Intel is giving away free copies of Battlefield 6 with its hardware Starting on Monday, August 25th, Intel will be bundling copies of Battlefield 6 with its CPUs, GPUs, laptops, and PCs across 200 global retailers. This offer will be available until September 14th, giving eligible gamers free copies of the game alongside software tools […]

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has a framerate cap on PC Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, is coming to PC and consoles on August 28th. Now, through PCGamesN, we can confirm that the game lacks several critical PC features, most of which are […]

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Noctua would “love to” make an RTX 5090 graphics card, but supply is “simply too scarce” to make it happen ASUS’ RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is now available in the UK, and it is one of the coolest-running and quietest RTX 5080 GPUs available. When talking to Kitguru, Noctua’s Jakob Dellinger, from Noctua PR and […]

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Mindfactory report claims that 16GB graphics cards now account for almost 80% of GPU sales Mindfactory, one of Germany’s top PC components retailers, has released its sales data for “week 33” of 2025 (August 11th -17th), and it has unveiled some interesting details about GPU purchasers. According to Mindfactory’s sales data, almost 80% of the […]

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Six new Nvidia chips have been taped out at TSMC During his latest visit to Taiwan, Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, confirmed that the company has taped out six new chips at TSMC’s fabs. This includes Nvidia’s next-generation “Rubin” processor, the heart of Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin platform. With Rubin, Nvidia’s planning to deliver more than a […]

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ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi becomes the first known AMD GPU to suffer from a 12V-2×6/12VHPWR failure I think all PC enthusiasts saw this coming. With the launch of AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series of graphics cards, some manufacturers opted to use 16-pin (12V-2×6) power cables, a cable that is known to fail/melt in some […]

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SMI SSD controllers appear to be unaffected by Windows 11’s SSD-crashing KB5063878 update Following the release of Windows 11’s KB5063878 update, there have been reports of storage failures for a wide range of systems, including those with HDDs and SSDs. According to multiple reports, this issue can be triggered when large sequential writes are undertaken […]

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Nvidia’s DLSS trailer for Borderlands 4 has left us concerned about the game’s performance At Gamescom, Nvidia announced that Borderlands 4 is now bundled with new RTX 5070 and above graphics cards. To celebrate, Nvidia has released a new “DLSS 4 Reveal” for the game, and the framerates Nvidia’s showing have left us concerned. Typically, […]

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Microsoft aims to tackle one of PC gaming’s biggest issues, lowering first-run loading times and eliminating shader compilation stutter Microsoft’s DirectX team is working hard to eliminate shader compilation stutters from PC games. With their new “Advanced Shader Delivery” (ASD) feature, Microsoft may finally be able to slay this beast, making PC gaming better for […]

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AMD’s FSR 4 tech is now Open Source through GPU Open With the release of AMD’s FidelityFX SDK 2.0, AMD has finally opened up its FSR 4 (FidelityFX Super Resolution 4) AI upscaling technology to developers. Now, developers can directly integrate FSR 4 into their games using prebuilt, signed DLLs. However, AMD’s FidelityFX API will […]

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