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The most interesting result this week wasn’t a new product. It was an old flagship refusing to retire. TechSpot ran 51 games and found the Radeon RX 7900 XTX now trades blows with the RX 9070 XT almost everywhere. Elsewhere, we re-ran the Ryzen 9 9900X3D through our late-2026 test suite, Phantom...

If you’ve priced a DDR5 kit or a high-end graphics card this year, you already know the AI industry eats first. Now one of the hungriest companies at that table has opened its books. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude models, filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC today. For...

FSR 4.1 on Radeon RX 6000 Written reviews: Video reviews: Consensus summary: Both German outlets reached the same conclusion: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 2 is a huge image quality upgrade over FSR 3.1. It is more detailed, less grainy, and far more temporally stable, though not quite as clean as it looks on...

Radeon RX 6000 owners were told to wait until early 2027 for AMD’s machine-learning upscaler. They got it in October instead. AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1, released October 20, adds FSR Upscaling 4.1 support for: AMD’s Jack Huynh said FSR 4.1 has been tuned and optimized across the...

Borderlands 4 got a patch on October 22 with a long changelog. The most interesting change may be the one that isn’t in it. Following the game’s Version 1.11 update, community trackers noticed the main executable, Borderlands4.exe, shrank by roughly 171.69 MB according to SteamDB’s build...

CD Projekt Red called a previous update the last one, and Night City keeps not getting the memo. Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update, version 2.5, went live October 22 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, timed to Season 2 of the Netflix anime. CDPR’s patch notes are headlined by the...

The “compiling shaders” screen has a target on its back, and as of this week every major PC graphics vendor is in on it. NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 621.01 WHQL driver adds support for Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) on GeForce RTX hardware. It launches with Call of Duty: Modern...

Plenty of AM4 owners assumed AMD brought back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D because DDR5 prices went off a cliff. It turns out the plan predates the memory crisis, and it came from the very top. In an interview with Japan’s Mynavi TECH+, AMD Senior Director of Client Product Management Travis Kirsch was...

Half-Life fans have spent two years decoding file strings, group names, and console variables. Now they have something better: a Valve employee saying the word into a microphone. During a GameSoundCon panel titled “Valve’s Approach to an Open and Flexible Audio Engine”, Valve composer and audio...

The review embargo for NVIDIA’s RTX Spark laptops lifted this week, and the verdict is more interesting than “fast” or “slow.” The Blackwell GPU impresses, the Arm CPU is merely fine, and the price tags are the real story. Elsewhere, a $699 RGB-stripe OLED from Alienware won over nearly...

With RAM prices where they are, a lot of people buying a PC this year are getting 8GB whether they like it or not. Microsoft finally has some good news for them. In a Windows Experience Blog post published Thursday, Microsoft says improvements rolling out broadly make Windows 11 up to 20% more...

GPU firmware updates are rare enough that most of us forget video cards even have a BIOS. When one shows up labeled “security” with no further explanation, it’s worth paying attention. Starting earlier this month, Sapphire posted model-specific firmware updaters for eight RDNA 3 cards on its...

Rumors are one thing. Empty storefronts are another. Over the past day, the GeForce RTX 5090 quietly stopped showing up in the two places American buyers are most likely to look for it. The first sign came from a post on r/pcmasterrace. It showed the RTX 5090 missing from the GPU selector on...

Fortnite’s absence from Linux has always been about anti-cheat, not technology. Epic now says it has a plan to fix that. Linux players will be able to play, but their PCs will have to prove they’re trustworthy first. In a technical post on the Epic Online Services blog, Epic says Easy Anti-Cheat...

Intel still hasn’t said a word about new LGA1700 processors. GIGABYTE, on the other hand, can’t stop preparing for them, and it seems to have second thoughts about how much it said the first time. In an October 13 press release, GIGABYTE announced a new BIOS for its entire Z790, B760, and H610...

NVIDIA Broadcast started life as a way to make your mechanical keyboard inaudible on Discord. With version 2.3, it is quietly turning into a general-purpose AI video tool. The Broadcast 2.3.0 release notes list two new beta video effects. Both work on live webcam feeds and on existing video...

For years, the fastest way to use the Epic Games Store was to avoid opening the Epic Games Launcher at all. Epic has clearly heard that, and its fix arrived today with an unusually candid confession attached. The company’s announcement on the Epic Games Store blog opens with “Programming is...

The last KINGPIN graphics card was the RTX 3090 Ti, and EVGA left the GPU business shortly after. For the overclocking world, that made the next chapter of Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido’s career a long-running mystery. The latest video on his Overclock Kingpin channel suggests the answer has a...

PC players have spent years assuming they’d be watching GTA VI on YouTube for a year and a half before getting to play it. That assumption may finally be wrong (Ed: Are you trying to be funny with the featured image you picked?). GamesBeat reported on October 13 that Rockstar plans to release...

If you’ve been holding off on a graphics card upgrade until AMD’s next generation shows up, the wait just got longer. Kepler_L2 has a solid track record on AMD’s RDNA and Zen roadmaps. In a reply on the AnandTech forums, the leaker said RDNA 5 will not launch within the next few months. Asked...