Zak Killian
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ASUS and XREAL have opened pre-orders for the new ROG XG Mobile... wait, wrong expensive gaming accessory. The companies' new ROG XREAL R1 gaming glasses are now available to pre-order for $849, promising a virtual 171-inch display with a...
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Gamer frustration with AMD has been high over the last few months as the company continued to introduce new graphics technologies that were exclusive to its latest-generation Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs while leaving buyers of its popular...
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If you thought your shiny new 192GB DDR5 rig was bleeding-edge, it's time to take a seat. Micron just announced that it is sampling 256GB DDR5 RDIMM modules pushing a blistering 9200 MT/s. Yes, that is indeed a single stick of memory...
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Valve's new Steam Controller is out, shipping to customers, and even getting firmware updates, but don't panic if you haven't gotten yours yet--supply is pretty constrained. Some folks do have them, though, and that's how someone like...
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Computex is less than two weeks away, and a myriad of companies are going to be pre-announcing hardware that'll debut at the show. That's not exactly what this announcement today is, though; Lenovo describes this as "completing" its 2026...
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Intel was rumored to be working on a "Nova Lake-AX" processor that was reportedly a direct competitor with both Apple's M-series as well as AMD's Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" chips. It would have been a BGA design with powerful graphics and a...
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Dell XPS 16 (DA16260) Laptop: Starting At $1899, $2349 As Tested Dell’s XPS 16 (DA16260) for 2026 delivers the same impressive Panther Lake performance, class-leading efficiency, and clean, premium design as the 14" model we...
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Gamers will be well familiar with the pain of a drifting analog stick. This issue has largely been resolved with the introduction of Hall-effect and TMR sticks in modern controllers. Why not apply the same tech to defeat double-clicking...
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement under which Intel will manufacture some chips designed by Apple. According to the Journal, talks between the two companies have been ongoing for...
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If you have a PC performance issue, there are really only two potential paths around it: you can either optimize your software or you can make the hardware faster. Microsoft is choosing the latter path with its upcoming "Low Latency...
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It probably won't surprise you to hear that AMD might be announcing new products at Computex. What might surprise you is that it's all but confirmed thanks to a slip-up at Biostar PR. The company posted a press release announcing its...
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A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest gain against Intel's mainstream...
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There's probably a lot of you gamers out there on older graphics card pondering an upgrade. Is it worth it? Or is it a waste of money? Well, in an attempt to answer that question for a fair few of you, we decided to do a head to head: the...
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It feels like I write a story about Imagination Technologies about once a year. ImgTec, as it's often called, is a company with a storied history, emerging as one of the founders of the PC gaming 3D accelerator ecosystem, before going on...
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AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300 processors currently represent the state of the art for AMD processor technology: piles of Zen 5 processor cores, a double-wide memory interface, a comically large integrated GPU, and dense silicon bridge...
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If you haven't put hands on a mobile device with an Intel Panther Lake processor yet, even the 4-Xe3-core configuration is surprisingly spry when it comes to gaming. The "X" models with the larger 12-core GPU are downright speedy, and...
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JEDEC is pushing server memory even faster with its next-generation DDR5 MRDIMM roadmap, and no, this probably isn't the kind of RAM you'll be dropping into your next gaming PC. The standards body announced new milestones for DDR5 MRDIMM...
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Have you ever been using a machine with an Intel wireless adapter and had a Bluetooth device simply disappear on you? It's been an issue for a while, particularly when you're using 2.4G Wi-Fi at the same time as Bluetooth. Microsoft issued...
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HP OMEN MAX 45L Gaming Desktop: $6894 As Tested HP's most powerful pre-built gaming PC impresses with gorgeous looks, silent operation, and great performance, all wrapped up in a reasonably-priced package considering the hardware on offer...
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It may be hard to believe, but this August will be eight years since the release of the original GeForce RTX GPUs. Over time, matrix math accelerators have come to consume more and more of our GPU dies, and not just NVIDIA's either; both...
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If you bought some slow RAM to save money during the ongoing RAMageddon, you could manually overclock it to achieve greater memory performance. Alternatively, you could use an automatic overclock tool, like ASUS' AEMP. In a new Reddit...
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People have been inferring and implying the death of Intel's Arc graphics brand since before the first Arc GPUs even hit store shelves. After Alchemist was released to a lukewarm reception, people insisted that Battlemage wouldn't come...
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