'World's first' 1,080 Hertz gaming monitor with dual-mode support announced — HKC's super speedy panel hits peak speeds at 720p, steps down to 540Hz at 1440p, reportedly features DP 2.1 UHBR20

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We've seen a lot of brands launch high refresh rate monitors this year, pushing ever closer to that 1,000 Hz barrier, a feat that HKC has now also achieved. Previously, we saw the company tease a 1,000 Hz monitor a few months ago , and now it has been unveiled as the AntGamer ANT

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Nexperia China seeks new wafer suppliers amid legal standoff with Dutch parent, could take 6 months for qualification — chip shortages have suspended some automotive production lines as Nexperia faces

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Nexperia’s China unit is moving to line up new wafer suppliers over the next six to nine months as a deepening legal and operational dispute with its Dutch parent company disrupts supplies to one of the world’s largest producers of automotive and industrial chips, according to a South China Morning Post report. The spat has led to production delays and stoppages at several major

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Razer laptop motherboard repair video showcases superhuman hand-soldering skills — PCB damage appears to be the result of a misplaced screw hole on a motherboard that one repairer says has 'a fatal de

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An electronics technician stars in a video showing an intricate repair of a Razer gaming laptop motherboard by hand. This is one of the most challenging PCB repair tasks we have seen come to a successful conclusion. The repair fixes damage that appears to be the result of the same underlying issue outlined by another repair tech , who asserts that Razer’s Blade 14 mobo

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Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline — players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans

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Ubisoft has been forced to take all Rainbow Six Siege servers offline after the game was hacked by unknown entities. The company confirmed on X at around 9:10 AM EST on Saturday, December 27, that there was an incident with the title, with its Service Status page reporting an Unplanned Outage across all platforms as of the time of writing. While

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You can now buy 2 terabytes of DDR5 server RAM for the low price of just $39,000, and 4 TB for $77,000 — Nemix offers chart-topping capacities amidst an industry shortage

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If it was becoming too easy for you to navigate the ongoing DRAM shortage, there's another entry on the leaderboards for the most expensive memory you can buy. Nemix, an American company, has just listed a whopping 2 TB of DDR5 ECC RAM on Amazon for $38,999 , while you can also find the same sticks in

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Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff

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The Core Ultra 7 265K is the mainstream desktop offering from Intel in the Arrow Lake lineup of CPUs. It replaces the outgoing Raptor Lake-based Core i7-14700K as the high-end gaming CPU in Intel’s

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Chinese GPU manufacturer Zephyr confirms dead RDNA 2 GPU chips due to cracking, bulging, or shorting — Company says it has replaced several dead Navi 21 cores under warranty

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In 2023, reports of dead Navi 21 GPUs began to surface, raising questions about the cause of the surge. While this was essentially a contained, isolated event that has since been put to bed, we've now received an update to the story more than a year later. Zephyr, a GPU brand from China, has

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers

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A report has surfaced overseas confirming that modders have figured out a way to double the RTX 5080's VRAM capacity from 16GB of GDDR7 memory to 32GB. This allows gaming GPUs to be used in workstations and servers, which could ultimately increase their use for AI workloads, potentially creating supply issues. Discovered by Uniko's

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110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator upcycled into a gaming PC — massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components

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PC cooling innovators Billet Labs have taken to social media to tease a new gaming PC build where the radiator is (almost entirely) the PC. The crafty London-based outfit has taken a stubby but incredibly stout 110-pound (~50kg) cast-iron radiator, likely torn from a Victorian-era dwelling, and installed all

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Extremely rare East German games console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction

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One of the rarest video game consoles ever made has been acquired and tested by YouTube docu-channel Fern. What you will see and hear about in the video embedded below is the Bildschirmspiel 01, or BSS 01 for short, produced in East Germany from 1979 to 1981. This is a basic gaming machine,

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