Recent content by David_Schroth

With RAM prices where they are, a lot of people buying a PC this year are getting 8GB whether they like it or not. Microsoft finally has some good news for them. In a Windows Experience Blog post published Thursday, Microsoft says improvements rolling out broadly make Windows 11 up to 20% more...

GPU firmware updates are rare enough that most of us forget video cards even have a BIOS. When one shows up labeled “security” with no further explanation, it’s worth paying attention. Starting earlier this month, Sapphire posted model-specific firmware updaters for eight RDNA 3 cards on its...

Rumors are one thing. Empty storefronts are another. Over the past day, the GeForce RTX 5090 quietly stopped showing up in the two places American buyers are most likely to look for it. The first sign came from a post on r/pcmasterrace. It showed the RTX 5090 missing from the GPU selector on...

Fortnite’s absence from Linux has always been about anti-cheat, not technology. Epic now says it has a plan to fix that. Linux players will be able to play, but their PCs will have to prove they’re trustworthy first. In a technical post on the Epic Online Services blog, Epic says Easy Anti-Cheat...

Intel still hasn’t said a word about new LGA1700 processors. GIGABYTE, on the other hand, can’t stop preparing for them, and it seems to have second thoughts about how much it said the first time. In an October 13 press release, GIGABYTE announced a new BIOS for its entire Z790, B760, and H610...

NVIDIA Broadcast started life as a way to make your mechanical keyboard inaudible on Discord. With version 2.3, it is quietly turning into a general-purpose AI video tool. The Broadcast 2.3.0 release notes list two new beta video effects. Both work on live webcam feeds and on existing video...

For years, the fastest way to use the Epic Games Store was to avoid opening the Epic Games Launcher at all. Epic has clearly heard that, and its fix arrived today with an unusually candid confession attached. The company’s announcement on the Epic Games Store blog opens with “Programming is...

The last KINGPIN graphics card was the RTX 3090 Ti, and EVGA left the GPU business shortly after. For the overclocking world, that made the next chapter of Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido’s career a long-running mystery. The latest video on his Overclock Kingpin channel suggests the answer has a...

PC players have spent years assuming they’d be watching GTA VI on YouTube for a year and a half before getting to play it. That assumption may finally be wrong (Ed: Are you trying to be funny with the featured image you picked?). GamesBeat reported on October 13 that Rockstar plans to release...

If you’ve been holding off on a graphics card upgrade until AMD’s next generation shows up, the wait just got longer. Kepler_L2 has a solid track record on AMD’s RDNA and Zen roadmaps. In a reply on the AnandTech forums, the leaker said RDNA 5 will not launch within the next few months. Asked...

Somewhere a PC builder is pricing out a 32 GB DDR5 kit and wincing. Meanwhile Intel has just announced a single graphics card that can carry 480 GB of the same family of memory. Intel officially named its Crescent Island accelerator the GPU D-Series this week at OCP. The D270 is the first...

When AMD stops talking about GPUs for an entire keynote and starts talking about racks of CPUs, you know what kind of year the data center is having. At the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, the agentic AI pitch came with a very large core count attached. AMD introduced Helion on October 12...

# NVIDIA Halves DLSS 5 Performance Cost with Major October Update NVIDIA significantly improves DLSS 5 efficiency with a new 3D-Guided Neural Rendering model that's 2X faster, reducing GPU overhead by half while maintaining visual quality. The update debuts in NBA 2K27. See full article...

Prime Day week is never a big week for embargo lifts, and this one was no exception: no new GPU or CPU silicon, just a flood of partner cards, peripherals, and one very expensive RTX 5080. PCMag crowned Gigabyte’s Aorus RTX 5080 Infinity the fastest RTX 5080 it has tested, at a price that tells...

Gears of War: E-Day landed this week and did something we almost never see from Unreal Engine 5: it pinned CPUs and scaled cleanly with core count. That makes it as much a CPU story as a GPU one. Elsewhere, The Witcher 3 Remastered gave benchmarkers some very strange scaling to chew on, and the...