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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 16, 2025
For tech media like Hot Hardware, the new year means a plethora of new tech, as CES in Las Vegas kicks off just after the holiday. It's always exciting to see the new products and fresh announcements, but the multitude of reveals and unveilings can be tough to track, especially if you're at...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 13, 2025
What if you could have sixteen desktop-class AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and a 96GB professional GPU in a thin & light laptop without compromising performance? Well, that's the promise of AMD's Ryzen AI MAX processors, code-named Strix Halo, and...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Jan 13, 2025
With CES 2025 behind us, we now have several product launches to be excited about. NVIDIA came out of the gate swinging with an impressive lineup of GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. NVIDIA thought its GPUs were so impressive as to make a very...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 13, 2025
True innovation in the laptop space doesn't happen all the time. Sure, there's a near-constant hardware refresh cycle (both AMD and Intel announced new chips at CES, for example), but game-changing features like the first touchscreen and...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jan 11, 2025
Come along with us as we dive straight into what could be the future of gaming graphics, direct from the CES 2025 show floor. NVIDIA's keynote marked the official unveiling of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and their crown jewel, DLSS 4...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jan 11, 2025
Let's talk about frame generation on integrated graphics for a moment. It's not an entirely novel concept; not only does AMD's FSR3 frame generation work on integrated graphics, but AMD has its driver-based AFMF 2 technology that has a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
At this point, ASUS is the main company keeping Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) branding alive, after Intel decided a year and a half ago to stop making its own NUCs and instead adopt a licensing model. Not only did ASUS pounce, but...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
This year's CES event brought us plenty of GPUs to be excited about, notably from team green (NVIDIA) though AMD also has some products for release soon, with its RDNA 4 GPUs. Information on these products has been mostly muted thus far...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
As we detailed in our Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, AMD's first consumer Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache is a beastly slice of silicon that's an ideal choice to build a gaming PC around. The market agrees, as evidenced by the chip frequently being...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Jan 09, 2025
This year's CES 2025 has so far exposed us to a lot of new products, especially with gaming hardware. While NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series was the notable announcement, gaming laptops featuring the GPUs are also being displayed. MSI has...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 09, 2025
Among other things, Razer is showcasing some new gaming chairs at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, including a toned down (and cheaper) variant of the Iskur V2 we reviewed last March called the Iskur V2 X. One of the more...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 09, 2025
NVIDIA is promising some monster gains from its new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090. That's especially true if taking advantage of a new DLSS implementation, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, which is a whole topic in and of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
Several major players in the PC space have made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and that includes AMD, which unveiled an onslaught of new processors. We saw AMD expand its 3D V-Cache lineup with more desktop...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
After what has been a very long gestational period, Aptera's promise of a production version Aptera Solar EV could be coming to fruition by year's end. If you don't mind driving around in a two-seater that looks like a cross between a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
We're midway through this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and are continuing to see some cool new product releases and concepts. One that we can add to the list is MSI's Meg Vision X AI, a desktop gaming PC that is a dual CES 2025...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
We're venturing into territory of unprecedented consumer storage speeds as solid state drive (SSD) makers push the limits of the PCI Express 5.0 bus. The biggest challenge is keeping temps in check (though that's not the only challenge)...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
Lenovo has a big booth at CES 2025 full of the PC maker's latest products. We checked out the Legion Go S running SteamOS earlier, and we also got a first look at the company's newest Thinkpad, known as the X9. This specific model is the...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
NVIDIA has been busy at this year’s CES, unveiling a lot of new hardware including its latest line of GPUs and best efforts in what it believes is the future of robotics. However, you can’t exactly fit a full-fledged RTX 5090 into...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
With Microsoft's Windows Copilot AI graduating from a basic ChatGPT competitor to its current, more mature Copilot+ form, PC makers are starting to wake to its abilities and potential within the hardware landscape. At CES 2025, ASUS, for...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
This year's CES 2025 is not only bringing us new GPUs, but also some breath-taking systems to slot them into. Maingear has long been known for over-the-top liquid cooled masterpieces, and it's introduced two more upgraded systems to make...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
To state the obvious, PC gaming is not only alive and well, but thriving. Need proof? Just look at the bevy of products announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Among them is an array of gaming hardware from Lenovo, which...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
In addition to expanding its processor lineup across both mobile and desktop at CES 2025, Intel also provided an update on Panther Lake. Well, it's more of a reiteration really, with Intel announcing that Panther Lake is still on track to...
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