Noctua aims to release its first liquid CPU cooler in 2026, working with Asetek to make the quietest water pump around, though it’s not the thermosiphon project

Noctua, purveyor of ultra-quiet brown/beige fans and massive CPU coolers for twenty long years, has resolutely stayed away from one specific medium, when it comes to keeping chips cool: water. However, at this year’s Computex 2025, Noctua showed the progress it’s making with its liquid thermosiphon system, but that won’t be the first to market:…

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Turns out asking AI chatbots for answers in a specific way can be like leaving them with the key to Trippy McHigh’s magic mushroom farm

It’s a known issue right now that Large Language Model-powered AI chatbots do not always deliver factually correct answers to posed questions. In fact, not only do AI chatbots sometimes not deliver factually correct information, but they have a nasty habit of confidently presenting factually incorrect information, with answers to questions that are just fabricated,…

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InWin unveils all-singing, all-dancing ‘trophy-inspired’ case that also looks a little bit like my morning brew

You can always count on InWin to bring its most head-turning A-game to every Computex. To celebrate its 40th birthday this year, the company presented a commemorative blue PC chassis that certainly has my attention—though I don’t think I quite share InWin’s creative vision. The special edition case in question has been dubbed ChronoMancy, and…

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Doug Cockle wasn’t the ‘obvious’ choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was ‘the best at being normal’

It seems hard to conceive now, given we’ve had three games (and some assorted DLC) with Doug Cockle’s dulcet tones behind the deadpan features of Geralt of Rivia, but there was a time where CDPR was struggling to find out what everyone’s favourite witcher would sound like in The Witcher trilogy. The Witcher 3 at…

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‘That’s it, pre-order cancelled’: GTA 6 investigators have managed to find the one slip-up in the second trailer, and it’s pretty illuminating

GTA 6’s second trailer surprised us just as much as its first, but now the initial shock’s worn off, fans are combing through the impressive three-minute trailer and really putting it under a microscope to see if there’s anything out of sorts, and they’ve actually found something. “Light appears before gunshot,” Cat_With_Banana96 says. “Don’t know…

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‘We want to be as aggressive as possible, right?’ says AMD GPU boss of the Nvidia-baiting pricing of the RX 9060 XT, calling it ‘a tremendous value proposition to all our fellow gamers’

I got the chance to sit down at a roundtable discussion with AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of the computing and graphics group, Jack Huynh, not long after he spoke on stage at Computex 2025. I asked him about AMD’s competitive pricing for the RX 9000-series, in particular the newly-announced RX 9060 XT:…

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Overwatch players freak out over supposed Widowmaker butt nerf, proving that Marvel Rivals gooner skins have wound back the clock 10 years

Overwatch 2’s Street Fighter 6 collaboration has been officially announced, and the eight new skins are ready to appear on the in-game shop today, and just on cue, some players are already finding issues with the skins. “They won’t be able to dethrone Marvel Rivals by having a half-assed Cammy skin,” one player says. “Pun…

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