I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are

Look, I’m all for innovation. But I cannot stand idly by and watch hardware manufacturers slap screens on regular components like it’s the second coming of PC hardware without comment, and these V-Color XFinity+ DDR5 RAM modules are the perfect example of why. “Designed for overclocking enthusiasts and hardware lovers,” the XFinity+ modules have been…

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Humanscale Freedom Chair with Headrest review

Office chairs can be pricey things. Professional furniture gets that way. You might look at a $500 Secretlab and think it’s a bit hard on the wallet, but that’s just peanuts when it comes to the sort of ergo-inspired gear you might find arrayed around the swankiest of offices. ‘Proper’ office furniture can easily cost…

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I fixed Borderlands 4’s stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn’t have to do in a well-optimised game

Well, it’s my own fault, really. Despite writing an article about the reaction to Nvidia’s brutal optimised settings charts for Borderlands 4, and being well aware of stuttering issues thanks to Nick’s performance testing piece, I jumped into the game this weekend anyway. And, lo and behold, the stuttering was very much there—until I discovered…

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says ‘less than 1% of 1%’ of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet’s overblowing it

To what I assume is the eternal dismay of the Gearbox PR department, studio CEO Randy Pitchford has once again been tweeting. What’s he up to now? Well, he’s applying the ol’ scientific method to people’s Borderlands 4 performance complaints, pointing out that—if this game is really as stutter-prone as you horrible lot have been…

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Strange Antiquities review

Need to Know What is it? A cozy puzzle adventure about identifying occult artifacts.Developer: Bad VikingPublisher: Iceberg InteractiveReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Steam If the “What Is This Thing?” subreddit existed in the Edwardian era, it’d be a quiet little curio shop called Strange Antiquities. As a temp shopkeeper…

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How to find and use the Craw Summons in Silksong

The Craw Summons is one of many mysterious items that you’ll encounter in Hollow Knight: Silksong‘s later Act 3 section, but it’s important if you want to gather all of the mementos for your Bellhome, or you’re simply scouting around for endgame challenges instead of beelining straight for the final boss. You might remember how,…

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