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Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
Seagate FireCuda X Vault review
Score: 80% Big on size, big on capacity, not that big on price.
Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards
Crystal ballin' I've stared at Excel so much, I'm dreaming about spreadsheets now.
It's not just Intel that investors are loving right now: At over $450 billion, AMD's market cap is the highest it's ever been in 54 years
News If you bought AMD shares in its darkest times, you're probably laughing all the way to the bank right now.
If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little
News Sadly, there's no progress yet for A-series GPUs.
Valve's latest Proton 11 beta has been quietly released in an even more beta Arm64 flavour and you can thank the Steam Frame for that
News Arming PC gamers with all the tools they need.
Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
News Wildcat Lake has all of Panther Lake's goodies, except for its big iGPU.
MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise
News And it seems to be addressing its fondness for the chonk, too.
AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket
News The only problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.
Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet
News Your graphics card might be enormous, but the app that does all the magic is tiny.
'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
News You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.
Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million
News Team Green's claim rate shot up, too, reaching a figure 800% higher than that in 2024.
Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab
News It's a match for the competition on specs, but not quite there on price
Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this
News I'm not a huge fan of Surface laptops but I'd prefer it if they didn't price themselves into oblivion.
China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu
News Paying over $160 for a basic 1 TB drive at the moment just feels like a fever dream.
Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
News That rear IO panel is giving me the ick, though.
Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data
News If that's got you worried about security, then don't panic: a little bit of metal solves that problem entirely.
The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
News Tux is looking a little more dapper with every update.
Nearly here! Microsoft ups the partition size limit of FAT32 from 32 GB to 2 TB in the latest beta of Windows 11
News Got deja vu? Yeah, me too.
Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs
News "Hey NeMo, what is a GPU? Why, it's a Gelato Processing Uakari. Err, what?"
Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
News Just remember that 44 and 52-core monsters are unlikely to be marketed at PC gamers.
CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware (Update: Fixed)
News Staff at CPUID have reportedly fixed the issue now.
Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model
News Shame you can't embiggen your own gaming SSDs like this. Or can you?
