Tag: hardware

This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo machine has a built-in panic lever, which I would be hammering furiously at every opportunity

This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo…

I have precisely one tattoo, which I paid a trained artist an exorbitant amount of money to ink into…
Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have

Civilization 7 PC performance…

With each new Civilization release, fans of previous versions have taken polarising views of the changes made and it…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the open-world ‘realistic’ RPG, stands out from the crowd by virtue of the fact that…
UK retailer expects more RTX 5090 stock in ‘3 to 16 weeks’, so, err, adjust your diaries accordingly

UK retailer expects more…

If you’re in the UK and currently hunting for an RTX 5090, you’ve probably noticed that stock is… limited,…
Put away your pitchforks, the first report of an RTX 50-series graphics card melting a cable was actually down to an ol’ RTX 4090 under load

Put away your pitchforks,…

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are power hungry beasts, but the first report of a melting power connector…
Spider-Man 2’s PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance

Spider-Man 2’s PC launch…

The newly released PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest of launches, thanks to bugs and…
Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money

Intel will be keen…

You’d be forgiven for thinking that 2024 was a year that Intel would prefer to just forget about. Raptor…
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as ‘a monopolistic crime against the consumer’

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden…

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to the press revealing the existence of an extensive US…
It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product

It looks like there…

Intel won’t launch a new desktop CPU until 2026. That’s the clear implication from comments made this week by…
Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia

Intel nixes its next-gen…

Fair to say Intel’s GPU plans don’t always go to, er, plan. During Intel’s latest earnings call for highly-remunerated…