It’s the end of an era for cross-platform benchmarking Laszlo Kishonti, the creator of GFXBench and CompuBench, has confirmed that support for their popular benchmarking tools has been discontinued. This marks the end of a 21-year benchmarking journey that began with JBenchmark in 2004. The latest version of GFXBench supports APIs like OpenGL ES, Vulkan, […]

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Apple is expected to adopt Intel 18AP technology for future M-series Silicon Rumour has it that Intel could soon become a silicon supplier for Apple, with Apple using Intel’s fabs to create some of its future M-series processors. This follows last month’s reporting that Intel has secured 18A/18AP orders from Microsoft. This could be a […]

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Corsair’s 6500D PC Case is now available at an insanely low price through Scan Computers Scan Computers UK have a proper Black Friday deal on its website. Honestly, when we heard about this deal, we could not believe it. £39.98 for a cast that usually costs £130? This is pricing insanely, but it is also […]

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Boosted speeds for AMD’s flagship gaming CPU AMD has updated its website with references to an unreleased gaming CPU called the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. This confirms prior leaks of a planned Zen 5 X3D refresh from AMD. This refresh reportedly includes two new gaming CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. The Ryzen […]

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Denuvo’s controversial anti-tamper technology has been removed from Compaby of Heroes 3 Relic has officially removed Denuvo from the PC version of Company of Heroes 3. This was an undocumented change that arrived as part of the game’s November 27th update. We confirmed this change by looking at Company of Heroes 3’s .exe file, which […]

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Intel believes it has the technology to enable future 5kW GPUs Within the immense schedule of ISSCC 2026, there are a lot of hints of future technologies. This is where SK Hynix first mentions its planned 48 Gbps GDDR7 memory. Thanks to Computerbase, it has been uncovered that Intel has a technological solution that can […]

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Sycom unveils its custom RTX 5090 Hydro LC graphics card Sycom, the Japanese system integrator, has built a custom RTX 5090 graphics card called the Hydro LC Plus. This is a custom liquid-cooled graphics card featuring a full-cover water block and an attached 360mm liquid-cooling radiator. Previously, Sycom has built a liquid-cooled RTX 5080 Hydro […]

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Steam is finally upgrading to 64-bit With the release of Steam’s newest client beta, Valve has officially made Steam a 64-bit application. This comes little more than a month ahead of Valve’s planned depreciation of Steam’s 32-bit version, which will be retired on January 1st 2026. This beta update is expected to roll out to […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight is coming to PC in March 2026 Following a long string of leaks, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft’s next expansion, World of Warcraft Midnight, will be released on March 2nd 2026. This is one week later than the date that leakers predicted. The expansion will add new levelling zones, […]

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Ultra settings enabled! Dying Light: The Beast finally has ray tracing on PC Dying Light: The Beast has received its 1.4 update, adding New Game+ to the game alongside “Legend Levels”, a higher level cap, and other improvements. With this update, Dying Light: The Beast has also received graphical upgrades, with Techland unlocking the game’s […]

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