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MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (347+ words) I'm just bracing myself for the price tag. It's been a long time coming, but we finally have sight of Nvidia's very own Arm-based CPU. And as if to remind us it's not all a fever dream, we have sight…...
Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (202+ words) I'm Luxtorpedoeing outta here. Well, Luxtorpeda is moving home. It's become the latest in a line of projects to grow so weary of Microsoft's antics over at Git Hub that it's picking up sticks. In a post on the Luxtorpeda…...
Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (260+ words) Noctua has announced a long-term partnership with Carbice, "a U. S. -based expert in vertically-aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface materials." Noctua revealed during this year's Computex that it will become the exclusive retail distributor of Carbice's carbon nanotube thermal pads. A dedicated…...
MSI unveils gaming desktop with a unique selling point I misread as an 'AI hostage"
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (262+ words) Pause for the Open Claw. I'm not exactly jazzed about our current AI moment, where machine learning major players seem to want to inject LLMs into everything. Well, during this year's Computex, MSI unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI, a gaming…...
AMD launches Radeon RX 9070 GRE with 12 GB VRAM for $549
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (424+ words) Though MSRP means little right now. With Computex 2026 in full swing, we've already been hit by many stark reminders that the memory crisis is upon us. None more so than AMD announcing the RX 9070 GRE, a less powerful (previously China-exclusive)…...
Computex 2026 Live: The PC gaming hardware you should care about from this year's show
6+ hour, 44+ min ago (173+ words) Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. 26 years later (yes he's getting old), he now spends his days writing about and reviewing graphics cards, CPUs, keyboards,…...
It's taken a long time to show up, but an upgrade to DLSS Ray Reconstruction is on its way
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (454+ words) It's very late to the party, but better than never having it at all. At this year's Computex event, Nvidia announced something that many PC enthusiasts have been waiting for. No, not its Arm-powered RTX Spark laptop chip, but a…...
Asus ROG teases a 540 Hz, 24. 5-inch OLED monitor for esports gamers
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (390+ words) No need to choose between a small, fast TN/IPS or an OLED. Asus doesn't list the resolution here, but it's gotta be 1080p at that size for esports. The CS2 pro's fave, which I tested recently, the Zowie XL2586 X+, is 24. 5 inches…...
Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit" and it's not far off
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (414+ words) Intel says: "That's definitely the technology that will change the experience." And all with an x86 CPU at its heart. But is that added latency inevitable with frame gen? "We're actually going to be reducing that latency," states Petersen going off…...
RTX Spark gaming battery life will be 'much better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops"
11+ hour, 21+ min ago (457+ words) Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the…...