Zak Killian
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We missed this in our coverage of Dell's commercial PC announcements this week, but the company has new keyboards and mice coming too. There's the latest revision of the classy Dell Pro 7 Slim setup, and the Dell Pro 5 Fingerprint ESS...
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Did you read our review of the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Plus" processors? These chips are still Arrow Lake, but the new "Plus" descriptor marks the parts as being targeted at enthusiasts, and offering the highest performance...
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AMD's Ryzen 9 processors with more than eight CPU cores use two different pieces of silicon, known as complex core dies or CCDs, for their CPU cores. Well, ever since AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the original 3D V-Cache CPU, users...
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Well, it's not coming quite the way some might have hoped, but today is the day that Intel's BMG-G31 GPU arrives, in the form of the new Intel Arc Pro B70. This long-rumored card sports Intel's most powerful Arc GPU to date, with a full 32...
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To go along with Intel's Pro Day announcements this morning, Dell's got a whole pile of new Dell Pro machines. Dell says that these commercial computers offer exceptional scalability and reliability to make life easier for business and...
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This may come as a shock, but unless you're on the latest builds of Windows Server, your Windows machine doesn't know about your NVMe disk. The standard StorNVMe.sys driver used since Windows 8.1 talks NVMe to NVMe SSDs, but it tosses that...
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Nostalgic console gaming aficionados have it good, man. You've got all kinds of options for playing retro console games, up to and including systems like the Analogue 3D that painstakingly recreate the original hardware using Field...
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You might recall just a few days ago when, immediately after the launch of hotly-anticipated open world RPG Crimson Desert, it was discovered that it simply would not launch on Intel Arc GPUs, throwing up an error message saying that the...
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Have you been contemplating a MacBook Neo, but wishing there were Windows laptops with somewhat similar specs? Well, there already are quite a few laptops with similar capabilities, but none of them will have the MacBook Neo's specific...
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You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, where gamers can download pre-compiled binary...
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How much storage do you need? It's a fair bet you could be satisfied with 2TB or less, which is the typical capacity of M.2 SSDs. If you need more, it's likely warm or cold data that could be stuffed onto relatively inexpensive spinning rust. Some folks truly need storage that's high-density...
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Valve just rolled out a Counter-Strike 2 update that fundamentally changes reloading, and longtime players are sounding the alarm about the potential it has to completely overturn the meta-game. In short, instead of partially used...
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If there's one thing PC gamers universally despise, it's shader compilation stutters, but it's also a drag to launch a brand-new game, ready to play, only to be greeted by a "Compiling Shaders" progress bar slowly crawling across the...
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Let's talk about DLSS 5. If you pay any attention to gaming discourse at all, you'll have already noticed that there has been a tremendous pushback against NVIDIA's new DLSS 5. Gamers and gaming commentators have set to work, making a...
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Folks who pay attention to the enthusiast and DIY PC space will no doubt be familiar with NorthridgeFix. The occasionally controversial electronics repair shop is also a popular YouTube channel where the shop documents repair jobs...
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NVIDIA is officially announcing its new Vera Rubin platform at GTC today, positioning the release as the next frontier for "agentic AI". The sprawling announcements (NVIDIA put out a fully twenty press releases, in addition to multiple...
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Many users have decried the rapid and pervasive integration of AI features in Windows 11. For many, the final straw was when Microsoft Copilot-ified the humble Notepad application. "Enough's enough," folks said as they downloaded sketchy...
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If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important stuff to a NAS, a second PC, external...
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Do you have a Socket AM5 system? Do you play games on it? Do you have a 3D V-Cache processor? If the answers to those questions are YYN like some kind of Rush song with the third part turned sideways, then you should absolutely check out...
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The newly released $599 MacBook Neo might be an iPhone chip slapped into a low-cost Mac chassis with passive cooling, but it's shockingly competent as long as you accept its limitations. YouTuber and PCGamingWiki founder Andrew Tsai...
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If you're reading this right now, there's a very good chance that you were one of many millions of children to grow up with LEGO as one of your favorite toys. The Danish plastic connecting bricks are a timeless classic, and no doubt many...
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It's been a wild, news-packed week so far, with lots of announcements coming out of the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Besides NVIDIA's news yesterday and Intel's new CPUs today, Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, officially...
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