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You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'
By James Bentley published
News This should mean fewer cheaters going forward.

Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering
By Nick Evanson published
News DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.

Best SSD deals for gaming today
By Jacob Ridley last updated
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.

Intel Panther Lake laptops leak early onto retailer sites, so it looks like 18A really is ready to roll
By Jeremy Laird published
News Is this the beginning of Intel's comeback?

Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech
By Jacob Fox published
News China might really be on the heels of the West, this time.

NZXT Player Three Prime gaming PC review
By Morgan Park published
SCORE: 79% A bells and whistles machine that spares few expenses.

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'
By Nick Evanson published
News And it's because of pesky DMA protections not being triggered to help out add-in PCIe cards.

This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is the cheapest one I've seen and will probably be better than anything new in 2026 because of RAM prices
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Get the jump on the impending RAMpocalypse.
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