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Razer Blade 18’s Vapor Chamber Has A “Fill Port” Defect, Rendering The Expensive Machine Useless; Owner Says “Condensation” Was Seen From The Left Corner
A gaming laptop with a vapor chamber will often deliver superior thermals compared to a machine outfitted with a traditional heatpipe solution, assuming it has…
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DRAM Manufacturers Hold All The Leverage With $38 Billion In Advance Payments, But This Dominance Has An Expiration Date; 2029 Could Decide The Balance Of Power
A seismic shift in the DRAM industry has enabled major players like Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron to move away from their volatile and razor-thin margins and…
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Microsoft Currently Falling Short On Its Promise To Make Windows 11 More RAM Efficient, As Built-In Weather App Consumes Nearly 20% Of 8GB Memory
Windows 11 and its apps being RAM guzzlers isn’t a surprising revelation, but Microsoft has committed to making the OS as efficient as possible for systems…
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BetterVR Mod Transforms Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild into Full VR after 1,000s of Hours Reverse-Engineering Zelda’s Engine
Modder Crementif has released a new version of the BetterVR mod, greatly improving the experience of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in VR mode and…
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Intel Diamond Rapids “Xeon 7” To Reach 256 P-Cores To Match AMD’s EPYC Venice, Yet Trails On Timeline
Intel Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPUs will offer up to 256 cores based on the next-gen P-Core technology to tackle AMD EPYC Venice. Intel & AMD Will Battle…
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Intel Nova Lake 16-Core CPU Pushes 154W PL2, While its Integrated 12 Xe3P GPU Alone Eats 40 Watts
Intel Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs are going to rock some impressive iGPU capabilities, with up to 40 Watts being dedicated to graphics alone. Intel Is Aiming To…
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Modder Pumps Water Directly Onto RTX 2060 Silicon, Crashing Temperatures From 70°C To A Startling 28°C
In a wild experiment, we saw how this modder went from traditional heatsink to a direct water-cooling method to achieve very low temperatures. User Pumps Water…
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Taiwanese Retailer Won’t Sell The RTX 5090 Alone, Forcing Buyers Into An $7,481 Eight-Motherboard Bundle
It can be difficult to purchase an RTX 5090 as a standalone product in some regions, which is why some retailers are now bundling these high-end GPUs with more…
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Gigabyte X870 AORUS Infinity Motherboard Review – A New OC Champ Rises For Ryzens
It's been four years since the AMD AM5 motherboard platform and the 600-series motherboards launched. Since its launch, the platform has seen the launch of…
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The RAM Crisis Would Encourage Companies To Preserve Pricey Hardware, But An Ex-Employee Reveals One Firm Is Destroying MacBooks With 48GB Memory Configurations
As AI customers race away with DRAM orders to fuel the ongoing crisis, customers and companies alike would adopt smarter ways to preserve existing computers…
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RTX Spark With 20-Core CPU Closes Multi-Core Performance Gap With 14-Core M4 Max; New Leak Shows NVIDIA’s ARM-Based SoC Is 11% Slower
Prior to NVIDIA’s official announcement of the RTX Spark, the chip named N1X showcased some disappointing single-core and multi-core scores on Geekbench 6…
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T-Mobile’s CEO Dismisses Elon Musk’s Starlink Threat As “Exaggerated,” Says SpaceX’s Entry In The Carrier Business Serves No Purpose
T-Mobile's CEO has chosen to be dismissive of SpaceX's recent braggadocio, terming the threat posed by Elon Musk's cellular ambitions as "exaggerated" and…
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Take-Two CEO Bets Low-Latency Cloud Gaming Advancements Will 10x the Installed Base Within Three Years, Dismissing Hardware-Cost Fears
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick was chatty as usual in today's Q1 FY 2027 earnings call, giving a lot of space to GTA 6 (as expected) but also addressing rising…
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ZOTAC’s U.S. RMA Team Sent Over An RTX 5090 Upgrade To A Customer At No Extra Charge After He Shipped His RTX 4090 For Warranty Claim Four Times
One RTX 4090 owner should consider himself lucky that he chose ZOTAC because never once did the U.S. RMA team refuse an accommodation to entertain a warranty…
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TSMC & Researchers Make Big Breakthrough In Chip Transistor Technology As Part Of Push Towards Developing Sub-1-nanometer Technologies
