PC Gaming
Despite the 500 hours of playtime I’ve accrued over the years, I’ve always been a pretty casual Path of Exile player. In PoE, 500 hours is rookie numbers: The infamous sprawl of its passive skill tree and labyrinthine gear crafting mechanics still border on the unfathomable to me. For players who aren’t instinctively horrified by…
Hot on the heels of apparent confirmation of a monstrous 32 GB RTX 5090 GPU from Nvidia comes news that the world’s most valuable company might be plotting a major AI-enhanced upgrade that brings in-game graphics a major step closer to fully AI-rendered graphics. In other words, games that are no longer rendered by a…
Recent reports have surfaced suggesting the new Nvidia App, fresh out of beta, is harming the gaming performance of some PCs. We’ve conducted some of our own testing, with up to a 12% frame rate hit on one PC, and no performance issues on another. But if you do find yourself with an issue, there…
The Covid pandemic was a stark reminder as to just how fragile the global supply chain is, and now we have a new one to worry over. Two weeks after China applied an export restriction to the US on any metals critical to the semiconductor industry, prices for the likes of gallium have shot up…
DLC characters in Tekken 8 have been a hot debate for most players each time an announcement is on the horizon. There have been a lot of mixed messages regarding the first season of DLC fighters since Harada swore that Heihachi was dead before he was resurrected in the first wave, and his tweet stating…
Final Fantasy 14 is no stranger to crossovers. It’s gone all multiverse with Dragon Quest, Yo-kai Watch, GARO, Monster Hunter, Fall Guys, and (naturally) other Final Fantasy games. I think my favourite of the lot are the Nier: Automata raids from Shadowbringers, if only because there’s a scene where a swarm of androids dive-bomb some…
Marvel Rivals is off to a solid start, considering how many live service shooters have failed to hit the mark this year—and it’s aimed to keep that momentum with its first seasonal event starting December 20, dubbed the “Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration”, for which Netease released a trailer earlier today and, hold on, wait a…
Reapplying a fresh layer of thermal paste to a graphics card’s GPU is quite easy but dealing with its thermal pads is another matter altogether. Thermal Grizzly reckons it has the perfect solution, in the form of a thick putty that you can slap onto the VRAM and VRM chips, instead of worrying about what…
This is more in line with existing rumors and expectations than qualifying as earth-shattering news. But an apparent leak on graphics board maker Zotac’s website seems to confirm that Nvidia will soon be releasing an RTX 5090 GPU with a full 32GB of VRAM. The leak (via Videocardz) also confirms the branding of the full…
Noctua needs no introduction when it comes to air coolers with several of the best-reviewed models to its name that pack some of the biggest punches when it comes to air cooling. Amongst its range of the biggest and most powerful coolers in it lineup, the NH-D15 has long been regarded as one the best…