Components: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

This Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Infinity 16G generates white-hot performance, smooth efficiency, and top-notch cooling. If you are looking for a deluxe, frame-furious RTX 5080 graphics card, this is one of the best to buy.

Greg Lui, the CEO of server provider Earthmade Computer, is accused of falsifying export docs to ship $300 million worth of GPUs to China using Malaysia and Singapore as pass-throughs.

At least at the base frequency. I'm sure when these chips boost, they'll get up there too.

New Micron facilities coming online in 2028 won't be enough to ease the RAM shortage, says Sanjay Mehrotra. Over 75% of its 2027 output is already sold out.

While gaming is the headline, the developers want to use it to make any device AI-capable.

Qualcomm's first 2nm process chips are the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, built for high-end video and agentic AI.

Acer's Jason Chen says shortages are largely affecting high-end components.

New test numbers from Hardware Unboxed and Toasty Bros find that in many games, it barely breaks 60fps at 1080p Low.

A trademark lawsuit reveals that a US nanofabrication tool provider named Tera-Print sent a cease-and-desist order to SpaceX and Tesla over using the Terafab name.

The new MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro is its first to use a 2nm process, meaning improved performance and power efficiency.

Terry Liu, a supervisor at US Customs and Border Protection, allegedly swapped Intel Core i7-14700 CPUs for less powerful components and submitted them to Newegg's trade-in program. Was he trying to solve an infamous Intel chip bug?

Apple's updated Mac processors target heavy local AI workloads, with on-device AI muscle, scads of unified memory, and architecture changes built to run cutting-edge models on your desk.

This could be Intel's third price hike of the year, amid rising component costs.

Similar to the Scalable Link Interface (SLI) of yore, separating game rendering and neural rendering leads to a huge performance boost with DLSS 5—for a price.

AMD’s Threadripper Halo Station is poised to compete with Nvidia’s DGX Station tower PCs. Expect exorbitant pricing.

Nvidia confirms that the photorealistic DLSS 5 tech won't be exclusive to the RTX 5000 series, but you should expect a significant performance hit on older cards.

With DLSS 5 AI models, Nvidia claims to significantly boost in-game image quality, but how does it really look? I tried out NBA 2K27 with an RTX 5090 and can confidently say that DLSS 5 shows massive improvement over earlier versions. Check out my in-game screenshots to see for yourself.

This is with unofficial mods, though, so it may suggest the need for per-game optimization.

Apple's adoption of Intel processors for Macs sent big waves through the PC industry—and made the company's move to Apple Silicon, 15 years later, an even bigger deal.

Following several leaks, DLSS 5 is about to launch officially. Amid accusations of the tech creating AI slop, Nvidia also reiterated that the feature is meant to preserve artistic intent.