Intel has a new ‘Gamer Days 2025’ promotion running until September 7thYou get Battlefield 6 for free with certain CPUs or prebuilt PCsThere are also some chunky discounts to be had with some CPUsIntel’s latest angle to try and shift more of its desktop processors is a promotion tied in with Battlefield 6.Wccftech reports that…
AMD’s Ryzen CPU burnouts have been an issue for some timeTeam Red has now clarified that this is a problem because some motherboards don’t run with AMD’s recommended valuesInstead they push too hard with power and voltage – and burnouts are still reported on a daily basisAMD has officially commented on the chip-destroying burnouts that…
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Nvidia and AMD 8GB GPUs sales numbers are low at a German retailerThe Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB models have sold significantly higherIt’s a strong indication that gamers prefer GPUs with more VRAMWe’re now deep into Nvidia and AMD’s new GPU launches, with the former recently releasing the new…
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AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs are not even in Steam’s top ranked graphics cardsNvidia’s Blackwell GPUs, on the other hand, are forging aheadNvidia’s GPUs are also outselling AMD on Amazon, and it’s starting to feel like Team Red is fighting a losing battle – which isn’t good news for consumersAs July begins, we’ve got a couple…
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Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh is rumored for the second half of 2025These desktop CPUs supposedly come with a much more powerful NPUThis will allow them to use Copilot+ features for the first time on the desktop – but gamers will be less than impressed, no doubtIntel’s Arrow Lake Refresh processors, which are rumored to be…
Intel’s CEO has reportedly addressed staff members worldwideLip-Bu Tan seemingly laid out some very frank observations and clear goalsAll this indicates a focus on streamlining and also breaking into the AI arena – though not to catch Nvidia directly, but with so-called edge AIIntel’s (relatively) new CEO has apparently admitted the gravity of the struggles…
With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…
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Nvidia’s Neural Texture Compression feature just became more efficientIt got this boost thanks to Microsoft’s new Cooperative Vector in DXR 1.2Testing with a demo showed almost a 90% reduction in video RAM footprint for textures, but that won’t apply in all scenarios (by any means)Worried your Nvidia graphics card may be underpowered in terms of…
A Firefox engineer has flagged up an apparent issue with Intel Raptor LakeThese CPUs are reportedly crashing more in the summer heat in EuropeThere’s a greater prevalence of crashes in places where temperatures have spiked due to heatwaves, and the 14700K CPU is suffering in particularIntel’s Raptor Lake (and Raptor Lake Refresh) 13th and 14th-gen…
Intel might be planning a big change with Nova Lake CPUs in 2026Rumor has it that they will benefit from additional cache for faster gamingThis is in a similar vein to AMD’s existing 3D V-Cache chips, like the popular 9800X3DIntel’s Nova Lake processors – which could be its next CPUs (though an Arrow Lake Refresh…
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