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Elden Ring patch 1.18 dropped overnight, and buried in the patch notes after seven paragraphs of balance adjustments and network stability fixes is the following entry, presented without elaboration: “Added ‘Assisted Mode’ toggle to Options menu. Assisted Mode reduces the HP and aggression of...

Fixed the link. Accidently briefly published this last night, so the URL was probably wrong...

AMD’s official RDNA 5 architecture whitepaper (Ed: I could use a link here) dropped this morning, and the headline finding is this: the company has replaced all Compute Units with a new processing element it is calling a “Vibe Unit,” or VU. Each Vibe Unit is described in the whitepaper as “a...

When Fractal Design launched the original North in 2022, the walnut front panel was polarizing in the way that good industrial design sometimes is: you either immediately understood it or you found it confusing that someone had put wood on a PC. The design won enough converts that Fractal has...

The year is 2026 and G.SKILL has announced a DDR5 kit whose RGB LEDs only activate when the ambient light sensor on the heatspreader detects that the PC case side panel is closed and the room’s lighting has dropped below a specified lux threshold, suggesting, probabilistically, that no one is...

Noctua has spent years patiently explaining that its signature tan-and-brown color scheme is not a bug, it is a feature. It then spent several more years releasing the chromax.black line for builders who disagreed. Today, the Austrian cooling company has announced what can only be described as a...

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...