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With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
News Is it just me or is a vapor chamber in an iPhone a bit silly?
Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
News Poor phrasing, thread counts, or something else?
AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
News Doesn't bode well if AMD manages to take the fight to Nvidia in the GPU market.
Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
News Beating AMD will be a tall order, but maybe 52 cores will do it.
Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
News One whole core for pinball duties.
'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
News Intel might be inside, but some wish it wasn't.
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.
Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
News Catching up to AMD will take a big effort.
