Zak Killian
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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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If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gaming performance lift compared to Intel's previous generation chips. Well...
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In case you haven't heard, this week is GDC, the Game Developers Conference, not to be confused with GTC, the Graphics Technology Conference—that one is next week. Naturally, NVIDIA's present at GDC in a big way, and the company has some...
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If I'm offering to sell you a laptop, and I tell you that the laptop has 1.1 TB of storage, you would likely expect that it has a 1TB SSD and perhaps another, smaller SSD. Well, don't get tricked by sketchy listings like this one that...
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In case you missed the memo, Intel's been kicking butt in the mobile arena lately. Its Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors offered a great blend of CPU compute, GPU horsepower, and excellent power efficiency, and the latest Core Ultra...
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Samsung officially announced its latest Galaxy S26 family of devices last week, powered by an exclusive version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform. The lineup consists of the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra ($1299)...
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If you read the headline and, like me, thought 'What the heck is a CQDIMM?', I'm here to tell you it's actually not that complicated. ASRock is using the term CQDIMM to refer to standard CUDIMMs that have four memory ranks, making them...
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We've already reported a few times on SOCAMM2 memory, so if you're not familiar, check out one or all of these stories. The last of those links goes to a story about Micron sampling 192GB SOCAMM2 modules. Well, as you've already read in...
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