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This 'shunt modded' Asus RTX 4090 laptop beats the latest RTX 5090 portables but you'd be very brave to do this to your own machine
By Jeremy Laird published
news Up to 35% faster than a standard RTX 4090...

DDR4 RAM prices continue to surge ahead of DDR5, now averaging $25 per DDR4-3200 module
By Nick Evanson published
News It won't be long before DDR5 is the only choice for a budget gaming PC.

Researchers discover that dehydrated mushrooms can function like biological RAM after they've been zapped with electricity
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Though these "fungal memristors" have a lot of catching up to do.

Despite mass layoffs and a previous pay cut, Microsoft's CEO is taking home nearly $100 million this year
By James Bentley published
News That's a 22% pay bump from last year.

Out with the old, in with the old: AMD's still selling Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors, now under the guise of the Ryzen 10/100 series
By Nick Evanson published
News Even if they're super cheap, the price of DDR4 will ruin sales.

OG Doom legend John Carmack says his Nvidia DGX Spark box has thermal throttling issues, raising doubts over the viability of Nvidia's AI APU for laptop PCs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Carmack claims his DGX Spark is delvering just half the expected performance.

Cooler Master rescinds its recommendation to physically tamper with its angled 12V-2x6 GPU power connector for a 'fix' that doesn't work, and says it's ditching the right-angled design
By Jacob Fox last updated
News It's not like we're messing with hundreds of dollars of hardware here, right?

Here's an RTX 5090 that you can water cool, without worry about breaking a $2000 graphics card
By Jess Kinghorn published
News You may not be able to 3D print an RTX 5090, but you can 3D print an RTX 5090 coaster.

'I would stay as far away from the Founders Edition 5090 as I possibly can,' says one experienced repair tech, as a key internal connector can't be sourced for replacement
By Nick Evanson published
News If you are going to waterblock an RTX 5090, you're far better off choosing a third-party model rather than Nvidia's complex affair.
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