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Save $850 on this RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC and get all the power, memory, and storage you'll need for years to come
Deal Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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.
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
News Eight channels worth of 256 GB DDR5 running at 8,400 MT/s CAS38 is astonishing.
Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
News Gimme. Gimme now.
AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
News Getting ready for FSR to be on par with DLSS. Maybe even better.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
News The overall numbers follow expectations, but there are some glitches in this matrix for sure.
This $130 250 Hz MSI gaming monitor proves that you don't have to sacrifice speed when you're shopping on a tight budget
Deal It's not the brightest display you'll ever see, but it's perfect for getting into competitive esports.
Bing's latest 'just doing Bing things': Searching for certain AI models in Microsoft's Edge browser earns you a plea to use Copilot
News Bing doing Bing things: It doesn't do a great job of promoting Copilot, though.
Up to 700% faster than any interface in your gaming PC: PCI-SIG announces the specification goals for PCIe 8.0
News A 16x PCIe 8.0 graphics card slot could shift data at 1 TB/s, 7% faster than the VRAM on an RTX 5080.
'There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,' says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs
News Some US politicians may still believe otherwise, but the AI behemoth is adamant about its security.
Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest
News Its gaming earnings are way up, too, but it's console money doing the heavy lifting.
Ryzens and Radeons revitalise AMD's revenues but export restrictions delete data center profits, causing share prices to slip
News Believe it or not, Dell's had a say in the matter, too.
It's only taken six months but at long last, AMD's Adrenaline driver has FSR 4 support for Cyberpunk 2077
News Though the list of other games with freshly added FSR 4 support is hardly inspiring.
TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears
News A sentence of up to 12 years in prison and a $3.3 million fine could be demanded by prosecutors.
Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad
News Tech startups are nothing new, but this one might stand a chance of making it because of who's behind it.
AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline
News If it does happen, it'll be the first ever CPU with 192 MB of L3 cache in a desktop PC.
Intel's new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices
News Looks like somebody forgot to look up what cheap means.
A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years
News Even at 17 W, the Ryzen's lead isn't as big as its specs suggest it should be.
Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement
News Windows 10 S and RT: "First time, huh?"
Can a graphics card be 2.5x faster than an RTX 5090 in path tracing and use 80% less power? Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPU-powered models do just that
News Don't forget: theoretical performance is theoretical. And theoretically, this ain't so hot.
The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
News Intel's going through a really rough time at the moment, but its GPU team keeps on churning out the goodies.
