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The hardware crisis has hit a new low: We're now using rats for RAM
8+ hour, 53+ min ago (255+ words) Good news from the near future: Space travel has apparently advanced enough to allow humanity to establish a hotel on the surface of the moon. Bad news: The RAMpocalypse apparently continues unabated, forcing novel experimentation with alternate forms of computer…...
Nvidia has finally rounded out the DLSS 4.5 stack… now where's DLSS 5?
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (795+ words) Nvidia has rounded out the DLSS 4.5 stack… now where's DLSS 5? Leave a game's viewport still and the scene will pretty rapidly come together to make a sharp, convincing image. Shift that around, or have that scene filled with moving objects…...
There were two Windows 95 boxes because an unnamed government thought the baby on it was naked
14+ hour, 40+ min ago (359+ words) Microsoft says the government "shall remain nameless for obvious reasons". Did you know there are two different holograms on old boxes of Windows 95? I didn't. Did you know one of them has a child with no top pointing at Microsoft…...
Arm is teaming up with IBM for a fancy new dual-architecture processor
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (407+ words) It will reportedly operate at more than 5.7 GHz. Prior to this, running multiple sets of instructions would require emulating the right instructions, ie, turning instructions from one architecture to another that can actually be processed by the cores. Though we…...
I love Be Quiet's latest mechanical keyboard without the clack, but I may be in the minority.
18+ hour, 33+ min ago (1624+ words) My prime PC gaming hours tend to be when the rest of my household is already in bed. As such, the fantastically clicky-clacky key presses of a mechanical gaming keyboard echoing through our halls isn't really ideal. It's just as…...
One unlucky Redditor was twice sent an empty box instead of a CPU
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (333+ words) They call it the 9600X ghost edition. One exceedingly unlucky Redditor ordered a Ryzen 5 9600X on Amazon only to have an empty box show up instead. After getting a refund and purchasing a second AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, that too seemed to be an…...
This $299 gaming monitor deal speaks for itself: QD-OLED, 1440p, 240 Hz and FreeSync Premium
19+ hour ago (447+ words) It's the cheapest QD-OLED I've ever seen. Take a second to look at the specs on offer here, then back to the price, then back to the specs again. That speaks for itself, and we've had a good run with…...
The rest of this year is going to suck even harder for GPU pricing, says the biggest GPU maker
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (321+ words) One of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards has noted in its results that the second half of this year is going to suck for GPUs. A couple weeks back I noted that I'd been tracking GPU prices on an…...
Windows update that breaks games may be linked to RGB lighting says Microsoft
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (426+ words) I knew all this showboating would bite us in the butt one day. Last week, we covered the very strange occurrence of a bug in the latest Windows update. Yes, a bug in a Windows update, say it isn't so....
The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (861+ words) Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point. Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten…...