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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.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 16GB reportedly discontinued, and replacement 24GB card could cost $2,999

Huge price increases for 16GB Nvidia graphics cards are described by Chinese tech industry sources at Board Channels, with the RTX 5070 Ti also affected.

AMD explains lack of new Ryzen 3 CPUs, says market size “isn’t that big”

AMD says there's not much of a market left for quad-core budget desktop CPUs any more, with laptops taking over that part of the industry.

AMD says Ryzen 7 5800X3D relaunch was “last gift” from CEO to AM4 PCs, not response to RAM crisis

Lisa Su intended the 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition to reward loyal AM4 users, rather than combat DDR5 price hikes.