Items tagged with modding
Recently, a user on the Chinese site BiliBili discovered and subsequently reviewed a Frankensteined NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, but outfitted with 20 GB of GDDR6X instead of its original 10 GB specification. Like other modified GPUs with more...
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Amidst the buzz and sales of the LEGO Game Boy, we doubt people are surprised to see that hardware modders are already turning them into playable handhelds. It probably helps that the existing buttons are already pressable on the LEGO Game...
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Ah, the joyous cackling of a successful console modder—few things are more beautiful, and today we got to see it in the form of YouTuber James Channel creating perhaps the most deranged portable console mod we've ever seen, this time for...
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Russian YouTuber VIK-on recently released a video showcasing his modded NVIDIA RTX 4090, doubling its VRAM to 48GB from its already-beefy base 24GB. To pull it off, VIK-on needed to source a couple of 4090s, a standard model and a modified...
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Nintendo’s latest handheld, the Switch 2, has selling at a record pace. With the Switch 2, Nintendo delivered, a more powerful device with advanced features alongside a bigger display. Of course, these upgrades come at a cost, and battery...
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PC enthusiasts around the Internet were buzzing recently, when @I_Leak_VN posted reports of a bespoke GeForce RTX 5090 featuring a whopping 128GB of prototype GDDR7X VRAM, to reportedly be sold for a wallet-busting $13,200 USD. Compared to...
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The Fallout franchise has been rejuvenated as of late after the disappointing Fallout 76. Fans have been treated to a faithful live action adaptation on Amazon Prime, and a game changing mod took players to jolly old England. It seems as...
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Modding an Xbox 360 isn’t for the faint of heart, as the task requires knowledge of both hardware and software. This has kept it an incredibly niche use case. However, that might all change with the release of a new exploit called...
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While EA is making AI a key pillar of how its studios make future titles, it hasn’t forgotten about its back catalog of popular games. Its latest efforts have seen the company open source code for several games from the Command and Conquer...
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Apple’s phone designs have become safe and predictable, as the company is loath to rock the boat with its most consistent revenue generator, instead banking on AI for innovation. That's just not good enough for some passionate and talented...
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The original Wii console (not to be confused with the Wii U) is one of the most popular game consoles of all time, and Nintendo's fourth-best selling console ever at 101.63 million units, trailing only the Game Boy (118.69 million units)...
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It can be hard to fathom the scale of Nintendo Wii hysteria if you didn't try and fail to buy one. Nintendo's 2006 console release was so successful you couldn't reliably find a Wii in stock for more than a year after release. Many gamers...
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Need for Speed Most Wanted, a fan favorite from 2005, is getting some big visual enhancements, thanks to NVIDIA’s RTX Remix tool. The tool enables modders to use generative AI to make changes to game assets, and breathe new life into older...
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DLSS 3 modder PureDark has issued a response to pirates who cracked his DLSS 3 DRM paywall, enabling users to use PureDark’s frame generation mod for free in Starfield. The modder states that in the future, his mod will feature “hidden...
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The Steam Deck is getting a little long in the tooth, and with Steam Deck 2 nowhere in sight (yet), some owners of the current handheld console are taking matters into their own hands. To wit, someone decided to double its RAM by soldering...
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A modder has managed to boost a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card from 11GB to an expansive 44GB of GDDR6. This impressive feat was achieved thanks to the five-year-old flagship graphics card sharing a common PCB with the Titan RTX pro...
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Some enterprising modders have successfully transformed an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB into a model with 12GB of VRAM (review). Moreover, with the increased memory capacity, the memory bus width has been proportionately boosted. Thus, the...
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The Sega Saturn, which succeeded the 32X add-on for the Master System/Genesis, was the first standalone disc-based system Sega produced before its unfortunate hardware market demise with the Dreamcast. The console played host to some...
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A modder is enjoying casting spells by gesturing with a physical wireless wand peripheral in the new Hogwart’s Legacy game on PC. The ingenious project is described by its originator, Redditor / YouTuber / GitHubber That’s So Mo (who we...
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Many folks would agree that NVIDIA has done a pretty good job designing its Founders Edition graphics cards, both in regards to cooling performance and aesthetic appeal. Of course, the latter is completely subjective—beauty is in the eye...
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If you're reading this HotHardware, chances are good that you're someone who enjoys getting information from written articles as opposed to just videos. It's also likely that have enjoyed computing as a topic in general for many years. If...
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One very talented (and driven) group of engineers decided that enough is enough and built their own functional foldable iPhone in less than a year. It wasn't easy, though.
If there is any proof that iPhone users are envious of all the...
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