Linus Torvalds finally let someone build him a new Linux PC on camera, and that someone was Linus Sebastian fromLinus Tech Tips. Two Linuses, one Threadripper, and a lot of jokes about there being “only one true Linus.” Between the Highlander and Spiderman references, book signings, and ECC talk, Torvalds quietly made a hardware choice that GPU enthusiasts might be interested to hear: he picked an Intel Arc B580 GPU.
Unfortunately,
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Refresh of Wildcat Lake.
Technically, Wildcat Lake has not been released yet and won’t be for another few weeks, possibly months. It’s a low-end architecture developed to join Panther Lake as part of the Core Ultra 300 series.
Wildcat Lake is said to have two variants, but for the new series only one version will be used. This version has 2 P
With fake GTA 6 clips spreading online, fans now have one of the few credible leaks to dissect. Former Rockstar Games animator briefly published a demo reel on Vimeo that included about 19 seconds of GTA 6 work, flagged by user Synth Potato before the video was removed.
The first segment shows a man getting on and off a bicycle with detailed motion capture, alongside a “Lom Bikes” logo that could hint at a public bike system in Vice City. The second clip is labeled
A Redditor in the UK ordered a Crucial 32 GB DDR5 4800 MT/s SO-DIMM kit from eBay and watched the tracking take a strange turn. The parcel was marked as delivered at 4:15 AM , logged about 300 miles from his home, with a spiky star scribble in place of a name. People in the thread joked that
Phoronix has revisited Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K “Arrow Lake” desktop CPU on Linux, one year after launch. In more than 240 tests, the chip now delivers about 9% higher performance compared to October 2024 , while average CPU power usage fell from 136W to 116W, roughly 85% of the original level.
The retest keeps the hardware configuration unchanged
In early 2018 NVIDIA launched the GeForce Partner Program (GPP), a marketing initiative that was supposed to tighten cooperation with board partners and, in the company’s words, bring more “clarity” to gamers. Within weeks it turned into one of the most discussed GPU industry disputes in recent years and was canceled shortly after.
NVIDIA framed GPP as a partner program that rewarded participants with better marketing support. Partners that
German overclocker Roman “der8auer” Hartung has demonstrated how to push up to 750W through a single 12V-2×6 connector on ASUS’s ROG MATRIX RTX 5090. He did this without a shunt mod or BIOS flash, by modifying the included BTF adapter rather than the graphics
Xiang Dixian, the Chinese GPU company that declared first domestic GPU production back in September, has presented its GPU featuring Imagination Technologies architecture at the ICCAD-Expo 2025 in Chengdu, China. The cards are based on the DXD architecture and are already in mass production, marking the first DXD-based graphics products available on the market.
According to the company, the DXD graphics card more than doubles overall
This will prbably be ‘the one to get’.
In a surprising move, AMD has just listed the Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU on its driver website . The update was spotted by dataminer Olrak29, who noticed the SKU name on AMD’s French driver website. Apparently, the 9850X3D is already listed there.
The 9850X3D is one of two rumored
A new ASUS RTX 5090 XOC BIOS has surfaced on the Overclock.net RTX 5090 owner thread, shared by user Carillo as a file named 5090 Asus XOC. According to the discussion, this BIOS exposes a theoretical 2000W class power limit and raises the voltage ceiling to 1.15 V, pushing ASUS GB20