AM4 outlived everyone's expectations, and that's exactly why I'm moving on
…In fact, I started saving up for AM5 shortly after I built my PC because I assumed I'd need a new motherboard when AMD launched newer CPUs a couple of years…
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Alienware finally gave the Area-51 the OLED screen it should have had from the start
…Oh, and some more bad news. The CPU got to 108C during testing, while the GPU stayed relatively frosty at 62C max. That was on the boosted performance profile inside the Alienware…
I've been building x86 PCs for more than a decade, but I'm not sure my next computer will be one
…graphics workloads, shaders, ray tracing, and DLSS don't care whether the host CPU is x86 or Arm. The GPU runs its own ISA. The CPU handles game logic, physics, draw calls…
By the time the Steam Machine ships, it will have already lost the market it was supposed to own
…Challenge Complete Your Score / 8 Thanks for playing! The semi-custom nature of the CPU and GPU doesn't mean AMD engineered new silicon for Valve, so the expected performance of the…
FSR 4.1 making its way to older cards is great, but it alone cannot save the Steam Machine
…system with soldered core components, you're not going to be dropping in a new CPU or GPU into this thing. The fact that FSR 4.1 support is coming despite the…
AMD shipped Nvidia's new AI laptop over a year ago, and the software is finally catching up
…It pairs a 20-core Arm "Grace" CPU with a Blackwell GPU carrying 6,144 CUDA cores, scales from 16GB up to 128GB of unified memory, and quotes up to 300 GB…
Steam Machine pricing is here, and it's as expensive as I expected
…The console-like PC features a semi‑custom AMD Zen 4 CPU (6C/12T) and RDNA3 GPU. The Steam Machine launches on June 30. You can sign up from now until June…
The Steam Machine can't hit 4K60, but this build does it for the same price
…The RTX 3080 is nearly the perfect GPU for this. Nvidia's 2020 flagship launched at $699 as a legitimate 4K card, and it regularly shows up on eBay and secondhand marketplaces…
Stop guessing which local AI models fit your hardware — this free tool does it for you
…Once you install and run it , LLMFit will evaluate your CPU, GPU, and available RAM and VRAM before ranking over 250 models according to how well they'll perform on your machine…
Console optimization is holding PC gaming back more than you think
…Games haven't evolved with PC hardware Visual improvements have slowed down despite much more powerful GPUs If you look at how far GPU performance has come since current-gen consoles launched…