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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...

Today is the day Intel has been building toward for a year and a half. The Arrow Lake Refresh review embargo lifted this yesterday morning at 6 AM Pacific, and the verdict from outlets across the industry is largely the same: Intel didn’t just patch Arrow Lake, it actually fixed it. You can dive...

PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny has confirmed via an interview with Digital Foundry what many have suspected: frame generation technology is coming to PlayStation hardware. The catch is the deliberately vague timeline. Cerny said in an interview that Sony will add frame generation technology...

As the Arrow Lake Refresh launches this week as a deliberate stopgap measure, the PC building community’s real attention is increasingly on what comes next: Nova Lake. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has confirmed key details about the upcoming Nova Lake desktop CPUs. After Arrow Lake Refresh and Panther...

The following is based on reporting by The Information, corroborated by multiple secondary sources, but NVIDIA has not officially confirmed a “no launches in 2026” policy. NVIDIA has held the gaming GPU calendar’s top spot for so long that it’s easy to forget the calendar exists. A new report...

NVIDIA has locked in a date for the feature that completes the DLSS 4.5 package that was announced at CES a few months back: March 31st. DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation is limited to GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and will combine Dynamic Multi Frame Generation with an updated frame...

It seems to me that the 270K Plus may be pretty darn close to 285K performance at near half the price...

Oh hey, I saw this at Computex last year. Might even have a video of it...

Should depend on pricing and availability more than anything. My guess is that we'll see the 9800X3D chips start drying up leaving the 9850X3D as the only choice and/or the price point will be so close that the extra $10-20 might as well be spent. My original theory is the 9800X3D will go away...

Brent can probably speak to this better, but there's a ton of variables that go into power consumption - including the game, the game resolution and game settings that are selected for testing. We don't typically do far ranging power analysis - Toms, for example, seems to be running all their...

Fairly sure for the Intel side, the ram is soldered to the package and not changeable. This was true for the Core Ultra 1xx series, and I'd imagine it is for the 2xx as well...

MSI has a key note scheduled for 2pm ET/11am PT at their CES room today... Might be related?

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As we’re getting our bags packed to head out to the airport later today to venture to Las Vegas, whatever Intel is up to is a bit of a mystery. We’ve got their keynote on our calendar for Monday, January 5th at 3pm PST, but unlike most keynotes, they’re not providing any information to the […]...