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AMD is reportedly working on official Ryzen overclocking controls for Linux. Per Phoronix , AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K has posted a three-patch series for a new driver called AOD, short for AMD Overclocking Driver, to the platform-driver-x86 mailing list. It is a WMI driver that talks to the same firmware interfa...
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GeForce RTX GPUs accelerated by DLSS 4.5 give you the definitive experience in the wealth of top-rated games that have recently launched, and new titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown and Phantom Blade Zero. On October 16th, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campai...
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NVIDIA today announced its latest GeForce 621.01 WHQL Game Ready drivers, designed to bring the latest DLSS and RTX technologies to AAA titles. This update focuses on enhancing DLSS, ray tracing, and various other visual fidelity improvements for games like Phantom Blade Zero, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, NBA 2K2...
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New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.
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Save 33% on a new Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop at Best Buy. RTX 5070 graphics and a sharp OLED panel are highlights of this laptop build.
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This Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a Gigabyte AM5 X870E motherboard for $1,029.99, saving you over $238 in total.
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Durabook, the global rugged mobile solutions brand owned by Twinhead International Corporation, today announced its new R12 Rugged Tablet active edge AI platform. With the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPU, the R12 Rugged Tablet delivers exceptional computing power with enhanced AI performance, energy efficiency, and mu...
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Philips Evnia adds the 36M4C5500P, its world's first 36-inch gaming monitor, adopting a 36-inch curved fast VA 1500R panel with Ultra-Wide QHD resolution and a 260 Hz overclockable refresh rate. The 21:9 ultrawide form paired with high refresh delivers crisp visuals and fluid gameplay. Certified DisplayHDR 400 bring...
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TrendForce's latest AI server industry research indicates that demand for server CPUs has grown steadily since the second half of 2025 as AI server providers actively introduce AI agent applications. Server CPU shipments are projected to increase 31% YoY in 2026. In 2027, continued growth in AI inference demand and...
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Japanese tech publication MyNavi Tech+ interviewed Travis Kirsch, the client-segment product manager for AMD, and there are some interesting excerpts from the conversation. It turns out that reviving Ryzen 7 5800X3D for the Socket AM4 market earlier this year, was an initiative going as far up as CEO Lisa Su. The ef...
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Super Flower has launched the VGA 12+4PIN OCP Dongle , a small inline box that sits between the PSU cable and a graphics card's 12V-2x6 connector and keeps an eye on the current running through each 12 V line. It was first shown at Computex 2026, and can now be seen on Super Flower's website, priced at NT$1,190 (rou...
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Microsoft might be working on a cheaper 12-inch Surface, and Apple's MacBook Neo looks like the reason. DigiTimes reports, citing supply chain sources, that Microsoft is reviewing the specifications of its entry-level 12-inch Surface to bring costs down, and is also rethinking which processor goes inside. The report...
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Intel's Core Ultra 9 4995HX looks set to be the fastest Nova Lake chip for laptops. Leaker Jaykihn on X has confirmed that the 4995HX uses an 8+16+4+2 layout, meaning 8 P-cores, 16 E-cores, 4 LPE cores, and 2 Xe3 GPU cores. That adds up to 28 CPU cores, four more than Intel's current Arrow Lake-HX chips, with the ex...
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AWOL Vision, a global home entertainment brand delivering immersive audiovisual experiences through large-format displays, home cinema technology, and connected entertainment, announced that the AWOL LuxVision, first unveiled at IFA 2026, is now officially available for pre-order. Customers can reserve LuxVision wit...
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The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro has its astronomical AI-driven high price slashed by 27%.
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Better support is always a good thing.
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Meanwhile, the RTX 5090 remains missing in action.
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Corsair is proud to announce the launch of the upgraded RM1200e with Platinum-certified efficiency, the new flagship of the best-selling RMe power supply family. It joins the latest generation of the RMe PSU series as a high-powered option for system builders who value the reliability and features of the RMe series....
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ASUS today announced that the ASUS ZenWiFi BN12, the world's first WiFi 8 mesh router, originally unveiled at Computex, is now shipping. It combines ultra-high reliability with intelligent mesh coordination to deliver stable, efficient, and seamless connectivity throughout the modern smart home. The ZenWiFi BN12 is...
