Zak Killian
Recent posts
If you've kept up with leaks regarding Intel's Nova Lake processors, you'll naturally be aware that one of the more interesting SKUs mentioned by leakers has been a particular model sporting a powerful integrated GPU with 12 Xe cores...
Read more...
Valve unfortunately did not deign to deliver upon us one of its shiny new Steam Frame headsets. As a result, we've been restricted to reading reviews from other outlets just like everyone else. However, this particular writer happens to...
Read more...
A company that started out making affordable graphics cards for PC gamers is the most valuable company in the world, and a man known most for hosting a TV game show is the President of the United States. In that light, recent events don't...
Read more...
Remember over a year ago when we reported on the ClickFix malware that uses fake CAPTCHA mechanisms to dupe unwitting victims into pwning their own machines? Well, apparently not enough people shared that post, because the problem has...
Read more...
There are two new AMD CPUs on the block, and normally that would be bigger news, but both of these chips are based on previous-generation processor technology, and one of them is yet another new SKU for the decade-old Socket AM4 platform...
Read more...
Are you an overclocker? If note, you may be the exactly the audience for "Hypertune", a subscription service that promises to improve your PC's gaming performance "with one click." While some of the claims made by the company don't quite...
Read more...
A multinational team of researchers comprising mathematicians and data scientists from Spain, Italy, and the US have just published a paper called "Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus" that is making some waves in the AI community...
Read more...
PC gamers of a certain age will fondly remember the days when physical copies of PC games came in oversized boxes known simply by enthusiasts as "big boxes." These so-called big box games used oversized packaging so that they could fit...
Read more...
At this week's SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography conference in Monterey, Intel Foundry and ASML presented a status update regarding the commercialization and high-volume manufacturing (HVM) deployment of High Numerical Aperture...
Read more...
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering offers a stunning upgrade in visual realism but the performance hit is substantial, to the point that some, including this writer, feel it doesn't justify the cost. What if you could slash that performance...
Read more...
If you want to play retro games and want them to look accurate, in-line with the original designers' intentions, you pretty much need a CRT. You can get by with emulation and smart filters that simulate scan lines and other effects, but...
Read more...
The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound...
Read more...
Having spent a few hours in direct, deep performance and image quality testing, I'm here to tell you the unvarnished truth about NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering for GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. Today's the day that you too can officially...
Read more...
Microsoft has announced that starting with October's Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 will automatically enable Memory Integrity on all eligible PCs where the feature is currently turned off. Also known as Hypervisor-protected Code...
Read more...
Dell's Alienware gaming brand has emerged as one of the leading vendors catering to gamers looking for legitimately high-end displays with real gaming chops in the last several years. The firm's got three fancy new monitors for us to talk...
Read more...
Following the reveal of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 in March, reactions were mixed to say the least. Some users responded with enthusiastic praise, eagerly awaiting the next leap in graphical fidelity. Others responded with sharp criticisms, some...
Read more...
Fifth-generation DDR SDRAM, known more commonly as DDR5, launched in its "LP" form with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 in February of 2020. Those chips were first found in the Xiaomi Mi 10 smartphone. It's been almost seven years since then...
Read more...
HP HyperX Omen 15 Gaming Laptop - Image: HotHardware HP HyperX Omen 15: Starting at $1,029, as tested $2,099 HP's latest-generation Omen gaming laptop gets HyperX branding and a slightly smaller form factor, making it downright pleasant to...
Read more...
It has become almost customary this generation for new video games to target 60 FPS, if not in general then at least with a 'Performance Mode' which may or may not actually reach that value on the contemporary game consoles. Because of the...
Read more...
If you're still running Windows 10 on your gaming PC, I don't blame you, but you should be aware that Microsoft has terminated mainstream support for your operating system. Unless you've signed up for Extended Security Updates, you're...
Read more...
On Monday, we reported on SiFive's move to bring the open-source RISC-V CPU architecture into the datacenter with the BigSky server platform, and as part of that reporting, we mentioned that SiFive had also partnered with NVIDIA to...
Read more...
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...
Read more...
