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    PCIe 8.0 Draft 0.5 is Out: 1 TB/s Bandwidth, New Connectors, and a 2028 Finish Line

    The PCI-SIG has reached a meaningful milestone in the development of the next major PCIe generation. The organization released draft 0.5 of the PCIe 8.0 specification to its members on May 6, marking the first full official draft of the standard and incorporating feedback from the draft 0.3...
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    AMD Adrenalin 26.5.1 is Out, and Radeon Users Waited Six Weeks for This

    Six weeks is a long time to wait for a Radeon driver, and 26.5.1 is not the kind of release that makes up for the gap. AMD dropped Adrenalin Edition 26.5.1 on May 6, the first public Adrenalin update since 26.3.1 landed on March 20. The previous release brought FSR 4.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.1...
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    AMD Launches Instinct MI350P: CDNA 4 AI Muscle in a Standard PCIe Slot

    Getting CDNA 4 AI compute into a standard rack-mount server has been harder than it should be — until today. AMD has officially launched the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe add-in card based on its CDNA 4 architecture, and it’s the first Instinct GPU in this form factor in roughly four years. The pitch...
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    A New Report Reveals That Motherboard Sales Have Plummeted amid Chip Shortages and the Absence of New Consumer GPU Releases

    It does seem that motherboard review traffic has taken a bit of a hit this year....
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    Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Launches Today with Real Walnut Tabletop at $1,399.99

    I've had the DK-05 as my daily driver for a pair of systems for over 5 years at this this point. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the approach. The wood variant seems interesting - I just don't know what I'd do with the current desk....
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    Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files Under Creative Commons — Let the Modding Begin

    The Steam Controller launched on May 4, sold out in roughly 30 minutes, and immediately started showing up on eBay at two to three times retail. Valve, meanwhile, is already thinking three steps ahead. The company has released official CAD files for the external shell of the Steam Controller and...
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    Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Launches Today with Real Walnut Tabletop at $1,399.99

    Lian Li has been refining its desk-as-PC-case concept for years, and the latest iteration keeps the hardware the same while upgrading what you actually rest your arms on. The DK-07 WOOD launches today with a real walnut wood tabletop in place of the standard brushed aluminum lid, and it hits...
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    be quiet! Launches Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6 on May 19 — Semi-Passive Mode Comes to the Legendary Air Cooler Line

    The Dark Rock series has been a benchmark for premium air cooling since the Dark Rock Pro 2 earned a reputation for combining serious thermal performance with genuinely quiet operation. be quiet! is now ready with the sixth generation: the Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6, both scheduled to hit...
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    Biostar Confirms Next-Gen AMD Motherboards for Computex; Leaker Points to X970E Reusing PROM21 Chipset with Full CUDIMM/CAMM Support

    Computex 2026 runs June 2 to 5 in Taipei, and the pre-show teases have already started (Ed: My Whatsapp has been lighting up lately….). Biostar issued a press release yesterday confirming it will showcase “next-generation AMD” motherboards at its booth, alongside Intel 800-series boards, its...
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    Ed Boon Confirms Netherrealm is “Definitely Pursuing” a New Mortal Kombat Game

    Mortal Kombat’s next chapter is coming, eventually — Ed Boon just won’t tell you anything else about it. In a new interview with Collider, the NetherRealm Studios co-creator confirmed the studio is “definitely pursuing another Mortal Kombat game,” while making clear he can’t elaborate without...
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    Nintendo Drops a Surprise Star Fox Direct: SF64 Remake and New Game Announced for Switch 2

    Nintendo has a long and proud tradition of announcing Star Fox games and then leaving the franchise to slowly rot on the vine for a decade. After Star Fox Zero on Wii U didn’t exactly set the world on fire, the series has been dormant long enough that a new announcement now lands as a […] See...
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    AMD Posts Record $10.3B Q1 Revenue But Warns Gaming Will Drop More Than 20% in H2 as Memory Costs Bite

    AMD had a lot to like in its Q1 2026 earnings report, and one uncomfortable thing to say out loud: the memory crunch is coming for gaming revenue, and it is coming hard. The company posted record first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion, beating analyst estimates of $9.84 billion. Non-GAAP...
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    I would say the population of LTT (or TPU) readers is not a population that is representative of all steam users...
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    Yet, talking to one of the gpu makers a couple years ago of both red and green cards said team red was about 12% of gpu sales....
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    Valve has published the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey, and the big story this month is normalization. Last month’s data was a statistical mess, with Linux at an improbable 5.33%, the 16 GB RAM tier jumping wildly, and the RTX 5070 temporarily sitting at an anomalous position. April looks a...
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    The FPS Review Weekender Review Roundup – May 2, 2026

    The back half of April delivered a dense week of hardware reviews, with GPU coverage ranging from SFF-ready mid-to-high-end cards all the way up to a $4,500 liquid-metal monster. There’s also a case to be made that the most interesting product reviewed this week isn’t a GPU or a motherboard at...
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    ICANN Opens First New Generic Top-Level Domain Applications Since 2012

    For the first time since 2012, ICANN — the organization that coordinates the global domain name system — has opened a new application process for generic top-level domains. The Register reports that the application window opened Thursday, with organizations now able to apply for new gTLD...
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    Battlefield Movie Triggers Hollywood Bidding War: Netflix, Sony, Universal, Warner, and Amazon Are All In

    EA’s Battlefield franchise, which has had a complicated few years on the game front, is apparently hot property in Hollywood right now. IGN reports that five major studios are in an active bidding war over the rights to a Battlefield film: Netflix, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, and Amazon MGM...
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    Noctua Releases Free 3D CAD Models For Its Entire Fan Lineup

    Noctua did something genuinely useful for the enthusiast community yesterday: the Austrian cooling stalwart quietly released free 3D CAD models of its entire fan lineup, available as STEP files through the download section of its official website. No catch, no sign-up, just free downloads. The...
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    NVIDIA Officially Launches RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB Configuration, Ships June-ish

    Tucked inside today’s GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 post was something a little more significant than a patch note: NVIDIA officially confirmed the existence and imminent launch of a new RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 12GB of GDDR7. It’s a strange way to announce a new GPU SKU, but here we are in...
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