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AMD Bringing Back Ryzen 7 5800X3D to Save the World from DDR5 You read that headline correctly. AMD is reportedly bringing back the former #1 gaming CPU of all time, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Is this the story of the year? The one CPU…

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MSI MAG 272UP X24, QD-OLED On A Budget MSI have made QD-OLED somewhat affordable with their MAG 272UP X24 QD-OLED display. It is capable of 4K at 240Hz even though MSI went with DP 1.4 instead of DP 2.1 but…

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Orico K20 Mini 2TB, Portable SSDs Aren’t Quite As Bad As Internals 2026 is a strange time, and a perfect example of that is Orico's K20 Mini 2TB Magnetic Portable SSD which is less expensive than an internal SSD at the moment. In a…

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HEVC Licensing, Here’s Exhaustive Video Codec Legal Details You may recall hardware support for HEVC and H.265 recently disappearing from HP and Dell laptops which used iGPUs. They didn't provide a reason why some models lost this ability while…

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ENERMAX Platimax II 1200DF PSU, More Compact Than It’s Rather Long Name It seems NikKTech have been posting a lot of PSU reviews lately, and the majority of them are from brands that aren't familiar. If you are interested in trying out new PSUs,…

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NuPhy Node 100, A White Collar High Profile Wireless Keyboard The popularity of TKL and smaller keyboards are great for the gamer, but what if you want a fancy mechanical keyboard for work? The amount of RGB-itis that is acceptable on your…

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Stealing Your Data Via TotalRecall Reloaded Is A Feature, Not A Bug? Microsoft did score some points by ensuring their security nightmare disguised as a convenient way to recall what you were looking at on your PC in the past is now disabled by…

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Nostalgia For The Nostalgia God! A Vintage Collection Of 28 Warhammer and W40K Games If you are a fan of Warhammer and 40K and have been playing the games based in those worlds for decades, you might still have a collection of old CD-ROMs and DVDs…

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Sony Bravia TVs Want You To Believe Less Is More If you use a Sony Bravia built in 2023 or later and make use of an antenna, a set-top box or even just like the TV Guide you are going to…

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Quelle Surprise, Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out A privacy search engine called webXray conducted an audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic, specifically checking for the presence of ad cookies that were dropped onto machines which had already…

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Is Anyone Buying DDR5 at These Prices Right Now? This is not going to be some supercilious post about rising costs that assumes the reader hasn't looked at Newegg or Amazon prices on DDR5 lately, but it IS a post about…

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GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D WOOD Gigabyte has released a unique X870E board they call the AERO X3D WOOD. That name could lead you to worry this presages a creative way to avoid the PCB shortages we are…

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Bad News If You Downloaded HWMonitor OR CPU-Z Late Last Week If you downloaded anything from CPUID on April 9th or 10th, programs like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, and are seeing some odd behaviour on your system we have some bad news. For a…

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Podcast #863 – Ryzen 9950X3D2 Pricing, Raptor Lake Still Part of Intel Plan, Compress Your VRAM, Steam rates FPS + MORE! Now Steam will rate your system for the expected FPS on a title, nice?! Raptor Lake (13th / 14th Gen) still a big part of the Intel strategy, Ryzen 9950X3D pricing, and…

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AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Pricing and Availability Our short wait is over, as AMD today announced pricing and availability of the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. Are you sitting down? As AMD states: > The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2…

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Pillars of Eternity Gets A 10th Anniversary Update? You will likely remember Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire more than the original Pillars of Eternity which came out a decade ago; assuming you played the second one instead of ignoring…

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Hot Full Moon Pics! Artemis II Reveals Her Fully Exposed Rear End Artemis II and its crew have been further from Earth than any human before, and also got to enjoy a 40 minute break from social media which, as of yet, cannot reach…

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Raptor Lake Still Big Part of Intel’s Plan in 2026 – DDR4 Options Available If you are frustrated with the cost of DDR5, one of the alternatives - other than socket AM4 from AMD - is to stick with the older, but still readily available, Intel…

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Avertissement Ubisoft! Stop Killing Les Games! The idea of always online games upsets the majority of gamers, well at least those old enough to remember when you could play single player games without having any internet. Those of…

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TurboQuant May Be An Enthusiast’s New Best Friend Wouldn't it be nice to see memory prices fall, supply to once again exist and also see memory manufacturers hoisted by their own petard because of their greed? That is assuming you…

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Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges There were more than a few developers flabbergasted to find out Copilot had injected advertisements into the descriptions of GitHub pull requests they made recently. Microsoft was injecting ads for Raycast,…

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AOC Agon Pro AG346UCD, Ultrawide OLED At 175Hz If you are shopping for a QD-OLED with a 3440×1440 resolution that is at least 34" in size, you might want to check out AOC's Agon Pro AG346UCD. It can hit a…

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Headphones; Wired, Wireless Or Banana? You may have noticed more podcasters following our long standing tradition of at least two of us using wired headsets on the PC Perspective Podcast. We do it because we are cranky…

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Apple’s Latest macOS Tahoe 26.4 Update Hopes To Protect Against ClickFix There is a new undocumented feature in macOS Tahoe 26.4 which hopes to reduce the number of Apple users infecting themselves via a problem called ClickFix. That is a nice way…

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Podcast #861 – Intel Core Ultra Plus Review, Big Battlemage, ARM Makes Chips, US Router Ban, Q Day coming, and Jensen says…, plus MORE! Jensen says DLSS 5 is not AI Slop and you're wrong. Intel has some value in the CPU space again! Plus Big Battlemage did come, but you won't get one, and ARM…

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Surprise! AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Happy Friday from AMD, with the announcement of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. While it may sound a bit like a Star Wars droid it is instead a interesting new chip…

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More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming While Microsoft slowly removes things that no one asked for in an attempt to stem the disgust being expressed by their users, gaming on Linux just keeps getting better. If you have…

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FCC Flushes TP-Link And All Other Foreign Made Consumer Routers The FCC has just banned the import of any and all foreign made consumer routers, perhaps a little excessive but hard to completely disagree with. Foreign made routers provide about 60% of…

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First Look – Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Processor The subtitle above sums up this launch. No, the Core Ultra 200S Plus processors are not going to dethrone AMD's X3D on any 1080p gaming charts, but there have been enough performance…

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Intel’s Core Ultra Plus Actually Adds Intel have refreshed Arrow Lake-S with the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processors. They remain completely compatible with the motherboards and memory used by the original…

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