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), in partnership with the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taipei, Taiwan, has made a…
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Anthropic Is Paying Nearly A Million Dollars Per Year To The Engineers Teaching Its AI Models To Design A Chip, But Just $320,000-$485,000 To Those Actually Building Its First ASIC
I guess we are in an era where the zeitgeist is not to teach the man how to fish, but the AI model, ensuring that the AI lab - Anthropic in this case - would…
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Lenovo Reportedly Preps ThinkBook ‘Aeroblade’ So Thin It Sacrificed Deep Key Travel To Hit The Profile
This might be the thinnest laptop we have ever seen, and according to the images, Lenovo made several adjustments to accommodate USB-C ports. Lenovo Reportedly…
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Take-Two CEO Calls GTA 6 Preorders “Unprecedented,” Explains Why It Won’t Ship on a Disc
During today's Q1 FY 2027 earnings call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed that Rockstar's GTA 6 has made an exceptional and unprecedented…
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Noctua Says Vendor Cooler-Clearance Specs Can’t Be Trusted, So It Hand-Measured Over A Hundred PC Cases
This is one of the most handy databases that lets you know if you can fit even larger CPU coolers in your PC case. Noctua Measures CPU Cooler Clearance for…
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Microsoft’s Efforts In Making Windows 11 More Efficient Isn’t Just Due To The DRAM Shortage; Analyst Believes MacBook Neo Played A Pivotal Role In This Decision
The DRAM shortage isn’t the only event that’s forcing Microsoft to dive deep into making Windows 11 more RAM efficient for 8GB systems, as an analyst…
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ShadPS4 Revives Driveclub in 8K PC Glory, Ten Years After Sony Shuttered the Studio Behind It
PlayStation 4 emulator ShadPS4 can now run Driveclub at up to 8K resolution on PC, thanks to a newly released patch, delivering by far the sharpest version of…
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ArcheAge S Revealed as a True Sequel to the 2013 MMO Fans Loved, After Chronicles Left Them Cold
Today, South Korean duo XL Games (developer) and Kakao Games (publisher) announced a partnership on a new MMORPG titled ArcheAge S: Strait of Freedom, which is…
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Nintendo Won’t Bring Pokémon Red and Blue to PC, but a Recompilation Just Brought Them Over With HD-2D Voxel Visuals
Despite having been released a long time ago, the original Game Boy versions of Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow remain some of the most beloved…
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Lenovo Premium Care Botched An On-Site Service For An RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop, Causing Liquid Metal Spillage That Rendered It Unusable, No Replacement Offered
A liquid metal application is always risky, especially on a gaming laptop, since these machines are carried around and move in all sorts of directions, which…
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German Retailer Motherboard Sales Reveal DDR4 Platform Makes Up For Less Than 10% Of Total Purchases Despite DDR5 Platform Costing Way More
While both DDR4 and DDR5 memory are selling for sky-high prices, DDR5 platforms usually cost more due to high demand. However, the latest sales stats show…
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MSI’s 27-inch OLED Monitor Ditches Metal-Mask Manufacturing For Inkjet Printing, Promising Sharper Text And Higher Yields
The monitor uses an inkjet-printed OLED panel, which has been supplied by TCL CSOT for better features. MSI Introduces PRO MAX OLED 271UPJW12 OLED Monitor…
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Xbox Won’t Abandon Steam after all, but It is Doubling Down on the PC Ecosystem with Xbox App and Battle.net
A couple of days ago, Windows Central's Jez Corden suggested that Xbox might stop releasing PC games on Valve's Steam at some point in the future as part of…
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Lekuo Turns a Single PCIe Slot Into 12 Ports Using an AMD B650 Chip, No Bifurcation Needed
Lekuo has introduced a unique AMD B650 chipset-powered PCIe expansion card that adds multiple M.2, SATA, and USB ports through a single PCIe Gen4 x4…
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TSMC Approaching A New Milestone With Its 2nm Process By The End Of 2026 With 100,000 Monthly Wafers; NVIDIA, AMD, & Others Force Manufacturing Acceleration
AI customers will eventually move their orders towards TSMC’s 2nm process in droves to target higher inference performance while utilizing less power to reduce…
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CXMT Eyes Second Beijing Memory Fab After Record IPO, Circling the Gap Samsung and Micron Left Behind
