Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 actually runs pretty smoothly with Activision’s ‘recommended’ RTX 3060 Ti graphics card, and here are the settings I use to get the best performance from it

I’ve been having a grand old time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 with an RX 9070 XT, but there’ll be plenty of people wanting to run the game on older hardware. So, I decided to dust off my old and much-beloved workhorse, the RTX 3060 Ti, and see how it does in the…

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AMD says the re-release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was ‘like a final gift to our loyal [AM4] users’ and it was CEO Dr. Lisa Su who first came up with the idea

I was genuinely surprised by the re-release of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D earlier this year. A chip I thought long dead was back in 10th Anniversary form, after a resurrection process AMD’s David McAfee described as “very hard, actually” to our Dave at Computex 2026. Now AMD’s Travis Kirsch has spoken to Japanese outlet…

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In a rare instance of good news, Philips has announced the world’s first 36-inch, 260 Hz gaming monitor. So that’s nice

Writing (and reading) about PC hardware news at the moment can be downright depressing. Massive price rises. AI everywhere. Disappearing graphics cards. It’s just a bit much, you know? So come and bask in something deliciously old school with me: the release of a good-looking new product you might be able to buy without selling…

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Graphics card wholesale prices are on the rise once again in China, so it’s time to brace yourself for even more GPU pricing pain

According to hardware outlet ChannelGate, the wholesale spot prices of several RTX 50-series graphics cards are on the rise once again in China, which is an ominous indicator for consumer pricing worldwide. The 16 GB RTX 5080 is said to have increased by around 2000 CNY, which equates to around $300, while the RTX 5070…

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