I played 10 of the latest games on a nine-year-old Intel CPU, and it holds up surprisingly well

Can you game on an old CPU? I dusted off my nearly ten-year-old Core i7- 7700K and played Arc Raiders, Forza Horizon 6, and more to find out.

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AMD finally gives FSR 4.1 support to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs, thanks to its latest driver

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Valve now allows you to run SteamOS on your own DIY Steam Machine, with Nvidia GPU support in the works

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iiyama just released its first OLED gaming monitor, with a 280Hz refresh rate

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Even DDR2 isn’t safe from the RAM crisis, as legacy memory prices rocket

The ongoing memory shortage is prompting companies to seek legacy DRAM products, with huge price increases predicted for DDR2.

This motherboard swaps its PCIe 16x graphics slot for a pair of cable connectors

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First 1,000Hz gaming monitor shows terrible results, due to slow IPS panel

Despite having a 1,000Hz refresh rate, this gaming monitor shows slow results, as its IPS panel's pixel transition time can’t meet the required 1ms.

Steam Controller delivery dates slip into 2027, as Valve can’t keep up with demand

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Steam Frame may support hot-swappable batteries, but with a catch

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MSI hopes to make DDR5 RAM more affordable, thanks to HUDIMM memory support

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The best racing games of all time

Here are the best driving games ever, from pure arcade fun and action-packed racing to highly realistic, competitive simulators.

Next-gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs appear in official documentation, powered by Zen 6

AMD confirms its next-gen Threadripper lineup, codenamed Mustang Peak, featuring 2nm Zen 6 cores, a new TR6 socket, and PCIe 6.0 lanes.

Dell’s MacBook Neo competitor ends up costing £899 in UK and €1,149 in Europe

Dell’s XPS 13 Wildcat Lake laptop hits Europe and the UK at a much higher price than in the US, making it a hard sell compared to Apple's MacBook Neo.

Consumer SSD market has “almost disappeared,” claims Silicon Motion, with NAND supply likely to worsen in 2027

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Asus ROG has abandoned gamers in favour of overpriced tat

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