Zak Killian
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The next all-new CPUs from Intel should be the Panther Lake series of mobile processors, hitting late this year or (more likely) early next year. Around the same time or shortly after, though, we expect to see Wildcat Lake, a smaller...
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Just yesterday we learned of the existence of an "AX" model of Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors. Intel uses letters to describe its mobile processors' power budgets, scaling through "Y", "U", "P", "H", and then "HX" at the top with...
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ASUS ROG Strix G16 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop: As tested $2,499 With solid performance and attractive design and minimal comprmises, ASUS' latest gaming laptop is compelling for fans of the form factor. Strong Performance At Its Price...
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Before AMD revealed its Ryzen AI MAX ("Strix Halo") processors, we had many leaks and rumors about the capabilities of the chips: massive integrated GPU, desktop-class CPU horsepower, and a double-wide 256-bit memory interface to feed it...
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Intel's next major processor release is expected to be the Panther Lake family of mobile processors, directly succeeding last year's popular Lunar Lake chips. Those parts will be fabricated on Intel's own 18A process, which by all accounts...
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If you're in the market for a new gaming handheld, we have some good news for you. We now know how much the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally machines are likely going to cost. This information comes courtesy of a web design oversight in the page of...
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Regular HotHardware readers will know that I, your author, am generally a fan of handheld gaming PC devices, as well as that I specifically like to champion the smaller vendors, such as GamePadDigital, OneNotebook, and of course, Ayaneo...
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TeamGroup Industrial has just rolled out its latest industrial-grade SSD, the P250Q, and it's packing more than just high performance. The standout feature? A built-in self-destruct mechanism designed to wipe data completely and...
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JEDEC, the standards body responsible for defining how much of our digital world communicates behind the scenes, has just rolled out the specs for LPDDR6 memory. This next-gen RAM is aimed squarely at high-performance, power-sensitive...
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The MSI Claw A8 Ryzen Edition has officially landed in China, bringing with it AMD's new Ryzen Z2 Extreme—a mobile SoC that trims the fat from the desktop-class HX 370 while keeping the good bits: the full 8-WGP RDNA 3.5 iGPU and a hybrid...
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It's Prime Day, folks, and you know what that means: killer deals on some seriously fast PC parts. While the GPU market has been struggling recently, the rest of the PC parts market is ripe for the picking, and so we've put in a couple of...
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Intel's Core Ultra 200S desktop processors, codenamed Arrow Lake, didn't exactly blow the doors off of the competition—including Intel's own last-generation processors—when they launched late last year. There were a variety of reasons for...
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Today we have a bit different of a deals post for you. Rather than focusing on budget-priced 'good enough' hardware, we've got some seriously speedy storage on sale. PCI Express 5.0 SSDs offer transfer rates as high as 14.8 GB/second when...
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Here's a super-fast recap on what has already been leaked about AMD's next-generation Ryzen processors, built using its Zen 6 processor core: the core is codenamed "Morpheus," client processors are codenamed "Medusa", and all of them are...
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Back when we wrote our Nintendo Switch 2 review roundup, we noted that variable refresh rate (VRR) display output was not supported by the official dock, and we posited the idea that perhaps using a third-party dock or simply a USB-C to...
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A new gene therapy has shown promising results in restoring hearing to children, teens, and even a young adult born with a rare form of inherited deafness. Researchers in China tested the treatment on ten patients aged between 18 months...
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Rockstar Games has just dropped what might be the weirdest Red Dead Online patch yet. Titled Strange Tales of the West, the "weird West"-themed update adds a series of Telegram Missions featuring everything supernatural, from shambling...
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If you keep up with PC gaming news, you're almost assuredly aware that when NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, it also released "DLSS 4", with Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) and a new Transformer-based model for Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction. The part you...
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If you're still holding on to your beloved Pascal (GTX 10) or Maxwell (GTX 900/750) GeForce card, the next driver update you get will probably be the last one. It's kind of incredible that NVIDIA is still offering driver updates for these...
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AMD has held the upper hand in PC gaming for years now, thanks to its X3D processors and their massive 3D V-Cache. By stacking extra cache on top of the CPU, AMD drastically cuts memory latency—arguably the biggest performance bottleneck...
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Micron's newly announced 2600 series of NVMe SSDs is a set of PCIe Gen4 drives the company says delivers TLC-like performance while retaining the cost efficiency of QLC NAND. The key to that claim? A new in-house caching approach dubbed...
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You may recall that earlier this year your author here was quite excited about the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds. That enthusiasm, like much of the community's, was somewhat muted after we actually put a few dozen hours into the game...
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