Introduction The ASRock Arc B580 Steel Legend is the company’s premium custom design take on Intel’s newest performance segment GPU, the B580 Battlemage. The Steel Legend brand represents a balance of rugged industrial build quality, and cost. In ASRock’s stack of graphics cards and motherboards, it’s positioned a notch below the Phantom Gaming series, but… Read more
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Sparkle Arc B580 Titan OC Review
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Introduction We have with us the Sparkle Arc B580 Titan OC graphics card, powered by the new B580 Battlemage GPU that’s been making waves since its reveal earlier this month. Sparkle is a fairly new entrant to the Intel Arc graphics card ecosystem, but has been around for decades, notably as a former NVIDIA GeForce… Read more
read more...Nvidia teases RTX 50 Blackwell Gaming GPUs for launch next month — The Witcher IV’s first cinematic trailer likely leveraged the upcoming RTX 5090
By: Tom's Hardware
With less than one month before CES 2025, Nvidia has dropped the first teaser for its upcoming RTX 50 family of GPUs – employing the Blackwell architecture. According to rumors, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage and drop the curtains on the next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs on January… Read more
read more...ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite Review: Slimmed down Taichi for the mid-range
By: Tom's Hardware
Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Z890 Taichi Lite, priced at $399.99, is a solid ‘mid-range’ option in today’s high-priced motherboard realm. It offers dual LAN ports, high-quality audio, six M.2 sockets, and a neutral, RGB-free design. While not the most budget-friendly choice, it’s worth considering, especially if you have lots of M.2 SSDs. Pros + High-quality… Read more
read more...The UnitedHealthcare shooter got exactly what he wanted
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Luigi Mangione has been inescapable, hasn’t he? His face is all over my social media feeds. Outlet after outlet — some mainstream, some otherwise — have published stories about the video games he liked, his Reddit comments, his Goodreads page, his political ideology, his back pain. Mangione is not merely an accused murderer; he is a… Read more
read more...Microsoft kills off Skype credits and phone numbers in favor of subscriptions
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Microsoft has quietly ended the sale of new credits and phone number features for Skype this week. Skype Credit and Skype Number are both being discontinued in favor of Microsoft pushing subscriptions instead. Skype Credit was a pay-as-you-go plan for making calls both locally and internationally, and Skype Number allowed you to have a phone… Read more
read more...Intel executives hint at potential manufacturing spinoff
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After the surprise ousting of former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger last week, the chip maker is facing an uncertain future that could involve splitting the company up. The temporary co-CEOs of Intel both appeared at Barclays investment banking conference on Thursday, hinting at a potential manufacturing spinoff. Intel’s manufacturing business finances and operations are already… Read more
read more...AMD’s fastest quad-core CPU gets tested — EPYC 4124P plays games at well over 60 FPS
By: Tom's Hardware
(Image credit: YouTube – RandomGamingInHD) It is easy to forget that quad-core CPUs still exist, but this core-count configuration is still the go-to config Intel and AMD use for their entry-level solutions. RandomGaminginHD on YouTube benchmarked AMD’s latest entry-level server processor, the AM5-based EPYC 4124P, with an RTX 4060 and an RTX 4070 Super, providing… Read more
read more...Intel executive says spinning off manufacturing unit is an ‘open question’
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(Image credit: Intel) While Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s interim co-CEO, believes that spinning off the Intel Foundry division into a completely separate entity is not a wise idea, she notes that the fate of Intel manufacturing will be decided by ‘someone,’ likely either in reference to the Intel board or a future CEO. David Zinsner,… Read more
read more...Okami is getting a sequel
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Okami is getting a sequel / It’s still very early, but Kamiya is returning to direct. By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Dec 13, 2024, 3:53 AM UTC Share this story Capcom had quite the… Read more
read more...Split Fiction is the next co-op game from Hazelight Studios
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Josef Fares is back and so is his penchant for cursing. The director of Hazelight Studios has returned to The Game Awards to debut his next game: Split Fiction. Split Fiction is a game that feels very much in Hazelight’s wheelhouse. Like It Takes Two and A Way Out before it, Split Fiction is a… Read more
read more...FromSoftware debuts a new Elden Ring game
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FromSoftware, the studio that just this month said it was “not really considering developments such as an Elden Ring 2,” has revealed a game that looks a lot like it could be Elden Ring 2. Elden Ring Nightreign is the next entry in the Elden Ring series. The trailer, debuting during this year’s The Game… Read more
read more...Here’s your very first look at The Witcher 4
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Skip to main content Here’s your very first look at The Witcher 4 / This surprise Witcher 4 teaser at The Game Awards was pre-rendered ‘on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU.’ By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing… Read more
read more...Elon Musk is mad at the SEC again
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing “numerous counts” against Elon Musk, according to a letter from his lawyer that Musk posted to X. It has also “reopened an investigation into Neuralink.” The letter is short on specifics — such as what the charges may be, and how many Musk companies are affected. Instead, Musk’s lawyer,… Read more
read more...Nvidia will host its first full LAN party in over a decade, and you’re invited
By: The Verge
It’s been 13 years since Nvidia hosted its last LAN party, inviting hundreds of people to physically haul their gaming PCs onto a decommissioned aircraft carrier and jack them in for networked gaming bliss. Now, the GeForce LAN is finally coming back — and you’re theoretically invited, should you manage to reserve one of the… Read more
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