Rescued retro desk PC becomes the latest device to run Doom — AMD Duron-based system unsurprisingly lets you shotgun blast imps without major issues By Christopher Harper published 4 April 24 A YouTuber shows Doom running on an AMD Duron desk PC found on eBay.
Nvidia's new 'Streamline' SDK and DLSS 3.7.0 feel one step closer to DirectSR By Christopher Harper published 3 April 24 The latest DLSS and Streamline updates from Nvidia improve support for other upscalers and motion fidelity in the new DLSS Preset E.
Gigabyte shows off white Aorus Xtreme Ice RTX 4080 Super — limited run with 'very tight' availability expected By Christopher Harper published 2 April 24 The first air-cooled Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme GPU, the RTX 4080 Super Xtreme Ice 16GB, is limited to 300 units. It will only be available in a bundle with other white Aorus hardware
Micron is building a new packaging and testing plant in China despite sales ban — largest American chipmaker expands abroad By Christopher Harper published 2 April 24 Micron continues Chinese expansion despite sales ban in China.
AMD lists three new Ryzen Zen 3+ processors — without integrated graphics By Christopher Harper published 1 April 24 A stealth AMD website listing of new Ryzen 7030 Series CPUs based on Zen 3+ "Rembrandt" but with their iGPUs disabled points to an upcoming launch.
Mini-ITX board transformed into a Mini-ITX Laptop with a battery and 32GB of memory By Christopher Harper published 31 March 24 A dedicated hardware modder from SmallFormFactor.net showcases a fanless Mini ITX laptop PC.
PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced requirements allegedly leaked — upscaled 4K at constant 60 FPS with ray tracing is the new target By Christopher Harper published 30 March 24 Leaked PS5 Pro documents verified by Insider Gaming suggest the existence of "Trinity Enhanced" PS5 Pro titles, or more simply, PS5 Pro Enhanced titles akin to those of the PS4 Pro prior.
Chinese chipmaker launches 14nm AI processor that's 90% cheaper than GPUs — $140 chip's older node sidesteps US sanctions By Christopher Harper published 30 March 24 Intellifusion has made it possible to sidestep sanctions placed on high-end GPUs in China by producing an ASIC with excellent AI performance in their stead.
Chinese manufacturer Tryx reveals unique AIO cooler with curved AMOLED display By Christopher Harper published 29 March 24 The first major highlight in this Chinese manufacturer's bag of Tryx is an AIO with a panoramic, curved AMOLED attached.
Modder morphs NES cartridge into a working console that plays other NES games — and itself By Christopher Harper published 29 March 24 Using a toolkit including a mini circular saw, YouTuber James Channel turns an NES Open Tournament Golf cartridge into an entire NES
MSI introduces Spatium M580 Frozr, a PCIe 5.0 SSD rated for 14.6 GB/s read and 12.7 GB/s write By Christopher Harper published 28 March 24 An extremely fast SSD with a massive tower heatsink.
Leak reveals Microsoft's next Xbox with familiar design in white — alleged 'Brooklin' revamp is dead By Christopher Harper published 28 March 24 A previously leaked Series X digital refresh pointed toward a revised design, but the current console is simply a palette swap without disc support
Nvidia's new ChatGPT-like AI chatbot falls victim to high-severity security vulnerabilities - urgent ChatRTX patch issued By Christopher Harper published 28 March 24 Nvidia's ChatRTX, previously dubbed Chat With RTX, was prone to some severe cybersecurity issues that were only just addressed in a security hotfix.
Microsoft's newly-unified Windows and Surface Team gets a new head — restructuring and AI in Redmond By Christopher Harper published 26 March 24 Microsoft's newly-unified Windows and Surface Team will be headed up by Pavan Davuluri, previously the Corporate VP of Microsoft.
AOC launches its first 240 Hz OLED ultrawide — $1,399 for the 44.5-inch Agon Pro AG456UCZD By Christopher Harper published 26 March 24 3440x1440 resolution and 98.5% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.
YouTuber assembles single-slot low-profile Intel Arc A380 GPU using A310 cooler By Christopher Harper published 26 March 24 Modder combines an Intel Arc A310 GPU cooler with an Intel Arc A380 GPU in order to mount it inside a MinisForum MS-01, which can only fit a single-slot GPU despite its PCIe 5.0 support.
South Korean Search giant Naver pivots away from Nvidia – Samsung will supply $752 million in AI chips instead By Christopher Harper published 26 March 24 Naver, South Korea's top search engine provider, is shifting more of its hardware to Intel, and now Samsung, in efforts to avoid Nvidia's sometimes-gratuitous pricing.
Leak suggests AMD's upcoming 'Turin' Zen 5 CPUs will support 4TB of RAM at 6000 MT/s By Christopher Harper published 25 March 24 A leaked Socket SP5 motherboard spec sheet reveals faster memory bandwidth for upcoming Zen 5-based Epyc "Turin" CPUs.
Asus ROG NUC has a $1,629 starting price — entry-level SKU comes with Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and RTX 4060 GPU By Christopher Harper published 23 March 24 Asus reveals pricing and maximum performance configurations of its upcoming ROG NUCs, which will include up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU and discrete RTX 4070 GPU.
Denuvo DRM maker cracks down on game leakers with new tech — TraceMark for Gaming puts a watermark on games to unmask the source By Christopher Harper published 23 March 24 Irdeto, makers of Denuvo, continue to draw ire as they announce TraceMark for Gaming to eliminate modern game leaks as we know them.
Unlike Apple's chips, Qualcomm's X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance By Christopher Harper published 22 March 24 Qualcomm, in a victory for Arm CPU architecture and especially itself, point toward competent gaming performance in x86 applications on its upcoming X Elite-based laptops.
Notepad on Windows 11 gets spellcheck feature 41 years after launch By Christopher Harper published 22 March 24 41 years after its initial launch, the Notepad tool finally gets spellcheck, but only in Windows 11.
VR 'inception' attacks exploit developer mode loophole and VR's dreamlike unreality to manipulate what you see, steal real personal data By Christopher Harper published 21 March 24 Researchers unveiled and demonstrated "Inception attacks", most likely named for the Nolan thriller themed around infiltrating dreams, on March 8th, 2024.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 shown at GDC 2024: 'Decoupled' Frame Gen can work with other upscalers By Christopher Harper published 21 March 24 AMD's FSR 3.1 Frame Generation has been updated to work with other upscaling solutions like DLSS and XeSS.
Video shows world's first Neuralink brain interface patient playing PC games and chess with his mind By Christopher Harper published 20 March 24 Neuralink's first documented human patient uses the brain interface to control a PC, and explains how it works simultaneously in live testing footage.