RAM and storage is ridiculously expensive right now because of *drumroll* AI, of course, and there’s little reason to think prices will drop any time soon

We can’t seem to get a moment’s respite in the PC gaming industry, can we? We spent the better part of this year lamenting ridiculously high GPU prices, and as soon as said prices finally start dropping, memory and storage prices start climbing. You might have noticed this worrying trend if you’ve been looking for…

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The OneXFly Apex has an optional external liquid cooling tower to help keep things chill, which kinda defeats the point of a handheld gaming PC if you ask me

When is a gaming handheld not a gaming handheld? Well, I’d argue it’s when you need to strap a bunch of external devices to it in order to get the most out of it, which is exactly what’s happened to the Strix Halo-powered OneXPlayer OneXFly Apex. It’s a seriously impressive-looking device on paper, with what…

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A UK retailer has honoured a redditor’s £20 Fractal Design PC case purchase: ‘You made it go viral. So we did what we believe is right—we owned it.’

With seas of stock to maintain, plus piles of product pages to go along with every item, listing mistakes happen. Should an eagle-eyed shopper scoop a downright unreasonably priced bit of kit, it’s often a toss up as to whether the supplier will either cancel the order, or quietly honour the few orders that get…

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Nvidia’s new six-trillion transistor Vera Rubin ‘superchip’ for AI makes the 92-billion transistor RTX 5090 gaming GPU look positively puny

Nvidia’s ever-optimistic CEO, Jensen Huang, has revealed more details of the company’s next-gen AI platform at the same GTC event where the company’s quantum computing plans were outlined. He calls it the Vera Rubin “superchip” and claims it contains no fewer than six trillion transistors. Yup, six trillion. In very simple terms, that means the…

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