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… The processor appears to be derived from Nvidia's DGX Spark system, which is an extremely powerful £4000 AI-focused mini PC, with rumours suggesting a heterogeneous "big-little" architecture with 10 performance cores and 10 efficiency cores in the full-fat N1X. …
… It's a rare victory lap in hardware history, but it could also be the best way to build or upgrade a gaming PC with the current AI-fuelled price surges for DDR5 RAM. …
… If I turn on my computer after an update again and get the same euphemistic "change browser settings" prompt again, that's it - Linux time. What do you make of the changes, and have you thought about or actually started to move to Linux for gaming or just general PC use? …
… Making the case for an enhanced version of the PlayStation 5 Mon 3rd Jun 2024 Blog DF Direct PS5 Pro DF Weekly FSR 3 frame generation comes to consoles - and we've tested it Proof of concept for a promising new technology Mon 27th May 2024 Blog DF Direct Xbox Series X Xbox Series S PC DF Weekly Gho…
… The motion clarity, the input latency, and even simply moving the mouse around in desktop view, it's a marked upgrade all round over 240, 120 and certainly 60Hz. But to what extent is OLED viable for actual PC use today? …
… It's hard to imagine anything other than standard NVMe SSDs, presumably PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 options, but perhaps Microsoft will want to retain compatibility with Series X/S Game Cards in the new console. …
… In fact, Su reported that some users said that they would rather swap back to hard drives ! than pay over the odds for a new SSD. What's the minimum SSD size you'd consider buying for a gaming PC? …
… Fri 1st May 2026 News PC Hardware Thursday 30th Apr 2026 News ROG Xbox Ally X Finally Gets Auto SR Support, Plus New Docked Mode Features Microsoft's screen-space AI upscaler finally breaches containment. …
… Thankfully, there are some ways to at least dull the pain of upgrading your PC in 2026. …
… Rivals Xbox have publicly committed to a hybrid console that sits halfway within the PC space, so turning off the tap for PC ports also hurts Microsoft's next-generation efforts. …