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When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
Core concerns Heck, you can even run it on 4 cores and 4 threads.
I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
Borderline forked It's a big, bold world of stutters and disappointing frame rates, even on the best PC hardware money can buy.
Believe it or not, GPU prices have been decreasing of late and here are four graphics cards you can buy for under their MSRP
Deal There's only one that I'd buy myself, but one is better than none.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the lowest prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.
Naya Create review
Score: 68% When Early Access and boutique ergonomic keyboards collide.
Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh
News Truth be told, I think we'd just prefer to have Nova Lake instead, thanks.
OpenAI has teamed up with Broadcom to make its own AI processors, according to a report, possibly as part of a long-term plan to move away from Nvidia's GPUs
News Broadcom recently announced a $10 billion deal with one unnamed customer. Hmmm.
Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system
News If you've done some programming on an original Commodore 64, it's basically that one.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg, an entirely different Mark Zuckerberg. Although the one being sued is that Mark Zuckerberg
News You might laugh, but it's no joke for Mark Zuckerberg. No, the other one.
The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
News Still, any GPU from the past 10 years is nice to see.
Unless my eyes have been cheated by some spell, this is the cheapest RTX 5090 gaming PC with a 9800X3D I can find right now
Deal Who wants a Mearas when you can have this fine steed of a rig?
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.
This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
News The shape for today is a square. Organically square.
Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
News Hopefully, Nova Lake will be worth every cent.
The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
News At least Techland has recognised the millions of PC gamers who use a laptop.
Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
News Beats dealing with PCIe extension ribbons but finding a suitable PC case might be more trouble than its worth.
'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
News Vital engineering research to answer the question, "What if…?"
Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
News It's not a big problem at the moment, but don't be surprised if, at the end of it all, you'll just be paying more for your PC parts.
Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.
I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
News Sadly, no amount of GPU super-tech will fix the rough, old-looking textures.
Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
News Pinky promise?
Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
News Massive AI GPUs are already using them, so naturally, CPUs are feeling a bit jealous.
