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Intel Nova Lake with 28 cores defeats CPU flagships in single-thread tests, but falls behind in multi-thread

28-core Intel Nova Lake-S CPU shows promising results in early benchmarks, beating the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D owner claims thermal throttling issues may just need a BIOS update to fix

A motherboard update apparently helped put an end to thermal throttling on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, according to the owner.

Nvidia allegedly no longer accepting RTX 5090 GPU and VRAM orders from graphics card makers

While the RTX 5090 technically remains in production, manufacturers are apparently struggling to get the requisite parts to make one.

PlayStation 5 can now run Steam games locally, thanks to this mod for jailbroken consoles

Jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles can now run Windows Steam games, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Half-Life 2, by using Playden for PS5.

Yikes, Phantom Blade Zero needs a massive 300GB of free drive space to install

Phantom Blade Zero system requirements are otherwise pretty modest, as long as you don't enable ray tracing, but storage demands are huge.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 40, 30, and 20 GPUs get 2x compute performance boost, thanks to this mod

These unlocking mods boost Nvidia GeForce RTX 20, 30, and 40 compute performance by around 80%, without any vBIOS modification.

Intel Raptor Lake Next CPUs are shipping, with records revealing cache and clock speed specs

Four Raptor Lake Next CPUs appear in shipping records, showing clock speeds and cache for these new chips, which will support both DDR4 and DDR5 RAM.

Chinese NAND maker YMTC is reportedly set to mass produce 9,600MT/s LPDDR5X memory

A report claims YMTC is starting 9,600MT/s LPDDR5X mass production using a 4F² cell structure, taking advantage of its Xtacking NAND flash tech.

GPU from stolen £370,000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 shipment spotted on secondhand market

Someone apparently tried to sell an Nvidia RTX 5090 from a stolen Brazilian shipment, but they forgot to hide the serial number.