One Shots: Where are my draaaaaagons?
Despite what certain platinum blondes might tell you, nobody owns dragons. At best, you can rent one from Home Depot for some light yard work...
The five best Intel CPUs of all time: Chipzilla’s rise and fall and rise
We’ve gone through Intel’s decades-long history to find its top five CPUs.
Gigabyte X670E Aorus Pro X motherboard review: Striking in white, with lots of USB
The Gigabyte X670E Aorus Pro X is an updated AM5 board with Wi-Fi 7 and a unique white/gray appearance. For around $300, you get two PCIe 5.0 x4-capable M.2 sockets (rare at this price), loads of USB storage including front and rear 20 Gbps Type-C, and was a solid performer in our test suite.
The Daily Grind: Does your choice of computer hardware influence your MMO decisions?
If you have a Macintosh, your choice of MMO gaming is a bit more restrained than it is for others. It’s not nonexistent, of course,...
Modding ancient AGP slots is still oddly popular in 2024 to add modern GPUs and boost networking — two adaptors enable GTX 960
That strange in-between of PCI and PCIe slots, AGP, has been repurposed for a modern-day NAS board by YouTuber RECNAS for fun and/or profit. Additionally, a Twitter user @tercio_miranda also came across a GTX 960 elaborately mounted to an AGP slot through 2 adapters.
The Fosi Audio LC30 VU Meter Amplifier And Speaker Selector
Fosi Audio has been trending towards simplicity lately, with their amps dropping all but the volume control. The LC30 is a complete change in direction,...
The newly recognized Activision QA United is now the biggest union in the US games industry
Yet another group of Activision-Blizzard workers under Microsoft have voted to unionize: a reported 600 Activision central QA workers in Texas, Minnesota, and California have...
Broken Ranks releases community-oriented update and 2024 roadmap
Broken Ranks sits at a strange intersection of the MMO world: It’s turn-based, it’s isometric, and it’s a grimdark title that actually impressed us when...
Lost Ark wants your feedback on why you quit – and how bad the bots are
Lost Ark is in a weird position right now: It’s in the middle of merges with more on the way, a plague of unrelenting bots,...
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs Allegedly Will Retain Ada’s Memory Interface
The top-end Ada Lovelace graphics processor, the AD102, sports a 384-bit memory interface. In combination with 21-Gbps GDDR6X memory, this nets the Geforce RTX 4090 a grand 1008 GB/second of memory bandwidth. The lower-end GPUs weren’t so fortunate, though. AD103, the chip behind the RTX 4080, drops a full third of the interface, and then