For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be raising the price of its DDR5 memory modules for its laptops by 50% to account for the spiking costs the modular laptop brand is seeing from memory distributors and suppliers. That’s not even the wildest […]
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As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as […]
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With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a single die. In some ways similar to traditional chip stacking, one research team has created a way to implement an extra layer of microscopic switches […]
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I did not expect to be talking about PhysX in 2025. The technology came out when I was still in school and today I’m at an age where buying a motor vehicle could be described as a midlife crisis. No, PhysX hasn’t been relevant for a while. Or so I thought… Earlier this year, Nvidia […]
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Has AMD decided to have its arch rival, Intel, manufacture chips in the USA? That’s the dramatic conclusion some observers are drawing from a job ad posted by AMD. According to this post on X, AMD is looking for new hires with experience of “taping out” chips with “PowerVia” technology. “This is HUGE!” the post […]
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I’ll always be impressed with the shenanigans PC makers get up to to try and fit everything inside mini PCs. The upcoming Steam Machine is the most pertinent recent example of this, but, to crank up the enigmatic dial, every bespoke mini PC has its secrets. Case in point, the Zotac Magnus EN mini workstation […]
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Handheld gaming hardware head Ayaneo has just unveiled its first phone. The Ayaneo Pocket Play is a smartphone with a sliding display that can be pushed up to reveal a d-pad, AXBY face buttons, and two virtual joystick touchpads. Ayaneo had previously teased this gaming-geared phone early last month. Now, there’s a fresh blog post […]
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Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In […]
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I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of […]
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Monitors with resolutions higher than 4K certainly aren’t anything new, but they’ve mostly been the preserve of the professional/creator market. So it’s definitely newsworthy that Asus has just launched what appears to be its first-ever 5K gaming monitor. That’s right, 77% more pixels for your GPU to cope with. The display in question is the […]
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I’m going to be so real with you right now: my knowledge of 3D printing largely begins and ends with whatever project my professional artist bestie is cooking up. What tends to emerge from their 3D printer are claws, teeth, and horns—but I don’t doubt that even they wouldn’t mind a few more colourful filaments […]
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According to a Reuters report, Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, in an effort to prevent its AI GPUs from being smuggled into countries where their export has been banned. According to its sources, the feature is said to be a software option that taps […]
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Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes […]
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It’s been almost seven months since it was first announced, but at long last, AMD’s much-vaunted machine learning-powered update to FSR is finally here. With the AMD Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver releasing today, you too can get on the new FSR bandwagon. So long as you have an RDNA 4 card, that is. Better known as […]
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This is a gaming tablet that makes itself hard to love, and yet there are definitely things I like about OneXPlayer’s latest Intel-based gaming tablet. Lunar Lake in tablet form does very, very well, and its Arc 140V GPU is seriously impressive when it comes to gaming performance. And then there’s that gorgeous, bright 11-inch […]
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The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google and whether it is imposing unfair terms on content creators and web publishers to power its AI services. The Commission’s investigation focuses on two major concerns. First, the possible use of videos uploaded to YouTube being used to train generative AI models. This being done […]
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I don’t mean to harp on the scare chord, but more and more manufacturers are feeling the heat from the memory pricing apocalypse. The latest cohort includes HP, Lenovo, and Dell, all of which have reportedly told customers to expect new year price hikes. Industry sources claim Dell may raise its prices as soon as […]
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Framework, the maker of some of our favourite modular laptops, has announced that it will “need” to increase memory pricing soon. But it also called out Dell and Apple for gouging their customers on memory pricing. To quote Framework’s post on X in full: “We are going to need to increase our memory pricing soon, […]
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The realm of international corporate smuggling and espionage is one that I tend to forget exists, sitting here in relatively small-town England, doing normal things like a normal person. But that realm is there, and there really are people out there organising corporate smuggling operations for tens of millions worth of product. I am, of […]
Read MoreGive it up for the Biwin CL100. It looks like a phone SIM card, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen it, but now we have more details. It packs up to 2 TB of proper NVMe storage and runs at up to 3.7 GB/s (via Videocardz). It’s not even that outrageously expensive, for […]
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Philips and its sister brand AOC are claiming a world’s first in gaming monitor tech. The Philips Evnia 27M2N5500XD and AOC AGON Pro AGP277QK are both 500 Hz 1440p gaming panels with 1,000 Hz alternative 1080p modes. Size-wise, we’re talking 27 inches. The actual panel technology has yet to be revealed. However, a number of […]
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With all the major sales done and dusted, you might think that your holiday shopping list will be reduced to another pair of novelty socks or, at best, an Amazon gift card. To that, we say: “No way.” Here at PC Gamer, we test hundreds of products every year. We dig deep. We min-max every […]
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Today’s best Beyerdynamic DT 270 Pro deals Beyerdynamic is no stranger to our list of best gaming headphones and for good reason. Its MMX 330 Pro cans are supremely comfortable, the open-back design with STELLAR.45 drivers makes games, music, and everything in between sound phenomenal. But it’s not perfect. Aside from the obvious lack of […]
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Earlier this year, Nvidia quietly dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications in its drivers for GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. While the move had been long planned and not unexpected, the change did have one disappointing outcome: every game that used 32-bit PhysX libraries for visual effects would be forced to either disable it or […]
Read MoreDisclaimer Prices for SSDs are not very stable right now. While not hit anywhere near as bad as memory, we’re seeing price increases on many SSDs on a pretty regular basis. So if the prices here don’t match up when you read this, that’s likely why. We recommend using a price checker tool, such as […]
Read MoreJoe Rogan Experience #2422 – Jensen Huang – YouTube Watch On It’s been over 32 years since Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem started a new company together. It even took them a while to come up with a name, but they eventually settled on Nvidia. Yes, that little, independent, underdog company. The one […]
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Yep, Cloudflare was down again. Well, at least some Cloudflare-hosted sites were down. The company quickly noted it was aware of the issue started looking into it. Cloudflare initially said: “Investigating – Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail […]
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Asus was recently a claimed target of a ransomware group called Everest, which said it had managed to get hold of the hardware manufacturer’s phones’ “camera source code.” Asus, however, is saying the group has hacked one of its suppliers, not Asus itself. The company says: “An Asus supplier was hacked. This affected some of […]
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Disclaimer SSD prices are not very stable right now. While not hit anywhere near as bad as memory, we’re seeing price increases on many SSDs on a pretty regular basis. So if the prices here don’t match up when you read this, that’s likely why. We recommend using a price checker tool, such as CamelCamelCamel, […]
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Disclaimer SSD prices are not very stable right now. While not hit anywhere near as bad as memory, we’re seeing price increases on many SSDs on a pretty regular basis. So if the prices here don’t match up when you read this, that’s likely why. We recommend using a price checker tool, such as CamelCamelCamel, […]
Read MoreEven if you only have a passing interest in PCs and technology, it can’t have escaped your notice that the whole industry has a problem with RAM. So you might think it’s good news that SK hynix is said to be investing over half a trillion dollars in building new RAM factories, but the reality […]
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