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    Micron to Discontinue Its Crucial Brand of Consumer SSDs and Memory Products So It Can Chase the AI Magic Dragon

    This AI bubble needs to burst
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    Valve Announces New Hardware for 2026, Including a New Steam Machine and the Steam Frame VR Headset

    The controller seems perfect for me, I love a point and click adventure and lots of them don't have proper controller support. Kicking back on the sofa with this thing would be nicer than the media keyboard I currently use.
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    Valve’s New VR Headset “Deckard” Will Launch in Late 2025 for $1,200, It’s Claimed

    It's going to be lower shader performance than a base PS5, less memory accessible to the GPU than the PS5, none of the improved raytracing or ML upscaler tech from the PS5 Pro, no hardware accelerated decompression, and the overheads of going through DX12 (implemented by Proton) rather than...
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    Valve’s New VR Headset “Deckard” Will Launch in Late 2025 for $1,200, It’s Claimed

    I was wrong, but I maintain that it's a really dumb decision from Valve. I was listening to a tech podcast describe this box as "maybe more powerful than a PS5 Pro", they're going to be in for a rude surprise when the benchmarks come out
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    Yet Another Sapphire Nitro+ 9070XT Becomes Victim of Burnt 12V-2×6 Power Connector

    GPUs need to move to a mezzanine connector which can deliver enough power through the motherboard, and securely mount a cooler that integrates with the case. The ATX card format was never designed for this much heat generation or power consumption, it was meant for cards that look like this:
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    Edifier Huazai Cyber Is a Bluetooth Speaker That Looks like a Mini PC

    Does it simulate water pump noise and GPU coil whine for the authentic experience?
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    EA Is Reportedly to Be Sold in a Deal Worth $50 Billion; an Official Announcement Could Happen as Soon as Next Week

    Ugh
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    ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Now Available for Pre-Order

    Not me!
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    ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Now Available for Pre-Order

    $1k, good lord
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    Intel Arc News Roundup: New Driver, Legacy Driver Branching Has Begun, Multiframe Generation Technology Could Be on the Horizon for XeSS, and More

    Best of luck to them. We need more competition in GPUs, and they've made some good value products.
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    Xbox Consoles to Get 2nd Price Hike in Less than Six Months, Controllers and Headsets to Maintain Current Prices for Now

    This is also what happens when a massive AI bubble is driving up prices for wafers, on top of die shrinks no longer reducing cost per transistor. Things aren't going to get better until the AI bubble bursts, and even then they won't get much better.
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    Another Round for the Champ as AMD Announces New AM4 Ryzen 5 CPU

    The range of performance on this socket is hilarious- from a dual core Bulldozer derivative which can barely open MS Paint, up to an 16 core Ryzen 5950X which must be around 20X the performance.
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    With Nine Months to the Grand Theft Auto 6 Release, Rockstar Is Hiring for “The Largest Game Launch in History.”

    I genuinely don't get why Microsoft are still making Xboxen at this point
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    Rumor: Cyberpunk 2077 to Gain NVIDIA Neural Radiance Caching Support for Faster Path Tracing

    The two are basically the same- if you get higher quality at the same ray count, you can drop the ray count to get higher performance at the old quality.
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    AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution to Introduce AI-Based Upscaling

    *press X to doubt* I'll believe it works well when I see performance comparisons
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