The Hot Take: Good to see the honor their warranty. Something becoming more rare in these times....
It’s a scary situation when an expensive GPU like the RTX 5090 that’s tamed using a water-cooled solution begins to show cracks in the exact waterblock that’s used to effectively reduce its temperatures. One owner has shown evidence that it took the waterblock less than a month to begin displaying these cracks, but he was lucky that GIGABYTE offered a quick replacement for the AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE version. It took GIGABYTE around two weeks to provide the replacement for the water-cooled RTX 5090, which is a lower turnaround time considering…
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By ckasprzak | TkOut
| September 27, 2026 |
GPU,
Hardware
The Hot Take: Sorry, what????
The WiCi One is available for preorders starting at $1,999.
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The Hot Take: Purtty!
French-language hardware site Hardware & Co has some brilliant die shots of most of Intel's latest processors in a blog entry that was actually posted up back in July but only spotted recently in the broader international hardware community by well-known enthusiast InstLatX64. We're only going to take a look at one of the die shots here, but
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The Hot Take: Interesting, we'll see if Air can catch up with some high wattage CPU's coming from Intel & AMD.
Noctua is teaming up with Forced Physics to explore next-gen air cooling that could bring superior cooling capabilities to conventional PC coolers. Noctua Announces Partnership With Forced Physics to Explore 2000W Air Cooling Technology Noctua's partnership with Forced Physics could be big for the future of desktop CPU coolers. The company has recently announced that it has entered into a long-term research partnership with Forced Physics DCT to investigate its JouleForce micro-channel array cooling for desktop PCs and workstations.…
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The Hot Take: Pushing all to cloud soon?
Microsoft announced it will deprecate the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server role starting with the next Windows Server release. [...]
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The Hot Take: Monopolies doing what monopolies do.
Micron is reportedly pulling the plug on its 2 GB (16Gb) GDDR7 memory chips, ending production and sales of both the 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps variants. According to an X post by UNIKO’s Hardware, the chips — some of which shipped on some GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards — are now designated as “End of Life” on Micron's site. Tom’s Hardware can confirm that the pages for module norms return “No results found.”Micron just began supplying its 2GB GDDR7 to Nvidia earlier this year, with Samsung and SK Hynix being the main GDDR7 suppliers. As a result,…
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The Hot Take: Nice, this has me very interested.
We finally know the name of the first non-Pixel phone that's compatible with GrapheneOS.
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The Hot Take: I'm gonna take a guess because we don't own it, we just license it is why.
More games are taking advantage of the free-to-play model, and Microsoft is building systems designed to deliver ads without disrupting the gaming experience. According to Respawn First, the system would first give players some ad-free playtime, which could either be based on time or in-game progress, such as levels and bosses. Once this expires, the company will then open a window and briefly serve “promoted content.” However, this system will not just show ads out of the blue. Instead, it will work with the game engine so that they will only…
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The Hot Take: Will have to see how this works and if the fidelity is good.
AMD has shown a ray tracing trick that slashes memory and acceleration-structure costs while keeping hundreds of millions of animated triangles moving in real time.
AMD Fellow Holger Gruen demonstrated the technique using a terrain scene containing about 25,000 independently animated plants. At maximum level of detail, the vegetation represents roughly 2.8 billion triangles.
After level-of-detail selection, the system ray-traces about 500 million animated triangles each frame using primary and shadow rays. AMD says the scene runs at more…
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The Hot Take: More and more ASICs coming to market! Nvidia only has so much longer to price gouge with funneling it all to Ai.
South Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions has expanded its neural processing units (NPUs) across four commercial SK Telecom services, with the infrastructure now processing about 14 million real-time requests and more than 4 billion tokens a day.
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