Flush with its cash from a record-setting IPO, China's CXMT is considering building a second memory chip plant in Beijing. CXMT is regularly discussed in the…
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HWiNFO Extends Per-Chip VRAM Monitoring To AMD Navi Cards After Unlocking The Same Trick On NVIDIA RTX
Per module temperature monitoring is now going to become common for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs through third-party monitoring tools. HWiNFO Adds Per-Chip VRAM…
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PlayStation PC Wall Faces New Threat, As PS5 Emulators Chase Demon’s Souls And Games That Will Never Ship On PC
PlayStation 5 emulation on PC is still in its infancy, but looking at the blazingly fast progress PlayStation 4 emulation made with the ShadPS4 emulator…
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Xbox Leaked Email Pins Disc-to-Digital Launch for August 2026, as PlayStation Barrels Toward All-Digital Future
[Update - August 3, 6:54 AM] In a new report, Windows Central revealed that the launch of Xbox disc-to-digital Positron program is scheduled for August 2026…
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Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Revelation Has 4 Jobs Per Character Due To Development Constraints, Yet This isn’t Necessarily Bad
Thanks to the Highwind airship redefining the trilogy's scale, allowing Cloud and his companions to travel quickly throughout the game's big map, Final Fantasy…
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Moonshot Chases A Potential $50 Billion IPO Valuation Even As Trump Administration Accuses It Of Distilling Anthropic’s Fable Model
Moonshot, the progenitor of the wildly popular Kimi K3 AI model, is apparently racing to bank its recent success with an IPO, one that might award it a…
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Google Trails NVIDIA in AI Chip Sales, yet a Broadcom-Backed Pivot Could Unlock $252 Billion
In a fresh report, Barclays claims that Google can earn as much as $252 billion in sales of its tensor processing units (TPUs) by shifting its business model…
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Sony Says PS5 Will Still Be More Affordable Than Gaming PCs and Different Enough, Even Without Discs
During Sony's Q1 2026 earnings call, Lin Tao, Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, addressed the massive backlash against the corporation's strategic…
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The Last of Us Part II Multiplayer Mod Hits 4v4 Matches as One Modder Revives What Naughty Dog Canceled
Modder Speclizer has revealed that the ambitious The Last of Us Part II Multiplayer Mod project now supports up to 4v4 matches. To celebrate the project's…
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M5 Max MacBook Pro Owner Says Excessive Temperatures Caused Backspace Key To Get Stuck In Chassis; Would Have Been An $895 Repair Job If Not For Warranty
The M5 Max, relying on two low-profile fans and a single heatpipe, is bound to run into overheating issues, and that’s exactly what one MacBook Pro…
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The Apple Upgrade Leasing Program Bets That Consumers Won’t Blink At ~$1 Per Day For A Brand-New iPhone Or Mac
Apple's brand-new leasing program, dubbed Apple Upgrade, goes big on the idea that most consumers won't mind shelling out a tiny amount on a per-day basis just…
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Intel Foundry Securing Packaging & Wafer Deal With NVIDIA To Make Next-Gen Feynman GPUs Could Be Its Biggest Customer Win Yet
Intel Foundry might be heading into a big deal with NVIDIA, as the company is expected to offer packaging and wafer support for next-gen Feynman GPUs. NVIDIA…
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Intel References SK hynix’s Ex-CEO When Discussing Its Memory Plans, Fueling The $28 Billion Ohio Fab JV Rumors
Given the very juicy margins in the memory chip business right now, it's not so unthinkable that Intel might soon dip its toes, so to speak, in this red-hot…
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Intel 14A Enters High-Volume Production In 2028, As Risk Production Moved Ahead To 2027 On Internal Products
Intel has confirmed that its 14A process technology will now enter high-volume production in 2028 as CEO Lip-Bu Tan expresses confidence in the node to offer…
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AMD Fires Back At NVIDIA’s Groq Bet, Fuses The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine With Helios For 5x Higher Tokens Per Second Per Watt
NVIDIA scooped up Groq as soon as its LPU showed promise in terms of efficient inferencing. Now, AMD has countered NVIDIA's gambit by partnering with Cerebras…
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AT&T Cozing Up To AI Has Made Its Customer Service Outrageously Poor; Company’s Andi Chatbot Refuses To Hand Over Reins To A Human, Beginning A “Death Loop”
The acceleration of AI to help improve efficiency and upgrade the user experience might have been the original intention of U.S. carriers like AT&T, but…
