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After years of enthusiast forum threads asking why nobody had brought back the turbo button, NVIDIA has reportedly answered the call with the RTX 5090 Ti Founders Edition Ultra, a card that ships with a physical latching rocker switch on the PCB backplate labeled, simply, “TURBO.” Sure, we were...

Hideo Kojima’s sequel has found its second wind on PC. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach crossed 2 million total sales across PC and PlayStation 5 as of this week, according to data from Alinea Analytics. The game had accumulated over 1.6 million copies sold on PS5 before its PC launch on March...

Microsoft is closing a security gap that has been open for roughly twenty years. Starting with the April 2026 Windows update, the company will remove default trust for kernel drivers signed through the old cross-signed root program, requiring instead that all new kernel drivers be certified...

Woot is selling the Cooler Master Sneaker X case at $399.99 This was originally only offered as part of a complete system (see https://www.thefpsreview.com/2024/08/15/cooler-master-launches-new-systems-powered-by-amd-ryzen-9000-series-zen-5-processors-including-sneaker-x-pc-with-ryzen-7-9700x/)...

Xbox held its March Partner Preview yesterday, a 30-minute showcase focused entirely on third-party games coming to PC and Xbox platforms. Nineteen games were shown, 14 of them landing day one on Xbox Game Pass. For PC players specifically, most of the lineup is coming to Steam via Xbox Play...

Playground Games dropped the official PC system requirements for Forza Horizon 6 ahead of its May 19 launch, and the short version is that the studio has done a reasonable job of keeping the floor accessible despite the game’s scale. A GTX 1650 or AMD RX 6500 XT gets you running at 1080p Low...

I am sour about it. I want it, but after it was leaked and then disappeared in the fall, I went ahead and got a 9950x3d for my next daily driver. Now if I change CPUs, I'll lose an activation on TurboTax 2025.

It went up after your poast... Discussion can continue here :-) https://forums.thefpsreview.com/threads/ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-is-official-amd-puts-3d-v-cache-on-both-chiplets-launches-april-22.19431/#post-102886

https://www.thefpsreview.com/2026/03/26/ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-is-official-amd-puts-3d-v-cache-on-both-chiplets-launches-april-22/

The chip enthusiast community has been waiting on this one since last year, and AMD finally pulled the trigger today. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is officially real, officially named, and officially coming April 22, 2026. It is the first desktop processor to place AMD’s 3D V-Cache stacking...

Six months of complaints, two months of patches, and at least one public apology later, Gearbox is ready to show its math. Ahead of tomorrow’s major v1.5 update for Borderlands 4, the studio published a detailed PC performance breakdown comparing launch version 1.0.2 against the current build...

Welp, that went swell. A hotfix for it has already dropped in the form of 596.02.

Patience has a price, and apparently that price is $949. After months of hints, leaks, and a whole lot of “any day now” energy, Intel today officially launched its Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 graphics cards: the first products built on the larger BMG-G31 silicon that enthusiasts have been...

G.SKILL decided that ludacris speed wasn’t quite enough, so it has shouted from the hills about its memory overclocking prowess. Yesterday, the company announced that its existing and new DDR5 memory kits have gained Intel XMP 3.0 overclock readiness (Ed: What exactly is readiness?) for the Core...

If texture corruption in Halo Infinite has been ruining your concentration lately, today’s the day to finally update your drivers. NVIDIA released GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.97 WHQL on March 24, 2026, a focused cleanup release that addresses several persistent bugs introduced in the R595...

Two external 5.25-inch bays. In a 26-liter Micro-ATX case. In 2026. That is the headline specification of SilverStone’s FARA 314, and for a specific type of builder, it may be worth stopping everything else to pay attention. The FARA 314 (model SST-FA314-B) is the latest entry in SilverStone’s...

Ray tracing performance on PC just got a quiet but significant push forward. Microsoft has officially standardized Shader Execution Reordering in the DirectX Agility SDK 1.619 release, making SER a required feature in Shader Model 6.9 and opening a path for GPU makers to expose its benefits far...

Timed directly to the Arrow Lake Refresh launch, GIGABYTE has announced new Z890 Plus motherboards that introduce CQDIMM support, specifically 4-rank CUDIMM memory, an emerging DDR5 format that dramatically increases per-DIMM capacity while maintaining high-speed compatibility. The announcement...

Resident Evil Requiem has been in players’ hands for nearly a month now, and with review embargo data, post-launch benchmarks, and community performance reports all settled, it is worth stepping back and delivering a clear picture of how this game runs on the PC you actually have. The game...

AMD pushed out its latest Adrenalin driver last week, and while the 26.3.1 release notes don’t scream major upgrade, the technology additions inside are worth paying attention to for anyone on RDNA 4 hardware. The headline addition is FSR Upscaling 4.1, now officially enabled for Radeon RX 9000...