Zak Killian
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If you want to play retro games and want them to look accurate, in-line with the original designers' intentions, you pretty much need a CRT. You can get by with emulation and smart filters that simulate scan lines and other effects, but...
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The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound...
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Having spent a few hours in direct, deep performance and image quality testing, I'm here to tell you the unvarnished truth about NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering for GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. Today's the day that you too can officially...
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Microsoft has announced that starting with October's Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 will automatically enable Memory Integrity on all eligible PCs where the feature is currently turned off. Also known as Hypervisor-protected Code...
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Dell's Alienware gaming brand has emerged as one of the leading vendors catering to gamers looking for legitimately high-end displays with real gaming chops in the last several years. The firm's got three fancy new monitors for us to talk...
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Following the reveal of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 in March, reactions were mixed to say the least. Some users responded with enthusiastic praise, eagerly awaiting the next leap in graphical fidelity. Others responded with sharp criticisms, some...
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Fifth-generation DDR SDRAM, known more commonly as DDR5, launched in its "LP" form with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 in February of 2020. Those chips were first found in the Xiaomi Mi 10 smartphone. It's been almost seven years since then...
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HP HyperX Omen 15 Gaming Laptop - Image: HotHardware HP HyperX Omen 15: Starting at $1,029, as tested $2,099 HP's latest-generation Omen gaming laptop gets HyperX branding and a slightly smaller form factor, making it downright pleasant to...
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It has become almost customary this generation for new video games to target 60 FPS, if not in general then at least with a 'Performance Mode' which may or may not actually reach that value on the contemporary game consoles. Because of the...
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If you're still running Windows 10 on your gaming PC, I don't blame you, but you should be aware that Microsoft has terminated mainstream support for your operating system. Unless you've signed up for Extended Security Updates, you're...
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On Monday, we reported on SiFive's move to bring the open-source RISC-V CPU architecture into the datacenter with the BigSky server platform, and as part of that reporting, we mentioned that SiFive had also partnered with NVIDIA to...
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If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably read that headline and said "well yeah?", while if you don't follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably have no idea what we're talking about. Here's the short version: AMD's...
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Gamescom 2026 has been a whirlwind of gaming news, but we're HotHardware, not HotGaming, so let's talk about the cutting-edge gear on display at the show. The Republic of Gamers brought more than its fair share of legitimately innovative...
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What kind of hardware do you need for AI processing? Well, every kind, because "AI processing" is a very broad term. Unlike a lot of specialized AI chips (e.g. d-Matrix Raptor), though, Intel's Crescent Island seems fit to serve many of...
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When NVIDIA revealed its DLSS Ray Reconstruction, the collective response from the gaming community was essentially "huh, neat." See, while DLSS Ray Reconstruction gives marked improvements in ray-traced lighting effects across the...
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In AI inference, you have two phases of the workload: prefill and decode. In most cases, decode is overwhelmingly the more time-consuming portion of the workload because it's strictly memory-bandwidth bound. You can have all the compute in...
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When you look at a high-end product like the GPD WIN Max 3, you expect a price premium. It's not as slim and trim as the GPD WIN 5 sporting the same silicon, but the micro-laptop form factor of the WIN Max 3 means that it's considerably...
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Today, the house of Radeon has just released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1. This new driver package brings support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy as well as the X-COM-like Star Wars Zero Company and Call of Duty: Modern...
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How's your Throwback Thursday going? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an anecdote about his days at Intel as part of...
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Last May, CLEARresult, the agency that operates the popular 80 PLUS power supply certification program, unveiled the new 80 PLUS Ruby tier which drops down on top of the stack with the most stringent certification requirements yet. We...
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Hardware enthusiasts and regular HotHardware readers will already be well aware that we're eagerly awaiting the next-generation showdown between Intel's Nova Lake processors and AMD's Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs, either very late this year or...
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A netizen going by the rather punny name of "Cyberleek" has so far posted up two short videos and an image that appear to be from an in-production build of Grand Theft Auto VI. These leaks are definitely much newer than the previous leaks...
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