Zak Killian
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Well, it's the end of 2025, and the AI crunch is making hardware prices cruise for the stratosphere. At least, SSDs are rising and RAM is through the roof. However, one category that isn't affected at all yet are gaming GPUs. They're not...
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Alienware Area-51 Gaming Laptops: As tested, $3349 (16) and $4099 These new Area-51 laptops aren't a mild refresh, but a whole new design philosophy, delivering top-shelf performance and show-stopping aesthetics. Gorgeous Exterior...
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We reported last week on some leaked details for Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh processors. As a refresh, these new chips don't seem to do much to differentiate themselves from the extant Core Ultra 200S family, but one small upgrade...
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If you feel like Windows 11 has been trending less and less stable over the last few months, you're not imagining things. Microsoft has confirmed a nasty bug in Windows 11 version 24H2 (stemming from cumulative updates starting in July...
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As Amazon kicks off its extended Black Friday Week, a wave of smart entertainment gear is showing off just how far home technology has come in 2025. Screens are bigger, audio is sharper, connectivity is faster, and even the lighting behind...
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Intel has already established that the graphics parts of Panther Lake are using the Xe3 architecture, but that they will be branded as part of the Arc B-series. The given rationale is that the first-generation Xe3 graphics products...
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AMD's next CPU launch is going to be the Gorgon Point family. Don't wet yourself in excitement; they're primarily refreshed Strix Point silicon. At least, that's been the gist of all the leaks and rumors so far, but now we have yet another...
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Intel's next truly interesting processor release—sorry, Arrow Lake Refresh—is going to be the launch of its Panther Lake mobile processors. As it turns out, we now know exactly when that's happening: not Q4 '25 as rumored, but indeed Q1...
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When the original ASUS ROG Ally handhelds came out, they were followed by a long series of patches that radically improved both the software and hardware, adding new features, fixing bugs, and even directly improving the performance and...
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Desktops PCs are faster than ever, with the speediest systems rivaling massive, warehouse-filling supercomputers from not even two decades ago. It may not cost as much as you think to have one of those 'speediest systems' yourself, though...
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If you're among the horde of companies looking to integrate AI services into your workflows yet unwilling to pay OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Anthropic exorbitant API fees for their advanced models, why not host it yourself? That's...
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One of the strangest parts of AMD's stagnation in the early 2010s was that it simply stopped releasing new desktop CPUs for a while. It's true that there wasn't much point in continuing the lineage of the inefficient (and unpopular)...
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A new wave of state-level proposals targeting virtual private networks has stirred up an unusual amount of alarm from digital-rights groups, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't pulling punches. In a detailed critique published...
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DDR5 memory runs objectively high transfer rates; JEDEC specs go as high as 6.4 Gbps, and overclockers have taken DDR5 beyond the fastest LPDDR5X: all the way to over 13 Gbps. At these speeds, signal integrity becomes a first-order...
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Back when AMD announced its next-generation FSR Redstone technology, the company promised to have the updated upscaling and frame generation techniques out by the end of the year. Many expected that this would mean a late-December source...
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Tachyum is back with another round of astonishing promises. The startup, which was founded in 2016 and still yet to ship a single chip, has unveiled the latest revision of its Prodigy processor design, now targeted at 2nm, which it says...
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NVIDIA may garner the lion's share of AI news, but AMD has its own selection of extremely potent AI processors, and it has been making rapid progress on both the hardware and software fronts in recent years. It was just a few months ago...
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That's right: another Windows feature update is coming, but don't worry, because you probably won't get this one. Windows 11 26H1 is actually already available to Windows 11 Insiders on the "Canary" channel, which is the most bleeding-edge...
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Possibly the most absurd truth of modern computing is that, as far as the technology has evolved, we're fundamentally still doing the exact same thing we were doing decades ago: twiddling bits. The question, of course, has always been how...
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The idea that AMD's Zen 6 would support AVX-512 in some fashion has never really been in question, to tell the truth. With native 512-bit vector datapaths and a nearly-complete AVX-512 implementation, AMD's Zen 5 already has the strongest...
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Have you seen the ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 card? Yes you have; it's right above this text. The new high-end graphics card from the halo-tier Matrix series has a striking design that we'd assume was a Radeon GPU if not for the...
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Motherboards are definitely getting more sophisticated but this new entrant from Gigabyte may take the cake, at least currently. Gigabyte's new X870E Aorus Xtreme X3D AI TOP is a refined and revised version of its extant X870E Aorus Xtreme...
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