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AMD Zen 7 “2028” and Zen 8 “2030” CPU Architectures Confirmed – EPYC Florence “Zen 7” To Feature Next-Gen Node, DDR6 Memory & ACE Extensions
AMD has officially confirmed its next-generation Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPU architectures, which arrive in EPYC Florence and EPYC Ravenna chips. AMD Continues The Zen…
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AMD Unleashes Instinct MI455X GPU, A 320 Billion Transistor Behemoth That Is Designed to Tackle NVIDIA’s Rubin With 50% More HBM4 Memory & Up to 40 PFLOPs of AI Compute
AMD's Instinct MI455X GPUs extend the company's AI roadmap, bringing leading HBM4 capacities and over 40 PFLOPs of compute for Agentic AI, rivaling NVIDIA's…
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AMD Says It Now Controls Nearly Half Of The Data Center CPU Market, And Its Total Compute TAM Will Reach $2 Trillion By 2030
AMD is predictably cheerful about its AI-boosted prospects, declaring in a decidedly sunny tone that it now controls nearly half of the data center CPU market…
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AMD EPYC Venice CPUs Stomp NVIDIA’s Vera With 20% Faster Single-Core & 2.2x Higher Throughput With Up to 256 “Zen 6” Cores, 203 Billion Transistors & Over 5 GHz+ Clocks
AMD has officially launched its EPYC Venice CPU family, spanning several chips, with performance leadership in Agentic AI with Zen 6 cores. The Industry's…
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AMD EPYC Verano “Highest Frequency” & Venice-X “3D V-Cache” CPUs Launch Next Year, Tackling Agentic AI & HPC-Oriented Workloads With Zen 6
AMD has confirmed that its EPYC Verano and 3D V-Cache boosted Venice-X CPUs will launch next year as Zen 6 tackles a broad range of HPC & AI workloads. AMD…
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DeepSeek CEO Believes NVIDIA Is Now “Digging Its Own Grave” Even As 1 NVIDIA GB300 GPU Equals 4 Huawei Acend 950 GPUs
DeepSeek's CEO, Liang Wenfeng, has disclosed a number of valuable nuggets in an investor-focused conference call, spilling the beans on China's compute…
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Newegg Slashes AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D To An Effective $270 By Throwing In A Free 240mm Liquid Cooler
If you were waiting for a deep discount on AM4's best gaming processor, now is the right time to act fast. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Gets Bundled With a $80 240mm…
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CXMT-Based Asgard DDR5 Memory Hits 8800 MT/s On Z890 Motherboard As Vendors Optimize Intel Platforms For CXMT Memory
More optimized DDR5 memory are being pushed beyond 8000 MT/s on mainstream Intel and AMD platforms. Asgard 48 GB DDR5 RAM Kit Pushed to 8800 MT/s on ASUS Z890…
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Memory Shortage Chokes The PC Market Into A 4% Q2 Decline, Leaving Only ASUS And Apple Growing
The PC market continues to struggle due to memory shortages, with the latest stats reporting a 4% decline in Q2 2026 as prices continued to climb. ASUS &…
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The RAMpocalypse Hits Framework Hard As LPCAMM2 Sourcing Doubles, Pushing 64GB Configs To $1,600
Another vendor, another price hike. The RAMpocalypse keeps pushing hardware costs, and there is no sign of stopping. Framework Announces Another Price Hike for…
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Intel and AMD lock in year-long CPU deals with Chinese AI firms as prices surge 40%
Intel and AMD are signing long term agreements with Chinese data center firms to provide them with CPUs for AI computing, says a report from Reuters. CPUs in…
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NVIDIA Reportedly Increased GDDR6 And GDDR7 Kit Prices For Its RTX GPUs
Another substantial price hike is incoming as the green team has supposedly raised prices for its memory kits. NVIDIA RTX GPUs to See Another Price Hike as the…
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Bethesda Pushes Back On Xbox Control Claims, Yet New Fallout By Obsidian Hints Otherwise
Following confirmation that Xbox will cut a total of 3,200 jobs by July 2027, most of the studios still under their umbrella underwent significant upheavals…
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HBM’s & DRAM’s Importance Is Waning; Here’s The Silent Upgrade AI Giants Are Racing To Buy Before the Next Big Wave Hits
As hyperscalers continue to increase their massive investments to boost capacity, there’s a growing realization that risks their lofty ambitions: power…
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NVIDIA Rolls Out Hotfix Driver 610.82, Fixing Stability Issues In Halo: Campaign Evolved When Playing On RTX 50 Series
The upcoming Halo game is receiving optimizations ahead of the official launch through the latest hotfix driver. NVIDIA Fixes Stability Issues in Halo…