed unveiled at CES, just as was rumored in December, and it brings along two major new features: the HDMI Latency...
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At this year's VLSI Symposium in Kyoto, Intel offered a closer look at what to expect from its next-gen 18A manufacturing node. The biggest takeaway is that Panther Lake, the follow-up to last year's Lunar Lake, is shaping up to be a...
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There has been a major emphasis from hardware vendors lately, especially NVIDIA, on the technique of interpolation, better known as frame generation. Whether using AI as in NVIDIA and Intel's methods, or less complex frame interpolation as...
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AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards are a major step up from the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series across multiple key metrics, but arguably the most notable is the added support for the company's FSR4 upscaling...
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We're welding together a few different Nova Lake rumors in this coverage. Keep in mind that everything here is totally unsubstantiated rumor, so keep the salt shaker handy, but they do come from sources that have been reliable in the past...
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For high-end gaming PCs, many users will immediately flock to AMD's CPUs with 3D V-Cache, but for an entry-level machine, you can often do better for the money with prior-gen Intel hardware. A good example is the ten-core Core i5-12600K at...
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