Zak Killian
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It probably won't surprise you to hear that AMD might be announcing new products at Computex. What might surprise you is that it's all but confirmed thanks to a slip-up at Biostar PR. The company posted a press release announcing its...
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A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest gain against Intel's mainstream...
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There's probably a lot of you gamers out there on older graphics card pondering an upgrade. Is it worth it? Or is it a waste of money? Well, in an attempt to answer that question for a fair few of you, we decided to do a head to head: the...
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It feels like I write a story about Imagination Technologies about once a year. ImgTec, as it's often called, is a company with a storied history, emerging as one of the founders of the PC gaming 3D accelerator ecosystem, before going on...
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AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300 processors currently represent the state of the art for AMD processor technology: piles of Zen 5 processor cores, a double-wide memory interface, a comically large integrated GPU, and dense silicon bridge...
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If you haven't put hands on a mobile device with an Intel Panther Lake processor yet, even the 4-Xe3-core configuration is surprisingly spry when it comes to gaming. The "X" models with the larger 12-core GPU are downright speedy, and...
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JEDEC is pushing server memory even faster with its next-generation DDR5 MRDIMM roadmap, and no, this probably isn't the kind of RAM you'll be dropping into your next gaming PC. The standards body announced new milestones for DDR5 MRDIMM...
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Have you ever been using a machine with an Intel wireless adapter and had a Bluetooth device simply disappear on you? It's been an issue for a while, particularly when you're using 2.4G Wi-Fi at the same time as Bluetooth. Microsoft issued...
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HP OMEN MAX 45L Gaming Desktop: $6894 As Tested HP's most powerful pre-built gaming PC impresses with gorgeous looks, silent operation, and great performance, all wrapped up in a reasonably-priced package considering the hardware on offer...
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It may be hard to believe, but this August will be eight years since the release of the original GeForce RTX GPUs. Over time, matrix math accelerators have come to consume more and more of our GPU dies, and not just NVIDIA's either; both...
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If you bought some slow RAM to save money during the ongoing RAMageddon, you could manually overclock it to achieve greater memory performance. Alternatively, you could use an automatic overclock tool, like ASUS' AEMP. In a new Reddit...
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People have been inferring and implying the death of Intel's Arc graphics brand since before the first Arc GPUs even hit store shelves. After Alchemist was released to a lukewarm reception, people insisted that Battlemage wouldn't come...
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Ever since Windows 10 released back in 2015, Microsoft's Windows Update feature has been extremely contentious. There were complaints with the system (which debuted in Windows XP in 2001) before, but since Windows 10, the updates have been...
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Remember when LPDDR memory was just strictly meant for thin-and-light laptops and smartphones? Those days are officially over. While we originally saw JEDEC unleash the foundational LPDDR6 standard in July of last year to fuel faster...
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According to the latest leaks, Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs will see a bit of a shake-up in their motherboard chipset market segmentation strategy. The usual source for Intel leaks, Jaykihn, says that the next-gen Z970 chipset...
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If you are a HotHardware reader, there's a pretty good chance I don't need to tell you that for a few generations, AMD has been leading Intel in PC gaming CPU performance. Well, according to Intel's Robert Hallock, this is not because AMD...
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OpenAI has unveiled Images 2.0, the latest evolution of its image generation technology, positioning it as a major step forward in realism, accuracy, and usability for real-world creative tasks. The update, built on the company's newer...
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If you're an Android user who has been looking longingly at an iPad Pro and wishing you could score such a device without buying into the Apple ecosystem, fret not, as ASUS is evidently readying the device of your dreams. A new leak from...
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Hey Android users: Google might owe you some cash. If you’ve used an Android device with a cellular data plan in the U.S. anytime since November 2017, you could be eligible for a slice of a massive $135 million class-action settlement. The...
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You don't need me to tell you things are bad in the PC DIY market; everybody knows things are bad. The memory crunch, severe enough to earn the moniker "RAMageddon", has grossly inflated the prices of graphics cards, game consoles, SSDs, and of course, memory. In what we can only describe as a...
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Back when Intel launched its Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors at CES, it teased that it had a forthcoming announcement for some handheld-optimized chips, too. The PC-based gaming handheld market is still niche compared to the...
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If you're tired of waiting for Valve's still-upcoming Steam Machine (affectionately dubbed the GabeCube), here's another option for you: Playnix's "Playnix Console," featuring a "custom Arch Linux-based OS" and a bespoke combination of...
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