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With FSR Redstone coming, AMD shortens “FidelityFX Super Resolution” name to just “FSR”

AMD rebrands FidelityFX Super Resolution as simple “FSR”

AMD is shortening the name of its FidelityFX Super Resolution technology to just “FSR” as the company prepares the new FSR Redstone feature set for Radeon RX 9000 GPUs. A new update to AMD page from AMD’s Redstone labels the core feature as “FSR Upscaling (formerly AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution)” , confirming the change in branding.

AMD describes FSR Redstone as a suite of machine learning based gaming features for upcoming RDNA 4 hardware. The stack

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Seasonic to launch 1000W fanless power supply

Seasonic reportedly working on 1000W PRIME Fanless TX power supply

Seasonic is said to be preparing a 1000W fanless desktop power supply, according to a report from FanlessTech. The unit is described as a new member of the PRIME Fanless TX family with an 80 PLUS Titanium rating, targeting up to 94% efficiency at 50% load, just like the existing models.

Today the PRIME Fanless TX line tops out at 600W and 700W. These PSUs

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Next-Gen Intel Nova Lake processors to feature both Xe3 and Xe3p GPU tiles

Intel Nova Lake with a mix of Xe3 and Xe3p GPU architectures

If there’s someone who likes to dig deep into open source data and analyze every bit, it’s Coelacanth’s Dream. This site provides regular updates on what Intel and other companies are doing with open-source kernels and drivers. However, there had been no updates from this site for months. The last one came in June, that is until today’s update.

Recent Linux graphics patches suggested that Intel’s

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GPD WIN 5 becomes the first AMD Strix Halo gaming handheld to reach gamers

GPD Win 5 now shipping, Strix Halo finally for gamers

If someone had told me in January that it would take 11 months for AMD Strix Halo to ship in gaming handhelds, I would never have believed it. Yet here we are: the first Halo handheld has only just started to ship to gamers, which is both great news and quite disappointing.

AMD announced Strix Halo at CES, but only for three products, none of which was a gaming handheld. The entire year 2025 was basically us

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops to $449 in the US

Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops to $449 in the US, the top gaming CPU

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has received its first broad price cut in the US, dropping from its original $479 price to $449 at major retailers such as Amazon. Prices in Europe and the UK have already been sliding for months, with the processor falling below its 449 pound launch price to around 399 pounds in some

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Xbox Full Screen Experience reaches other Windows handhelds today

Xbox Full Screen Experience Mode coming to all Windows handhelds today

Microsoft is rolling out the Xbox Full Screen Experience to all Windows gaming handhelds on November 21, including the Lenovo Legion Go 2, which was previously not expected to get the feature until 2026. The new schedule was confirmed during the latest Xbox Partner Preview broadcast.

The full screen mode first shipped on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, then appeared for MSI Claw owners who were willing to join the Windows Insider program. Microsoft now says

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JSAUX preps custom Steam Machine panels, dbrand teases Companion Cube skin

Steam Machines customizations incoming

Accessory maker JSAUX is preparing front panel screens for Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine console. The company is working on E Ink and LCD versions that replace the stock magnetic faceplate. JSAUX has not shared pricing or a release date yet, but the panels are presented as add-ons that should arrive around the system launch in 2026.

JSAUX first asked fans to vote on three display types in a community poll that listed E Ink, dot-matrix, and LCD options. The current

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AOOSTAR updates Ryzen MAX+ 395 “NEX395” Mini-PC design

AOOSTAR refreshes NEX395 mini PC design, keeps Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128 GB memory target

AOOSTAR has shown a new design for its NEX395 mini PC built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU. The company posted an updated “COMING SOON” render on November 18, confirming that the system is still planned and that it targets up to 128 GB of memory and dual USB4 connectivity.

The new chassis

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Intel

Intel Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” officially launches at CES 2026 on January 5th

Intel Core Ultra 300 ‘Panther Lake’ launch set for January 5 at CES 2026

Intel has now confirmed that its next Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake, will be launched at CES 2026 during a keynote in Las Vegas. Updated Intel CES page now pins this down to Monday, January 5 at 3:00 p.m. PST , with Jim Johnson, Senior VP and GM of the Client Computing Group, presenting the event. The page also shows

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Windows 1 was released 40 years ago

First Windows was released 40 years ago

Windows 1.0 and 11 Source: Wikipedia/Microsoft

Forty years ago, on 20 November 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0, a graphical shell for MS DOS that ran on 8088 based PCs with as little as 256 KB of RAM. It used tiled windows, menus and mouse input on top of DOS applications and was more a GUI layer than a full operating system, but it set the Windows name on the

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