Zak Killian
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It's not clear how widespread this issue actually is, but some users—and not just crazy overclockers—have definitely experienced a problem where AMD CPUs fail in spectacular fashion, scorching the bottom of the CPU package and the socket...
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DLSS Swapper is an application that allows you to replace older DLSS versions with newer ones in games that never got updated with the latest models. It's arguably somewhat unnecessary now that NVIDIA's official App allows you to do this...
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Many leaks and rumors have pointed to the existence of a handheld version of the PlayStation 6. If that sounds insane, think about it this way: Nintendo proved that one machine can provide compelling experiences both in the hand and hooked...
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Here's the actual story for today: well-known leaksman Kepler_L2 posted up some diagrams of his own creation that purport to depict the configurations for AMD's next-generation discrete GPUs. There are four diagrams in total, depicting...
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Unfortunately, we aren't on the ground at Hot Chips 2025, and it's unfortunate, because Intel dumped a whole bunch of details about its upcoming Clearwater Forest high-core-count Xeons at the conference. Here are the key metrics: up to 288...
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Intel's Panther Lake is the company's next-generation series of mobile processors that will succeed Arrow Lake in the mid-range "H" class as well as Lunar Lake in the odd "V" in-between power class. We won't be seeing Panther Lake products...
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Japanese serial leaksman 188号 just posted up two mobile CPU roadmaps: one for Intel CPUs, and one for AMD. Chalk this one up as half-leak, half-rumor, because these clearly aren't official slides from Intel or AMD, but rather seem to be...
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We love tiny Chinese system vendors here at HotHardware. Companies like Ayaneo, Beelink, Geekom, and GPD make some wild, wonderful, and wacky hardware that's just fun to play with because they often push the boundaries of what's possible...
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Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single component's source code is released. That's...
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In 2025, there are a great many reasons you might want to consider an external GPU for your laptop or handheld gaming system. It's not just about gaming anymore. Of course, the GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest graphics card in the world...
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Folks who aren't of a certain vintage may not actually recall that, nearly a decade ago, Valve attempted to launch a home-console-like experience with the "Steam Machines," small form-factor PCs running Linux and meant for living-room PC...
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Intel is teaming up with EA for its annual Gamer Days promotion, and this time the freebie is a big one: EA's upcoming Battlefield 6. Starting August 25, buyers of select Intel Core CPUs and Arc graphics cards will get the latest DICE...
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If you're really opposed to the existence of hybrid CPUs, you could buy an Intel chip and disable the E-cores, but that really dumpsters your multi-core performance. What if Intel made a CPU like it used to, and like AMD does: with a...
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Researchers at UC Davis, working in collaboration with the BrainGate consortium, have unveiled a breakthrough brain-computer interface (BCI) that restores speech for people who have lost the ability to speak. The system was successfully...
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Intel Foundry needs external customers, as the company claims that if it doesn't find more, it may have to "pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes." That could explain why the company posted a video today on its YouTube channel showing off "Deer Creek Falls", a new...
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When we reviewed the MSI Claw 8 AI+, we were quite fond of the device's performance and battery life. It was generally on par with the ASUS ROG Ally X, although some benchmarks gave a glimmer of potentially superior performance. On paper...
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One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more generation of CPUs coming to the DDR5-based...
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The foremost Dutch tech site, Tweakers, is reporting that AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D has now reached End-of-Life (EOL). That means that any stock remaining in the channel is what's left, so if you want one of these chips, you'd better pick it...
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At SIGGRAPH 2025 today, Arm pulled the wraps off Neural Super Sampling (NSS), its first AI-driven upscaling technology designed for mobile GPUs. It's the debut application of "Arm neural technology," a planned set of features for future...
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Back at Computex, Intel announced a trio of Pro GPUs based on its Battlemage GPU architecture—the same that powers the popular Arc B570 and B580 GPUs. One of those cards was essentially an Arc B580 with 24GB of VRAM onboard, and one of them was a dual-chip version of the same. The third card...
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Ever since Meta found success with the Quest series of standalone VR headsets, the company's Reality Labs Research division—the artists formerly known as Oculus—really haven't produced a device after the fashion of the Rift, the Index, or...
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Without a press release, blog post, or even a tweet to mark the occasion, AMD has quietly added a new workstation GPU to its Radeon PRO lineup: the Radeon PRO W7400. This card slots into the company's W7000 series as an even-lower-power alternative to the two-year-old W7500. With a...
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