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The latest on computer components for gaming and more
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Thinking of buying a new PC? You might want to move soon, as a perfect storm looks to be brewing for component price hikes
China's introducing new export controls on rare-earth elements - and that's bad news for the price of a raft of PC components.
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Intel reveals XeSS 3 with Multi-Frame Generation - and unlike Nvidia's MFG, it works on older GPUs
Taking a page from Nvidia's playbook, and doing things better to boot - now AMD is the only GPU maker not to have MFG on the menu.
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Intel promises Panther Lake graphics will ‘set a new standard’ – and I think that could be good news for future handhelds
Just hope it doesn't lead to ludicrous pricing...
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Excited for Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super GPUs? Prepare yourself for disappointment as new rumor suggests they aren't close to launch
Rumor about imminent arrival of Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super GPUs is wrong, apparently - they won't be here anytime soon.
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AMD’s next-gen ‘Redstone’ AI upscaling tech looks imminent – and a big clue has been spotted in the latest drivers
AMD's preview driver has potentially spilled the beans on a new AFMF 3 update, and indicates that its 'Redstone' AI upscaling tech overhaul may be here sooner than we expected.
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Intel could take a huge leap ahead of AMD in gaming GPUs, with multi-frame generation potentially on the horizon
Intel's recent partnership with Nvidia may worry some gamers, but it seems like Team Blue still has big plans for its Arc desktop GPUs.
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Hoping for some big Black Friday laptop deals? Intel CPU price hikes could scupper your plans
Market forces seem to be conspiring against notebook manufacturers right now.
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"Making a great chip means nothing if we can't do it the next year" - Qualcomm unveils powerful new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for faster, better laptops
Laptops are set to get another power boost, with Qualcomm unveiling new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips.
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Fears of the death of Intel Arc GPUs may be exaggerated – despite Nvidia deal, a powerful new graphics card is rumored
Intel and Nvidia partnership may not spell doom for Arc GPUs after all, if a new rumor about a high-end graphics card pans out.
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Nvidia and Intel’s partnership could introduce the huge performance upgrade for handheld gaming PCs I’ve been hoping for
AMD is arguably running away with the crown in the handheld gaming PC space, with its most powerful SoC challenging an Nvidia RTX GPU, but it might be in trouble after Nvidia and Intel's partnership.
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AMD reveals a new AM4 CPU, a decade after the platform's launch – it’s the Skyrim of motherboard chipsets at this point
If you ever thought AMD would leave its AM4 chipset behind, you thought wrong, because it's still launching new processors for the platform almost 10 years after its launch.
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Gamers, SSD price hikes and shortages could soon strike again – take advantage of today’s prices while you still can
It's that time again – SSDs and HDDs are suddenly in a high demand, and that spells bad news for prices.
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Nvidia RTX 5000 GPUs could soon get a speed boost thanks to MSI Afterburner – but many gamers might miss out here
It's MSI GPUs only to begin with, and new overclocking tricks won't apply to existing RTX 5000 boards either
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AMD drops hint that it's planning a big GPU surprise for Nvidia soon, though I'm not fully convinced it's the rumored RX 9080 XT
Might AMD have a secret weapon of a GPU waiting in the wings – perhaps to take on Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super refreshes?
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Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super GPUs might not arrive until CES 2026 – and that could be great news for AMD
Nvidia fans expecting an RTX 5000 Super refresh soon may have to wait a little longer, given a rumor suggesting Team Green has delayed these new models.
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AMD's FSR 4 upscaling tech gives even more PC games a free image quality upgrade – but you still need a modern GPU
AMD's FSR 4 is growing rapidly, with more support for FSR 3.1 and DX12-supported games, and hopes that FSR 4's backport will arrive soon.
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This external SSD is smaller than a credit card, and it's impossible to lose... in theory
New Team Group external SSD boasts location tracking in case you lose it.
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Gigabyte isn't holding back with its new RTX 5090 AI external GPU – but no gamer actually needs this
Gigabyte is kicking things up a notch with portable AI tasks and gaming, with the Aorus RTX 5090 AI Box looking to boost performance significantly, but it's likely overkill for gamers.
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Nvidia's Super refreshes could arrive soon to fix the biggest problem with RTX 5000 GPUs – their lack of memory
Nvidia could turn the RTX 5070 into a killer GPU by equipping it with 18GB of VRAM and pricing it keenly.
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Nvidia has never been more dominant with GPUs – and that suggests AMD's RX 9000 models have a pricing problem
Nvidia now has a 94% share of the GPU market, while AMD languishes at an all-time low. So, what can Team Red do?
