AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly arriving late, delayed to CES 2027 — next-gen chips rocked by industry turmoil

AMD and Intel are both preparing next-gen desktop CPUs with major architectural improvements that now seem to be delayed. This includes Nova Lake, which has been confirmed for a 2026 year-end release time and again, and Ze…

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Intel Bartlett Lake-S CPUs reportedly wield 12 blazing P-cores and 5.8 GHz boost — turbocharged chips that will not make it to retail

Intel’s Core 200E-series ‘Bartlett Lake’ CPUs to offer up to 12 cores at a 125W TDP, according to a leak.

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Hands-on with Cooler Master’s Cosmos Alpha full-tower chassis – sliding, configurable interior makes for lots of possibilities

The Cosmos Alpha is an excellent update over the previous 2022-era model. The large internal spaces offer tons of configuration possibilities, all inside a modern, good-looking, premium full-tower chassis.
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AI craze leaves only one Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU at MSRP — RTX 5060 Ti 8GB makes the final stand, as even the RTX 5050 falls

The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8G Ventus 2X OC Plus and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 Ti WindForce 8G are the only Blackwell-based graphics cards still at their MSRPs.
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The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we’re testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out

Here’s how we’re updating our GPU Hierarchy and Bench database for 2026, with a breakdown of our setup, the current state of play, and our test suite, which includes many new games—but no upscaling or framegen.
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Microsoft’s Project Silica write-once storage could store terabytes of data for over 10,000 years — company explores two physical glass storage methods, so the glass-clad future of storage isn’t coming anytime soon

Microsoft’s Project Silica now explores two different methods to store data on glass medium, but neither is close enough for commercialization.
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Save $379.99 on this Asus X870E motherboard and 32GB of DDR5 RAM — Newegg combo deal is cheaper than buying the memory separately

Newegg’s Asus X870E motherboard and 32GB DDR5-6400 RAM bundle is only $449.89, saving you $379.99

Corsair’s new “Vault” series FRAME 4000D cases have color-shifting paintjobs — Priced at $140, these limited-edition towers also feature upgraded front panel I/O

The FRAME 4000D from Corsair was already a great case and if you couldn’t justify the $400 LCD version, the company has another looker on the market now. Dubbed the “Vault” series, these new limited-edition FRAME 4000D tow…

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AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 10000 desktop CPUs rumored to come in seven different configs — Starting from 6 cores, flagship “Olympic Ridge” silicon may feature up to 24 cores

The next desktop chips from AMD are said to refresh the core configs of the Ryzen brand in a major way. Finally stepping away from 8-core CCDs, “Ryzen 10000” is said to bring 12-core chiplets that should enable a new 24-co…

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Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers — German website finds a workaround (Update)

Asus and Acer bring German websites down, leaving users without support or downloads due to the companies’ recent spat with Nokia over the HEVC codec.
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