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Valve shared some disheartening news for anyone still happily rocking a Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 gaming PC. Effective January 1, 2024, Steam will no longer support those operating systems. That still gives gamers nine months to make preparations, but once the calendar flips over to 2024, the Steam client...
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If the only thing holding you back from building a new Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake or AMD Ryzen 7000 series PC is the cost of DDR5 memory, you're in luck. Pricing on DDR5 modules has fallen precipitously since the launch of Alder Lake, which is when DDR5 first stuck its foot through the mainstream doorway, and further...
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Winter officially ended a week ago and as the weather finally begins to warm up, it's time to come out of hibernation. It also means yet another opportunity for a round of discounts. Never one to pass up an opportunity, Amazon is teasing savings of up to 40% during its Spring Sale, which kicks off today in the UK at...
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Now is a great time to build a PC from scratch or to upgrade an existing one to the latest generation silicon from AMD and Intel. Both offer competitive solutions for a wide range of tasks—gaming, content creation, productivity, general purpose chores, and so forth. As it pertains to AMD, it's Zen 4 processors have...
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Gordon Moore, whose infamous observation in the field of semiconductors was known as Moore's Law, has died at the age of 94. According to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation he passed away "peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023" at his home in Hawaii, surrounded by family members.
Moore's contributions...
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There's not an abundance of OLED gaming monitors on the market, certainly not in comparison the sea of LCD options. Most of the ones that do exist tend to be larger in size. As in 34 inches and up, for the most part. There are exceptions, one of which is coming soon from Corsair—the company announced it's adding the...
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It's easy to forget now that graphics cards are plentiful again, but Intel's entry into the discrete GPU market coincided with a frustrating shortage that left PC gamers contending with depleted inventories and scalpers looking to make a quick buck. It's a different situation now, but what hasn't changed is Intel's...
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In case you haven't noticed, we are in the midst of an AI (artificial intelligence) revolution. To some extent, AI has been around for decades, but only recently has technology finally started to catch up with the exciting realities that AI makes possible. Or as NVIDIA put it during its GTC keynote this week, we're...
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Contrary to what some people might think, getting into PC gaming doesn't have to be an ultra-expensive proposition. To prove it, Lenovo is introducing a brand-new line of relatively affordable gaming laptops and desktops called LOQ, which is pronounced "lock," with prices starting at $899.99. That's not budget...
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LG is adding another 49-inch gaming display to its stable, the Curved UltraGear (49GR85DC-B), and it's now available to preorder for players with relatively deep pockets. The preorder period lasts from now until to Sunday, April 2, 2023, with orders expected to begin shipping out the same week. Those who do decide to...
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NVIDIA kicked off this year's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) with a flurry of announcements and an interesting keynote about bringing AI everywhere, all at once. As part of the busy first day, NVIDIA unveiled a new workstation card based on Ada Lovelace, the RTX 4000 in small form factor (SFF) trim. Now a day later...
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It's barely been a week since we highlighted price drops across Intel's Arc Alchemist discrete graphics card lineup, including a custom ASRock Challenger Arc A750 8GB card for the ridiculously-low price of just $239.99. That's still a great deal, though if you prefer Intel's own Limited Edition (LE) variant, you can...
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Crucial is not hiding the fact that it's getting ready to release its first PCIe Gen 5 solid state drive for consumers under the T700 banner. Just the opposite, there's an official product page teasing "Crucial's Gen 5 SSD is almost here!," along with an option to provide your email to be notified once Micron's...
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Noctua is continuing its collaboration with ASUS on another custom-cooled graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4080, with claims that it offers a huge reduction in noise without sacrificing temperatures. This is the third graphics card the two have teamed up on, following the release of Noctua Edition GeForce RTX 3080 and...
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Blizzard is hacking and slashing its way through a handful of bugs uncovered during the Diablo IV early access beta testing that ran throughout the weekend, in hopes that the upcoming open beta will go a little more smoothly. Some of the early issues include players being disconnected from servers and the inability of...
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Barring any last-minute delays, we're now less than three months away from the release of Diablo IV on PC and console. As it pertains to the former, owners of a GeForce RTX 40 series graphics will be able to utilize NVIDIA's AI-assisted Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 (DLSS 3) technology right from the get-go, the GPU...
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If you talk to Intel, the company will tell you its roadmap remains on track to launch Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake this year and next, followed by Lunar Lake, an all-new and ultra-low power architecture built specifically for mobile. Unofficially, however, there have been rumors pointing to Meteor Lake skipping the...
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You may have noticed that your solid state drive (SSD) is not performing as expected after installing this month's Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 22H2 (KB5023706). Don't worry, it's not just you—Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on a fix (and hey, at least it's not another boot loop issue at play)...
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The GPU wars are heating up with game bundles coming back in style. Last week we wrote about AMD gifting codes for The Last Of Us Part I with select Radeon RX graphics card purchases, and not to be outdone NVIDIA has followed suit with a sweet offer of its own—purchase a qualifying GeForce RTX 40 series GPU and...
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At this point, there might not be a whole lot of mystery surrounding NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card, given the widespread leaks and rumors. Based on everything we know so far from the various leaks, it will slot in neatly underneath the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti with 23.3 percent fewer CUDA cores but...
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NVIDIA has begun pushing out a new 'Game Ready' GPU driver, version 531.29 WHQL, and with it comes a fix for an odd bug that was causing CPU usage to spike after exiting a game. This was actually addressed in an out-of-band hotfix last week, but unless you manually sought it out, you wouldn't have received the...
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Netgear just strutted into the home networking scene proud as a peacock with what it claims is the world's first Wi-Fi 7 router, the Nighthawk RS700. In doing so, your fancy Wi-Fi 6E you just upgraded to is now obsolete—sorry! Just kidding (sort of). Anyone rocking a Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 6 network shouldn't feel...
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