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NewsIf you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
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Happy birthdayApple turns 50 today: here's what it does better than PC (no foolin')
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NewsNvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
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NewsGoogle says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
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NewsTrendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
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NewsTo the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
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NewsNow that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
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Score: 87%EasySMX D05 review
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Score: 80%EasySMX D10 controller review
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NewsThis simple gaming chair bracket could have saved me years of sim racing with two wooden blocks holding my pedals in place
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Score: 72%Hyperkin Competitor review
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DrivenBest PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing
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Total controlBest PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
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GuideHow to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth
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GuideHow to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth
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Score: 86%Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review
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NewsYou can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect
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NewsYouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan
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Score: 70%Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review
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NewsDer8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun
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Score: 94%Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review
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Cool BreezeBest CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
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Air driedBest air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers
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NewsNoctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon
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CES 2026Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler
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Score: 76%Asus ROG Kithara headset review
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Score: 71%Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review
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Budding gamersThe best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
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Score: 88%EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review
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Score: 84%Logitech G325 Lightspeed review
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Score: 84%Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review
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NewsNew research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies
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Quality cansThe best gaming headsets in Australia for 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
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NewsArtist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'
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Take a seatBest gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
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Score: 89%ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review
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Score: 82%DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review
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NewsThe Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance
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Take a seatBest office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
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Score: 80%AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review
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CES 2026'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one
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DealsBlack Friday gaming chair deals 2025
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Saddle upFive things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming chair
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Top DesksBest gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
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Score: 86%Secretlab Magnus Evo review
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Swanky surfaceFor the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)
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Grovemade desk review
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Score: 85%Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review
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Score: 82%Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
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NewsThere's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
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Thunder X3 Lab-X review
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ALL THE SPACEIkea Utespelare desk review
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Score: 73%Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review
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Keyed inBest gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
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Score 82%Asus ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE review
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Score: 70%Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless gaming keyboard review
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Amicable splitSplit spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend
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NewsMode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot
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Score: 75%Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review
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Score: 74%Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR TKL review
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As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected
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If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
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Score: 80%MacBook Neo review
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Is an Alienware Area-51 laptop really for you? Your questions answered
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NewsNew benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance
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Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'
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NewsAs if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%
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NewsThis shady Amazon listing for a 1.1 TB laptop actually uses the cloud for 1 TB and it's only included for a year
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ResurrectionI'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
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NewsThis tool tells you exactly how much your latency could improve by changing your mouse's polling rate
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News2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for gaming mice, as Razer's battery-boosting FrameSync adds more goodies to the pot
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NewsRazer's web-based gaming mouse and keyboard software remains 'in Beta while development continues' despite support for the Viper V4 Pro
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NewsRazer's new Viper V4 Pro could be as big of a deal for competitive gamers as the Logitech Superstrike, even without those haptic clicks
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SqueakwareGaming mouse software should stay out of your way and it's the smaller manufacturers that seem to have received that memo
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Score: 89%Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review
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Boom and bustThe one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we've come a long way from the old Razer Boomslang, baby
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Score: 68%Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Wireless CF review
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UnboundBest wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
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NewsSay what you want about burn-in, sales of OLED PC monitors surged by 92% in 2025
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NewsLG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours
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More than a gaming monitor: meet MSI’s MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36
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Score: 80%Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG gaming monitor review
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NewsOne of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech
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NewsSamsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode
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NewsAfter two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in
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NewsA redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts
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NewsSamsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
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DIYBest gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
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NewsModder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'
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NewsTop analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026
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NewsOne Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool'
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NewsThis creator extraordinaire has built a gaming PC attached to a Victorian cast-iron radiator that is fully integrated into the cooling system, and I am in complete awe
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NewsAcer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again
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NewsAll hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices
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News'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned
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Score: 87%iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review
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Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
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Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
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NewsThe latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
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Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing
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NewsIntel launches the Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Big Battlemage GPU we've been waiting for forever but it's for AI, not gaming
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News'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5
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NewsArc Raiders is a shining beacon of hope in the darkest times of the RAMpocalypse, proving 8 GB budget graphics cards don't have to miss out on glorious graphics
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NewsSony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade
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News'I don't love AI slop myself' says Nvidia chief Jensen Huang: 'I'm empathetic towards what [gamers] are thinking. That's just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do'
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NewsPearl Abyss says to roll back your GPU driver if you're struggling to get Crimson Desert working on your ROG Xbox Ally X
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News'Continuing to sell this product is no longer sustainable': Ayaneo has suspended pre-orders of its uber-powerful Next 2 gaming handheld after costs approached 'twice the price we originally set'
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Nintendo is re-releasing the Switch 2 in the EU with a replaceable battery—and it's high time handheld gaming PCs followed suit
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Decked outBest Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2026: Our favourite docks, powerbanks and gamepads
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on deckHow to buy a Steam Deck in Australia
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NewsNo, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029
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NewsLenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept
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Score: 63%Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review
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Portable PCBest handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
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Light it up!The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
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Win or Bin?I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
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ReactiveNanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review
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Sync'dGovee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
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ScriptedElgato Light Strip Pro review
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Unit 01Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review
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Lit upGovee Strip Light 2 Pro review
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StunnerGovee Cob Strip Light Pro review
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SponsoredAI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions
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To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
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NewsYes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet
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NewsGoogle says its new algorithm reduces AI memory overhead by 6x which could be good news for the RAMpocalypse but bad news for Micron and co
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Warped speedIntel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff
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NewsThe memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'
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NewsForget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device
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NewsYou know it's bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don't
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NewsOne Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today
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News'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research
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Score: 92%Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review
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NewsIntel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything
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Score: 88%MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review
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Score: 75%MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review
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NewsFortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS
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NewsHidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out
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NewsIf your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update
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NewsNew Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about
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NewsAsus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
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Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
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NewsGeekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
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The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
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