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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Jul 01, 2025
The mighty ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 is setting records against the competition. We're not talking about high-price records, even though GPUs are certainly at eye-popping levels these days. Instead, we're talking about the popular...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Jun 23, 2025
The biggest challenges current facing PC enthusiasts are finding and affording the latest-generation (and even some previous generation) GPUs, especially from NVIDIA. One such GPU, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti,released earlier this year with an...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, May 27, 2025
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is an interesting GPU for this Blackwell generation. On one hand, it's by far the fastest gaming GPU we've ever seen, aided in part by a generous 32GB of fast GDDR7 VRAM. On the other hand, the same GPU has...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Apr 04, 2025
ASUS has launched a new BIOS update for its ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 that ups the total graphics power (TGP) cap to 450 watts, which could help make the custom card more appealing to overclockers. The GeForce RTX 5080, with its...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 02, 2025
We're still waiting for the first retail release of a DDR5-10000 memory kit (memory makers are trying to get there), but in the meantime, overclockers have repeatedly blown past that hurdle in a series of world records. The latest...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Mar 14, 2025
The recent release of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D has been a notable addition to the CPU stable for buyers, one that excels at practically everything (gaming, content creation, and so forth). While it looks great in its box, you'll need a...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Mar 06, 2025
Gamers finally have some good news in terms of GPU availability. AMD has launched its Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs to retail today. Retailers in both the UK and the US are reporting good inventory levels. In the UK...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 06, 2025
Update: 3/6/25 - 5:24 PM:We have just received an official statement from representatives at AMD on this matter, and it appears there's more to this story for sure. We have left the entirety of our previous coverage in tact below...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Mar 05, 2025
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 officially launches today in its various guises and custom third party models. However, the Founders Edition variant, which comes directly from NVIDIA, will be missing at launch. This is notable because the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 21, 2025
If you blinked, you missed the initial wave of GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at retail before they sold out. And if you sneezed, you also missed your window of opportunity to snag a GeForce RTX 5080. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti came and went...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 04, 2025
Back at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month, Dell announced several new products, including a retooled Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC. At the time, it promised to equip the refreshed desktop with NVIDIA's...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 03, 2025
Whether the result of unprecedented demand, a bot invasion, or a paper launch (as some have surmised), all that really matters right now for gamers in the market for a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is when retailers will have...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Jan 16, 2025
With CES 2025 behind us, the GPU landscape is taking on some paths that are quite exciting. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will release at the end of the month, with some stunning specs on display. AMD, NVIDIA's biggest...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 13, 2025
PowerColor has been one of AMD's most dedicated AIB partners for decades. Your author fondly remembers rocking a PowerColor Radeon 9600 card, a lifetime ago. The company is known for its impressive factory overclocks and sometimes...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 03, 2024
There are plenty of kudos to go around when records are broken in sportsit's not uncommon for athletes to thank their training staff, teammates, coaches, parents, and anyone else involved in their achievement. So it also goes in the world...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 04, 2024
At some point, we'll have to scale back our coverage of a high-tech game of leapfrog involving two notable hardware teamsASUS paired with G.Skill, and MSI teamed with Kingston. Both sets have joined forces with professional...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 31, 2024
Surprise! After teasing the next generation of 3D V-Cache processors for consumers for a November 7 arrival, AMD chose today, Halloween, to treat gamers to a much-anticipated announcementthe oft-leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now official, with...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 25, 2024
How quickly things can change, eh? When DDR5 first came onto the scene, the speed-to-price ratio was underwhelming, to say the least. It didn't take long for pricing to settle way down, but speeds didn't seem to ramp all that quickly...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Sep 16, 2024
If you're into overclocking at all, you have probably heard of Skatterbencher. He's a veteran overclocker who has held multiple historical world records, but is perhaps best known for his YouTube videos giving explicit instructions to help...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 30, 2024
If there's a criticism to be had with DDR5 RAM, it's that there's a latency hit compared to high-end DDR4 kits. That's the cost of taking memory speeds to the next level. In an effort to lessen the gap, G.Skill has unveiled a line of...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 19, 2024
If you're planning to build a new PC around AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series processors based on Zen 5, then obviously the CPU will be the crown jewel of your rig (and the GPU being the sceptre, if wanting to over-analyze the analogy)...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 17, 2024
If you want a desktop platform with a long upgrade path, you buy an AMD Ryzen, right? Not so fast, says Intelthe company is apparently readying one more round of CPU releases for its LGA 1700 platform. We first heard about "Bartlett Lake"...
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