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The tiny, portable Creality Pika is a joy to use, especially if you have a high end computer or a recent model phone to pair it with.

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HyperX Cloud Alpha Air Review: Open-back and budget-friendly

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Signature HyperX comfort carries over to the brand’s first open-back gaming headset.

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A mysterious AMD chip points to a possible Steam Deck successor.

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Modal taps Nvidia Vera CPUs after firm's internal tests show 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips

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Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.

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AMD's FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 cards, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs

By Bruno Ferreira Published

AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.

GPU Drivers
You can now modify the vBIOS on Nvidia gaming GPUs without flashing thanks to a solo developer’s project

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Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.

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Modder brings full Nvidia DLSS 5 suite to three generations of AMD gaming GPUs

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Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.

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Premium Hey Google: Is now a good time to launch a premium laptop platform with a 16GB RAM requirement? What about now?

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