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Processors have been one of the few PC component categories sitting out the current price surge, and the latest Intel deal makes that clearer than ever. Amazon is currently selling the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K for $179.99, a 42% discount from its original $310 launch MSRP, and very close to its...

Noctua spent 25 years perfecting air cooling before touching liquid, and this week the reviews are in on whether the wait was worth it (spoiler: the quietest AIOs reviewers have ever tested). It says something about the week that this only narrowly beats Cooler Master’s trident-shaped 3DHP...

After months of anticipation and a confirmation at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, id Software’s first major expansion for DOOM: The Dark Ages has arrived. DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations launched yesterday, July 7, 2026, priced at $19.99 as a standalone purchase and included at no additional...

Arc Raiders has quietly become one of the more consistently well-managed live-service launches of the year, and its latest update is another point in that column. Embark Studios has shipped a matchmaking update addressing one of the community’s longest-standing requests, giving players more...

If your Windows 11 machine has been mysteriously running out of drive space and you haven’t been able to figure out why, you may not be imagining things, and it may not be your fault. Microsoft has confirmed a storage bug tied to Windows 11’s Capability Access Manager, the system service that...

The new GeForce 610.74 WHQL Game Ready Driver, released July 7, is built specifically around two launches: id Software’s DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC, out today, and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, arriving Thursday. According to the official release notes, the driver enables full...

Just when it looked like the memory crisis had quietly killed NVIDIA’s Super refresh, the RTX 5080 Super showed up where these things always seem to show up first: a power supply calculator. Seasonic has added the RTX 5080 Super to its PSU wattage calculator, listing a 415W TDP, 15% higher than...

Valve published the June 2026 Steam Hardware Survey on July 1, and three headline figures immediately stand out: Windows 11 has cleared 70% for the first time, AMD has narrowed the CPU gap with Intel to under nine percentage points, and for the first time in the survey’s history, a laptop...

Ubisoft has locked in the release schedule for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and it comes with welcome news for handheld PC owners: the remaster has been awarded Steam Deck Verified status ahead of launch, and by extension is confirmed compatible with the Steam Machine platform...

Intel has made an unpleasant mid-year announcement: it is raising the suggested retail pricing on select Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop processors, citing rising supply chain costs. The chips affected include the Core Ultra 9 270K Plus and Core Ultra 7 250K Plus, two of the better-received desktop...

This week’s review circuit is anchored by one those things we’ve been tapping our foot while awaiting its arrival: AMD’s FSR 4.1 driver for the RX 7000 series landed ahead of schedule, and the major outlets have now weighed in on whether the 15-month wait delivered. Alongside that, the first...

The biggest hardware story of the week is one that barely involves a graphics card: Valve’s Steam Machine finally shipped to reviewers and the verdict from every major outlet landed within 24 hours. The cooling segment also stays active, with a new post-launch look at Noctua’s debut AIO and a...

Superceded by a hot fix... https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-6-3-HOTFIX.html

We did it. The FPS Team finished first in PrimeGrid’s National Egg Day Challenge, and it wasn’t close. Every member who attached a machine and let it run through the event is the reason we’re sitting at the top of the standings, and you have my thanks. This is exactly the kind of result we […]...

The GPU story this week is our own: Brent Justice’s head-to-head comparison of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 landed today, putting a focused 1440p performance lens on a card that already received thorough launch-day treatment from the broader enthusiast press...

Half a million copies in seven days for a remake of a 25-year-old niche European RPG is a result that deserves some respect. THQ Nordic announced on June 12 that Gothic 1 Remake has shipped 500,000 units across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S since its June 5 launch. The game peaked at...

Dead by Daylight started in 2016 with a handful of original killers, one survivor pool, and predictions of 300,000 copies sold. Ten years and 70 million players later, Behaviour Interactive held a celebration in Montreal yesterday, and the scope of what they announced is about as far from a...

After years of AAA games shipping with requirements that instantly excluded a huge chunk of the Steam hardware survey, Gears of War: E-Day is heading in a different direction — and it’s a welcome sight. The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios published the official PC system requirements for Gears...

AMD’s marketing chief Saša Marinković posted a screenshot to X last week that Intel’s PR team is probably choosing not to look at too closely: all 15 of Amazon’s top-selling processors are AMD, with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D holding the number one position at $449. Intel’s nearest entry, the Core...

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