Zak Killian
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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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If you're up on the latest Intel leaks, you'll be well aware that the company's upcoming Nova Lake processors are expected to take the fight to AMD in a major way with Intel's own implementation of a 'big cache' design, known as "bLLC,"...
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Speaking to Tom's Hardware, Intel VP and GM (of "enthusiast channel business") Robert Hallock says he thinks AMD's controversial decision to launch its new Zen 6 architecture in the datacenter is "a natural reaction" and "makes a lot of...
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When you hear "macro pad", you probably envision something gamers use to cheat in video games. Cheaters or not, that's exactly who Keychron's new C100 8K macro pad seems to be targeting with its distinctive aesthetic featuring clear ASA...
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No, you read the headline correctly: that's the B450 chipset, which originally came out in 2018 ahead of the Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 processors. It is perhaps a sign of the times, but here in the post-Zen 6 era (AMD launched Venice last...
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If you're an enthusiast of a certain age, you may recall that there was a weird diversion between the Socket 7 platform used by the original Pentium and the Socket 370 platform used by the Pentium III. That diversion was Slot 1, an...
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ASUS has patched another serious security vulnerability in Armoury Crate and several other hardware-management utilities that could let an unprivileged application gain kernel-level access on Windows systems. The vulnerability, tracked as...
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Absolutely indispensable hardware identification and monitoring utility HWiNFO has no direct Linux equivalent, and that's one of the most frustrating things about using Linux as an enthusiast. The app frequently gets pre-release...
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Some applications demand a big CPU with eight or more big cores and a fat discrete GPU drawing 300W. Most don't, and if you disagree, let's interrogate how much time you spend on your smartphone. The fact of the matter is that you simply...
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If you're a PC gamer, you'd better pray to whatever divine being or beings you believe in that your current graphics card doesn't give up the ghost. While there are still graphics cards on the market to buy, pricing for current-generation...
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Intel hasn't released a graphics-focused desktop processor since the beloved (but not for its graphics) Broadwell-C family back in 2015. Since then, AMD has completely cornered the market for budget desktop gaming and SFF PC builds with...
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How much hardware do you need to run a large language model (LLM) locally? You need a massive GPU, or a powerful AI-targeted machine like the HP Z2 Mini G1a, right? That's certainly one way to go. Alternatively you could grab a handful of...
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