Author: Nick Evanson
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Upscaling and frame generation are the final nails in the coffin for overclocking, and I’m absolutely okay with that
Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been testing: The final batch of ergonomic keyboards for the time being. Shame some of them are so expensive because they’d be spot on for lots of folks. I can’t work without mine and I suspect that true for most ergo fans. If you…
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FSR 3 and XeSS now available in Starfield, bringing upscaling and frame gen boosts to all space farers
Bethesda’s space RPG Starfield didn’t have a stellar launch when it came to performance, with the mightiest of gaming rigs struggling to reach decent frame rates. The modding community got there first but eventually, Nvidia’s DLSS 3 was added and now after several months of beta patches, Starfield also boasts AMD’s FSR 3 and Intel’s…
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The CPU Cooler Wars saga continues, as Cooler Master sues a bunch of other manufacturers over all-in-one patent infringements
If you’re one of the many PC gamers out there that uses an AIO or closed-loop cooler to chill the CPU, you’ve almost certainly got a product that licences one of Asetek’s designs. That company pretty much rules the roost when it comes to AIOs, so when somebody else comes up with a different design,…
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Reddit’s set to rake in $60M per year in a deal with an unnamed AI company to train future models on its 20 years’ worth of user generated content
If you’ve ever posted to Reddit there’s a good chance you’re helping train the next generation of AI models with your own words, pictures, and memes, because the company’s selling access to its 20 years’ worth of content for a reported $60 million. I mean, chances are you’ve already been used to train AIs given…
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US Dept of Justice used existing router malware to quietly purge a Russia-backed ‘vast spearphishing’ botnet from devices in peoples’ homes
There aren’t many stories in the world of technology that could easily make it as a plot for a tense spy-thriller movie, but this one sure has all the right hallmarks for one. Last month, the US Justice Department carried out an authorised operation in which it neutralised a botnet, comprising hundreds of routers in…
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Intel is asking for an additional $10 billion from CHIPS act subsidies because the chip giant feels it deserves more cash for investing in US developments
Poor Intel. Last year was pretty rough for the 55-year-old semiconductor firm, as it accrued just $54.2 billion in revenue, 14% less than the year before. After paying all its bills for manufacturing, research and development, and biscuits, there was just $1.7 billion left over in net income. Poor Intel. So when the US administration…
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Round three of Reddit versus the movie industry ends in yet another win for the social network site, because the First Amendment didn’t suddenly change overnight
Persistence is an admirable trait, or at least it is when you know the result is not only achievable but a worthwhile accomplishment. But when two film companies tried once again to force Reddit to provide IP addresses for anyone discussing piracy on the site, despite having tried twice before to no avail, you’d be…
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Logitech ERGO K860 keyboard review
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Ergonomic keyboards are designed to minimise the stress on your shoulders, wrists, and fingers by helping to ensure that they’re all naturally positioned. If you spend all day working and all night gaming on the same PC, they can be mana from heaven. But they’re often quite expensive or come across as being somewhat on…
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GPU leaker is claiming RDNA 4 engineering samples are boosting between 3 and 3.3GHz. Remember when AMD said that about RNDA 3?
Another week, another new GPU rumour! Travelling through the hallways of the web is a claim that AMD’s forthcoming RDNA 4 graphics chips will potentially be running at a clock level much higher than we’ve seen before from Team Red. Specifically, the claims suggest the higher-end version of the next-gen GPUs can boost up to…
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One memory to rule them all? New ‘superlattice’ material promises an efficient world of universal memory
Ever wondered what the perfect memory chip would be like? Well, it would have to be faster than the best DRAM, store data for decades at a time so it could be used like flash memory, and use less energy than both for high efficiency. That might sound like a pipe dream but a team…