Proton-CachyOS has received another update based on Proton 11.0. The community-maintained compatibility tool now includes vkd3d-low-latency as an optional replacement for the standard VKD3D-Proton component.
Version 11.0-20260703 was released on July 22. Proton-CachyOS is based on Valve’s open-source Proton code, but it is developed independently and includes experimental
© Chaowanke Our friend Chaowanke has demonstrated an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 running as an external GPU with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop. The test used a Lenovo YOGA Air 14s running Windows 11 on Arm.
The graphics card was connected through one of the laptop’s USB4 ports. Chaowanke used a Razer Thunderbolt 5 dock, a Thunderbolt-to-M.2 connection and an M.2-to-PCIe graphics adapter
MSI has launched the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic, a 40th anniversary gaming laptop priced at $6,999.99. The company apparently believes there is still a market for a portable PC costing as much as an used car.
The special edition was first shown at Computex 2026 without pricing. MSI has now listed the system through its US store, while Amazon Germany
Microsoft introduced Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC this week, starting with Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live & Reloaded, Crimson Skies and Fuzion Frenzy. The games are available through the Xbox app and support up to 4x resolution scaling, VSync and additional graphics settings.
Developer Nathan, also known as TheLunarixus, has now inspected files from the PC release of Fuzion Frenzy. According to his findings, the package contains XEX2 and
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NVIDIA has reportedly informed its add-in card partners of higher prices for GPU kits supplied with graphics memory. The adjustment covers GeForce products using both GDDR7 and GDDR6 memory, according to BenchLife.
Board partners commonly purchase the GPU and VRAM together as a kit supplied through NVIDIA. BenchLife says the new notification follows an earlier price adjustment for the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX
Framework has announced new pricing and configuration changes for the Framework Laptop 13 Pro after receiving an unexpected cost update from its LPCAMM2 supplier. The company says the new module prices are more than double the cost o f its previous inventory.
Framework had expected LPCAMM2 prices to increase by a low-to-mid double-digit percentage between the second and third quarters. The final supplier quote went far beyond that estimate, and Framework says absorbing the full increase would
Valve has updated Steam’s gifting system with guest checkout for games, email delivery and expanded support for cross-region purchases.
Steam introduced guest checkout in 2024 for digital gift cards and hardware. The same checkout option can now be used to purchase any game on the store, allowing someone to send a gift without creating a Steam account.
Primate Labs is introducing Geekbench 7, the next version of its cross-platform CPU benchmark. The company prepared Windows, Linux and macOS builds, a CPU workload document and a dedicated Geekbench Browser section.
Primate Labs actaully offered information under embargo but never sent the promised materials. The company then published the installers, documentation and public results through its own servers, effectively revealing the benchmark itself. Which is quite funny
Framework has previewed a new Framework Desktop configuration with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor and 192GB of unified memory. The company calls it the first 192GB system based on this processor. It was demonstrated during AMD’s Advancing AI event.
The new option extends the lineup above the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 configuration with 128GB of memory. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 4
AMD’s 256-core EPYC Venice package has been pictured in more detail ahead of the company’s Advancing AI 2026 keynote.
© ComputerBase ComputerBase photographed an AMD banner installed around the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. The banner includes an artist’s rendering of the processor’s internal structure, showing two large I/O dies surrounded by eight compute dies.
Each CCD contains two Core Complexes,
