These are the best upgrades we bought in 2025

It's been a tough year for PC upgrades, yet tech aficionados will always find something to sate their desires. Here's what brought us joy in 2025.

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AMD and Nvidia GPU prices will rise at start of 2026, rumours claim

As GPU manufacturers enter their next financial quarter, the price of GeForce and Radeon cards are expected to rise.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 breaks cover in multiple benchmark leaks

Preliminary performance measurements for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 turn up, but neither test pushes this rumoured CPU's extra 3D V-Cache hard.

Maingear says BYO RAM in the face of memory shortages, and I hope other companies are taking notice

You'll need to send your RAM to Maingear for testing with the system you purchase, but this scheme seems like a smart sidestep.

Samsung just unveiled a bunch of world-first gaming monitors, offering 6K resolution, glasses-free 3D, and 1,080Hz refresh rates

There's plenty of exciting Odyssey gaming monitors to look forward to from Samsung, debuting at CES 2026.

New AMD EXPO revision possibly hints at proper CUDIMM RAM support for AM5, but there’s a catch

AMD may be about to bring the full benefits to CUDIMM RAM to its AM5 platform, but unlocking them may require a brand-new chipset.

LG just unveiled a new OLED design that should remedy one of the biggest problems with previous panels

A new subpixel structure could see the end of text fringing on LG OLEDs, but questions remain about what this means for brightness levels.

Nvidia just published a driver hotfix that squashes some colourful bugs on your GeForce GPU

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 591.67 takes aim at colour banding on Nvidia GPUs, among a few other fixes.

Windows 11 driver hack boosts NVMe SSD performance by up to 85%

Windows Server 2025 now features a new NVMe driver, and users are already reaping performance benefits in Windows 11 through registry edits.

Gigabyte curiously forgoes thermal gel from new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards

New versions of some Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5050 strangely don't feature the brand's thermal gel with no explanation as to why.

DDR5 RAM scammers con unfortunate gamer with dressed up DDR4

An Amazon Warehouse sale went awry after the purchaser received Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM dressed in DDR5 heat spreaders.

Every Nvidia GeForce Now user faces a monthly playtime cap in 2026

Free and premium subscribers alike will now have to contend with 100 hour monthly caps on Nvidia GeForce Now.

Steam Deck LCD production ends, raising the starting price of Valve’s handheld in the process

Once Steam Deck LCD stock runs out, the price floor for Valve's handheld will rise as the more-expensive OLED model becomes the default.

You can now play GTA Vice City directly from your browser, and it runs smoothly

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City now runs in a web browser thanks to DOS Zone, with full game access available if you can prove ownership.

MSI Cubi Z AI 8M review: a mini PC with a mighty CPU

With an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS under the hood, this tiny PC has plenty of processing power, and it can even handle some gaming.

Lenovo could launch a Legion Go 2 SteamOS handheld powered by AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme

Lenovo reportedly plans another SteamOS Legion Go 2 for CES 2026, but this time powered by the faster AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip.

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