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Chieftec has launched two compact CPU coolers, the CAC-S90PWM-T120 tower cooler and the CAC-S92PWM-LP45 low-profile model. Both were first previewed at Computex 2026 , as we reported earlier. They follow the recent release of the taller CAC-S120PWM-T150 tower cooler, which stands 148 mm tall and features an all-blac...
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FADU’s FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
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AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
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Save $850 on a new Lenovo gaming laptop from Best Buy. Pick up the Legion 5i with RTX 5070 graphics and save 32%.
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You can pick up this ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SS with a $200 discount, now $1,499.99.
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This is not getting better, is it?
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I'm thankful for accessories like this, but I wish it wasn't my problem to sort in the first place.
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Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today introduced the xMCU, a new class of microcontrollers that runs multimodal Edge AI, with the launch of the Synaptics Astra SR200 Series. Unlike conventional MCUs constrained by limited on-chip memory and compute, the xMCU combines heterogeneous, AI-native compute and accele...
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Michael Dell doesn't think the memory shortage is anywhere near over. Speaking with The Wall Street Journal , Dell's chairman and CEO said things will get worse next year, as the AI data center buildout keeps soaking up DRAM and HBM supply. According to him, the bottleneck for Dell isn't demand, since the company is...
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Earlier this month, leakers claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the GeForce RTX 5090 , effectively discontinuing the Blackwell flagship. NVIDIA denied it a few days later, with SVP Jeff Fisher saying the RTX 5090 hasn't been discontinued and will keep shipping. Now, Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID) says...
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AMD has released its Adrenalin 26.10.1 WHQL graphics drivers, adding FSR Upscaling 4.1 support for Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards and several Ryzen AI processor families. The release follows yesterday's announcement that AMD plans to bring FSR 4.1 to older Radeon GPUs, APUs, and Xbox. The new upscaling version...
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AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.
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TP-Link is at the mercy of the FCC regarding its ready-to-go Wi-Fi 8 routers, so it has a sweetener in mind to move things along.
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AMD and Microsoft have confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is coming to the Xbox Series X and Series S. The news came in an AMD video presentation led by Jack Huynh, joined by Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet and ASUS. The ROG Xbox Ally handhelds are getting it too, and it looks like they will be first in line, while the conso...
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Everything, everywhere, all at once.
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AMD is bringing FSR 4.1 to even more graphics cards and gaming platforms; in a major announcement today by Jack Huynh, SVP & GM, Computing & Graphics, the company announced that it is bringing FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards powered by the RDNA 2 graphics architecture, which date back to 2020. AMD ha...
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These stones ain't no friends of mine.
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Anyone holding out for an affordable next-gen NVIDIA card might have a long wait. Hardware leaker Kepler_L2 claims on NeoGAF that the GeForce RTX 6060 will "launch much later," adding that, based on recent trends, he doubts it will even match the PlayStation 6. He was replying to a forum member who argued the PS6 wo...
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The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
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Save $450 on Newegg’s ABS Stratos II Aqua prebuilt - open the box and start gaming tomorrow saving the trouble of building and supporting your own
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$35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs have been bought by Chinese trio Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, with demand far exceeding Nvidia's planned production, according to report.
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VR rendering technique of foveated imaging gets integrated into DLSS 5, making it much easier to run
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Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
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Axiomtek, a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted to the research, development, and manufacture of innovative, highly efficient, and reliable industrial computer products, proudly introduces the MANO330, a compact Thin Mini-ITX motherboard powered by the Intel Processor N97 or N150 and DDR5 memory. Designed for...
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The Philips Monitor line-up expands with the 27E3C2500 and 32E3C2500, two curved monitors designed for home and office users and casual gamers. Both feature a QHD resolution and 1500R curved VA panel, combining detailed visuals for everyday tasks with smooth motion for gaming. They are designed for people who use th...
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A hobbyist converted a SK hynix 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit they got off Facebook Marketplace for $120 into a DDR5-7800 desktop kit.
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Pick up a brand-new iBuypower Slate PC for just $899, a great entry-level gaming PC option for 1080p gaming.
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The TP-Link Archer BE9700 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $189.98, with six external antennas, a 10G WAN port, and four 2.5G Ethernet ports.
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Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.
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