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Hardware and Technologies April 16, 2026, 10:02 AM
MSI has unveiled over a dozen refreshed gaming laptops across its Raider, Stealth, Titan, Crosshair, and Cyborg series. The key change is under the hood — eight flagship models now feature the new Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. -
Hardware and Technologies April 15, 2026, 06:29 PM
Over the past ten years, Intel has seen it all — the unquestioned reign of quad-cores, the painful 14nm stagnation, and a radical architectural paradigm shift. But just how big is the real-world gaming difference? The folks at Hardware Unboxed put this question to bed once and for all by testing the flagships from the last ten generations. -
Hardware and Technologies April 15, 2026, 11:53 AM
RAM prices are climbing again, and some gamers are seriously eyeing older hardware. One enthusiast put together a PC with a 2014 CPU and a 2019 GPU to see if this old-school combo could handle modern games. -
Integrated Graphics You Can Actually Game On? Core Ultra 250K Plus Beats Steam Deck and Runs CS2 at 1080p
Hardware and Technologies April 14, 2026, 08:20 PM
Usually, nobody takes desktop processor integrated graphics seriously — at best, it's for office work or diagnostics. The new Intel Core Ultra 250K Plus shatters that stereotype: its integrated graphics chip with four Xe cores outperforms the Steam Deck and lets you play modern titles at 1080p. -
Hardware and Technologies April 14, 2026, 06:18 PM
An updated roadmap for Intel’s Nova Lake desktop processors has leaked online, and based on early info, the company is seriously targeting the budget gaming PC niche without discrete graphics. Insider Jaykihn reports that an unusual desktop APU camp with 12-core Xe3P graphics is in the works. -
Hardware and Technologies April 13, 2026, 05:48 PM
Intel isn't in a rush to officially unveil Nova Lake-S, but documents meant for partners have already hit the web. According to the latest leak, the desktop series will not only pack a record core count for the mainstream segment, but also support DDR5-8000 without overclocking, plus dual-die configurations with a 175W TDP. -
Hardware and Technologies April 9, 2026, 05:04 PM
Pearl Abyss has added Intel Arc GPU support to Crimson Desert — after previously telling players to ask for refunds. Arc B580 owners have already gotten the game running, but they’re dealing with glitchy faces, landscape artifacts, and crashes whenever they turn on AMD FSR. -
Hardware and Technologies April 9, 2026, 11:30 AM
A 2014 CPU, a 2017 GPU, bought on eBay for £45 as a "for parts or not working" lot. After cleaning off corrosion and messing around with the RAM, the system fired up and delivered a steady 60 fps in GTA V, nearly 240 fps in CS2, and even managed to run Cyberpunk 2077. -
Hardware and Technologies April 8, 2026, 11:46 AM
Rising component prices are making gamers take a second look at older builds. A YouTube enthusiast put together a budget gaming PC and tested it on the latest titles — including Crimson Desert. The results weren't exactly what you'd expect. -
Hardware and Technologies April 7, 2026, 07:24 PM
Intel unexpectedly joined Elon Musk’s ambitious chip project called Terafab. Together with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla, the chipmaker promised to rethink silicon manufacturing technology to hit a mind-blowing 1 TW of compute power per year. That said, no concrete details just yet. -
You Don’t Need a New Socket: Intel Officially Extends Raptor Lake’s Life Thanks to DDR5 Price Madness
Hardware and Technologies April 7, 2026, 10:34 AM
Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake chips launched back in 2022 and 2023 — practically veterans by industry standards. But not only is Intel not discontinuing them, the company promises they’re “not going anywhere.” The reason isn’t some undying love for old hardware, but RAM prices: DDR5 has gotten so expensive that building a PC around it just doesn’t make financial sense anymore. -
Intel vs. NVIDIA: who compresses textures better with a neural network? Intel hits 18x and 0.194 nanoseconds per pixel
Hardware and Technologies April 6, 2026, 02:27 PM
Game textures could become 18 times lighter without waiting for a new GPU generation. Intel showed a working neural net that compresses texture sets with virtually no visible loss — at the cost of just 5–7% of quality. -
Hardware and Technologies April 3, 2026, 12:41 PM
Intel's home PC processors could get a third more expensive over the course of 2026. The reason isn't a raw material shortage or logistics — it's that the company has chosen to cash in on artificial intelligence, pushing gamers and regular buyers to the back burner. The first signs are already here: the new Arrow Lake Refresh chips hit the market with prices above the official MSRP. -
Hardware and Technologies April 2, 2026, 07:40 PM
Intel promised a breakthrough in integrated graphics, but when the Arc B390 went head-to-head with the mobile GeForce RTX 5060 for the first time, it turned out that NVIDIA’s discrete GPU is 61% faster — even in a power-sipping mode. -
Hardware and Technologies April 2, 2026, 10:37 AM
Valve released its fresh Steam hardware and software survey for March 2026. The data shows an unexpected turnaround: Linux just shot past macOS, while the once-growing popularity of 32GB of RAM suddenly took a nosedive. -
Hardware and Technologies April 1, 2026, 07:14 PM
Intel is prepping Core 300 processors that throw the usual lineup logic out the window. The Wildcat Lake family includes a spot for Core 7 with a 15W TDP, just two performance cores, and no “Ultra” badge in sight. -
«We Have a Plan, And It’s Better Than Ever»: Intel Announces Timeline For Reclaiming The Best Gaming CPU Title
Hardware and Technologies April 1, 2026, 12:42 PM
Intel is no longer denying the obvious: in the gaming segment, the company is losing to AMD and is in a catch-up position. For the first time in a long while, a corporate executive has publicly acknowledged that gamers are flocking to the competitor in droves, calling it «a pit we have to climb out of.» But the main point isn’t this admission—it’s the promise: Intel has a plan to once again create the world’s fastest gaming processor. -
Hardware and Technologies March 31, 2026, 06:06 PM
When unveiling its Core Ultra 300 (Panther Lake) mobile processors with the new Xe3 graphics architecture, Intel promised improvements, but real-world laptop tests are already set to disappoint some buyers. The integrated graphics in standard next-gen models offer no gaming performance gains over their predecessors, while the higher-end X-series chips with Arc B390 are indeed fast, but they’re not available in every device. -
In 2026, a 10-year-old Core i7 turned out to be just 25% slower than a top-tier AMD. Is that a fail or a win?
Hardware and Technologies March 31, 2026, 10:04 AM
YouTuber Tech YES City compared the Core i7-6850K (Broadwell-E, 2016) with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with an RTX 5060 Ti. At 1440p, the average FPS gap across three games was 25%. Meanwhile, some X99 motherboards refused to boot with the new graphics card. -
Hardware and Technologies March 30, 2026, 01:11 PM
The launch of Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh processors wasn’t just marked by the arrival of long-awaited new chips, but also by a swift price revision from retailers. The manufacturer’s suggested pricing was left in the dust practically the moment sales kicked off.
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