Tag: hardware

AMD’s new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of ’em—but don’t worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine

AMD’s new AM6 socket…

More pins equals more performance, right? If so, get ready for AMD’s next-gen AM6 CPU socket. According to a…
Need to clone your boot drive for your next PC upgrade? I’ve discovered my new favorite tool

Need to clone your…

Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: building a new gaming PC for the…
Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that ‘rearchitects the GPU from first principles’ but with few details in the startup word-salad

Ex-Intel and AMD graphics…

These days, it seems like there’s a new tech startup company appearing every day, promising to revolutionise whatever market…
AMD rolls out Radeon RX 9060 non-XT with fewer cores, lower clocks and 8 GB of slower VRAM but you probably can’t buy it direct

AMD rolls out Radeon…

If your first thought upon considering AMD’s existing entry-level RDNA 4-based gaming GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8…
AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline

AMD said it would…

If the sales of Nvidia’s $2,000+ RTX 5090 have proved one thing, it’s that there are plenty of PC…
Graphics card prices are totally ridiculous and it’s creating a barrier to entry that makes me fear for the future of PC gaming

Graphics card prices are…

In some ways, it’s never been a better time to be a PC gamer. Beyond the glut of games…
Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

Split spacebars are surely…

Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware (Image credit: Future) When I’m not working for the split spacebar tourism board, I’m…
Major copper foil supplier raises prices by 12%, potentially ushering in a fresh wave of spikey prices for PCBs and plenty of PC components besides

Major copper foil supplier…

If, like me, you’ve been watching the memory supply crisis escalate from between your fingers, then I don’t need…
Microsoft removes its ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign and is slowly purging all mention of it

Microsoft removes its ‘This…

Near the latter half of 2024, Microsoft boldly claimed nearly anything could be an Xbox. Your mobile phone, your…
Microsoft teams up with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to share ‘our dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows’

Microsoft teams up with…

Microsoft has just shared an update to DirectX, labelling it “the biggest wave of new tooling features in DirectX’s…