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Gamescom 2026 has been a whirlwind of gaming news, but we're HotHardware, not HotGaming, so let's talk about the cutting-edge gear on display at the show. The Republic of Gamers brought more than its fair share of legitimately innovative...
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Time flies, doesn't it? Zotac is celebrating a full two decades in the graphics hardware business by giving one of its high-end GPUs a titanium-themed makeover. To mark the company's 20th anniversary, Zotac is trotting out the GeForce RTX...
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If you're a PC gamer, you'd better pray to whatever divine being or beings you believe in that your current graphics card doesn't give up the ghost. While there are still graphics cards on the market to buy, pricing for current-generation...
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Modern microprocessors come stacked with processor cores. This is great for lots of reasons, but many of the most demanding tasks we run on PCs are highly latency-sensitive because they are held up by fundamentally serial...
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If you were thinking about buying one of AMD's really quite excellent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, you'd better get on the ball and do it soon, because more price hikes are on the way. That's the word out of China; specifically, this originates on the Board Channels forums, which are...
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Samsung 990: 1TB $269, 2TB $529 The new Samsung 990 family of solid state drives features the company's high-capacity QLC NAND flash memory for improved efficiency and optimized cost. Good Performance Single SIded Relatively Low-Power Cool...
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After debuting in China, AMD brought its Radeon RX 9070 GRE to U.S. shores through its hardware partners and if you have not done so already, check out our review. The Cliff Notes version is, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a great option for...
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There is a version of the current timeline we find ourselves in where NVIDIA would have refreshed its GeForce RTX 50 series with Super models by now. Instead, we are still waiting. In the meantime, a fan favorite has returned to retail at MSRP, that being a GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB of GDDR6...
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Here's a quick summary of what we've heard about Intel's next-generation Nova Lake CPUs: they're going to feature new architectures for both P-cores and E-cores, they're going to come with as many as 52 total cores, and the full load power...
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Along with the Steam Machine, Valve has also publicly released SteamOS 3.x, which debuted with Steam Deck. With version 3.8, SteamOS can be installed on any modern desktop, laptop, or handheld PC so long as its using an AMD GPU. NVIDIA GPU...
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PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim OC: Currently $1,299 The PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim OC is a custom, no-nonsense, factory overclocked RTX 5080 card with a trimmed-down waistline that requires only dual-slots but...
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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is a fine graphics card, even if not quite as fast as NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090. It's certainly more affordable, and so the card's absence on Valve's Steam hardware survey up to this point has been a...
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As a software vendor, it's dangerous to be beholden to a single hardware vendor. That's why this latest move from Valve is pretty savvy; the company seems to have added some support for Intel's Arc GPUs to its customized Arch Linux...
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If you missed out on the last time Gigabyte's Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC graphics card went on sale, now is your chance for a do-over. It's not quite back down to its all-time low or even AMD's baseline MSRP for the Radeon RX 9070...
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Overclocking in pursuit of achieving world records has very much become a team sport, and so there are plenty of kudos to around with the DDR5 memory frequency record now set at precisely 13,556.8 MT/s. User 'Saltycroissant'...
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Say it with us now: 'What do we want? Graphics cards at MSRP or less! When do we want it? NOW!' Sadly, we can scream such a thing as loudly and collectively as we want and it won't likely move the needle. That makes the hunt for deals even...
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Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards were a credible effort, and the B-series "Battlemage" GPUs were fantasticfor what they were. So naturally, we were looking forward to Intel's next discrete GPU release with high hopes. After all, the...
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Asus Zenbook A16 - $1,699 MSRP The new Asus Zenbook A16 is a premium thin and light laptop, packing Qualcomm's top-end Snapdragon X2 Elite processor for excellent performance in a wide array of workloads. Thin And Light Excellent...
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If you get your kicks by saving money, then it is imperative that you check out Woot's PC blowout sale where you can lace up big savings on a bunch of cases, motherboards, and more. Why go heavy-handed on the shoe puns? One of the deals is...
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In a deal that is listed at "selling fast," Gigabyte's factory-overclocked Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC graphics card is more than $100 below its regular price, bringing it down to nearly AMD's elusive MSRP. Yes, we're in an...
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ASUS is bringing its signature ProArt design flair to NVIDIA's flagship consumer graphics card with the launch of its ProArt GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition. The "remarkably compact" card, as ASUS describes it, is the company's first...
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Component markups are the norm these days, and that can make building a high-end gaming PC a sad proposition. However, Newegg is offering a pretty sweet deal that will could turn your frown upside down. For a limited time, you can snag an...
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