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Unprecedented memory, frame rate boosting eye tracking features, and an ambitious ethos: In a surprising twist Adata had the most interesting handheld gaming PC at Computex 2024
news Bet you didn't see that coming.
Gigabyte's 'Next-gen' Intel motherboard shows off the new Arrow Lake CPU socket for the first time alongside AMD's X870E
news Gigabyte had both new AMD and Intel boards in its VIP suite, and also marked the return of its Project Stealth design.
Qualcomm's new Windows PC chip supports AMD's FSR… and I'm not sure AMD had any idea about it
new The new Snapdragon X Elite processors, the vanguard for the AI PC boom, makes great use of the red team's upscaler.
NZXT's doing something that makes so much damned sense I don't know why it's not been done before
news Yet there are still niggling fears of being first to market with something no-one has done before.
Drop wins the most satisfying sound of Computex 2024 award with its 24 carat brass keeb frame
news The Drop CSTM80 is getting a whole load more customisation options soon.
The reason Framework laptops just keep getting better: 'We're blind to none of the feedback and we absorb it all'
news And when it comes to the AI PC trend, Framework wants to "make sure that there are as many options as possible and we will continue to scope out new partnerships."
I was feeling a little needy so I sought reassurance from Jen-Hsun Huang and he told me it's all okay: 'I love PC gamers'
news After a Computex keynote that missed any of the big Nvidia gaming announcements from the show, I was worried he might not love us anymore.
Qualcomm CEO says 'you should expect to see Qualcomm in every PC form factor: From desktop to mini PCs, to tablets'
news Are we getting closer to a Snapdragon-based gaming PC? Maybe, just maybe.
AMD's broken Computex AI demo again proves you can't trust everything an AI tells you
news OpenAI's Wanderlust, powered by AMD's Instinct MI300X GPUs, completely made up the location of Computex 2024.
AMD's Dr. Lisa Su on the role of artificial intelligence in gaming: 'Not everything has to be rendered'
news Game creation is one thing, but AMD's CEO believes that AI is going to be increasingly used by developers to get games onto your screen without necessarily rendering everything.
Nvidia's launching a new and... er... very generous small form factor GPU/chassis standard to simplify building your new mini rig
news Though it does bear saying the standards are very generous, and enthusiast-focused, too, which has me wondering if we ought to be expecting powerful dual-slot GPUs in the next gen.
Nvidia's Project G-Assist is the first AI assistant I actually can't wait to have running on my gaming PC
news This is an AI that could make PC gaming more accessible than ever.
Nvidia is open sourcing the RTX Remix Toolkit and releasing the Runtime SDK to 'empower developers' in 'virtually any game'
news The Remix modding scene potentially just got a whole lot bigger, and a whole lot more exciting, too.
Framework has announced the laptop upgrade I've been waiting for
news The new high-res, high-refresh screen is going to make a big difference to the mighty Framework 13 laptop.
Nvidia's suspected 2025 processor is now rumoured to be built by Intel using off-the-peg Arm cores. Yes, an Nvidia chip built by Intel
news Feels kinda weird Intel's foundry ambitions could help bring about the demise of the x86 chip.
OneXPlayer X1 handheld gaming PC review
No jack I guess a fat tablet can still be a handheld gaming PC.
Qualcomm is actually releasing a Snapdragon X Elite desktop PC on June 18 and dammit I want one
news Though the Snapdragon Dev Kit is quite obviously only aimed at developers, it's still sporting the fastest version of Qualcomm's new chips.
Intel's Lunar Lake is here to remind you x86 still has a place in laptops: 'You've never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this'
news It's coming out swinging, promising faster AI, CPU, and gaming performance than AMD and Qualcomm
Google's new AI search feature has been recommending people drink urine ('light in color')
news Thankfully there are a couple different ways to opt-out of the new Google AI service it's automatically opting you into.
Razer Blade 16 (2024) review
Screen dreams Intel Core i9 14900HX | Nvidia RTX 4080 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $3,600 | £3,600
Asus' tone deaf response to ongoing RMA support issues isn't going to encourage me to keep recommending Asus tech
news Asus has apologised 'for any confusion' RMA customers might have experienced and is implementing three 'actions to optimize the customer repair experience' effective from today.
AMD will reportedly stop supporting Windows 10 starting with its new Strix Point APUs and you can all blame AI for that
news If you wants the AI goodness from AMD's new NPU, you'll need Windows 11 and nothing else will do.
AMD's CTO has written about 55 years of AMD innovation. And the most common topic is obviously 'AI' despite not really saying much about 'AI' for the previous 54 years
news Maybe keep that one for 'Celebrating the next 55 years of AMD innovation.'
