Author: Chris Szewczyk

Many people—myself included— have had to deal with the woe of a wet phone. My experience came during the Songkran festival in Thailand. If you’ve ever experienced it, it means you get wet. Very wet. Some water got into my supposedly sealed phone pouch, and yes—I actually used rice to dry it out. It turns…

An Intel Lunar Lake engineering sample CPU has been spotted running Windows. That’s hardly surprising during the development phase of any CPU, but this one is made more interesting given the screenshot reveals some key specifications regarding its cache configuration and Hyperthreading (or lack thereof). The leak comes courtesy of XZiar, (via @9550pro and Tom’s…

The upcoming Core i9 14900KS CPU has shown up at several European retailers. Intel’s latest binned KS model is sure to be its fastest gaming chip. Though it’s likely to use a lot of power and pump out volcanic amounts of heat, the price looks to be within expectations, if only going by i9 13900KS…

All PC gamers come across a bug or two every now and then, but rarely like this. I’m talking about the real variety. That’s right, some PC gamers have reported ant infestations in their PCs. That’s bad enough in isolation, but these little blighters have been reported to damage thermal pads and thermal paste, leading…

Windows 12 may not be coming this year after all. Perhaps one reason is that Microsoft is already struggling to get users to give up Windows 10 and migrate to Windows 11. How can Microsoft encourage users to make the switch? Promote its best features? Better performance? AI functionality? Apparently not. In its latest YouTube…

Even if we don’t get a Windows 12 release this year, the Windows 11 24H2 update is shaping up to be a big one. With AI all the rage, and both AMD and Intel integrating AI specific hardware into their latest CPUs, AI assisted applications are definitely going to appear thick and fast. Microsoft is…

It’s been a week since the official launch of AMD’s Ryzen 8000 series of APUs, and overclockers have had a week to tinker with the chips. It turns out the Ryzen 7 8700G has some decent overclocking headroom, particularly if you delid it, which will lower temperatures and allow it to be overclocked to Ryzen…

Owners of non-K 14th Gen Intel processors have something interesting to look forward to. ASRock has released new BIOS’ for its range of Z790 motherboards that allow you to get some ‘free’ performance. ASRock says it will roll out the update to its other LGA 1700 motherboards with 600 and 700-series chipsets in the near…

As you’re probably aware, there’s an insatiable demand for AI and the chips it needs to run on. So much so, Nvidia is now the world’s sixth largest company by market capitalization, at $1.73 trillion dollars at the time of writing. It’s showing few signs of slowing down, as even Nvidia is struggling to meet…