Horror fans will get to see if Alan Wake II lives up to the hype when the game releases later this week. In the meantime, gamers who own an Intel Arc graphics card can download the latest Arc driver, version 31.0.101.4900, for a purportedly substantial performance gain at both 1080p and 1440p resolutions, according to the driver’s release

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Readies A Big FPS Boost For Alan Wake 2 Ahead Of Launch

Cowabunga! Skullcandy is bringing some commemorative audio gear celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of everybody’s favorite sewer reptiles. One is a limited-edition version of the Push TWS (true wireless stereo) earbuds, while the other is the PLYR wireless gaming headset. Both are very green and ready for those long gaming sessions.  

With

Source: Hot Hardware – Skullcandy Celebrates TMNT’s 40th Anniversary With A Pair Earbuds and Headphones

Counter-Strike 2 is the sort of fast-twitch game you’d like to play at a least a couple hundred frames per second, and the more the better. Intel’s Core i9-14900K can already help drive this and much more in Counter-Strike 2, but extreme overclockers Team AU at SXSW Australia were able to push the 14900K to 8GHz and hit 1,300 FPS in Valve’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Core i9-14900K Gaming PC Overclocked To 8GHz Hits Blistering 1,300 FPS In Counter-Strike 2

Remember the days when graphics cards, like any other expansion card, simply took up a single slot? Sure, there’d be some cooling apparatus on them, and occasionally you’d see some ultra-high-end board with an extremely overbuilt cooler that took up two slots, but for years and years, graphics cards were single-slot.

Nowadays, you’re hard-pressed

Source: Hot Hardware – Check Out The First-Ever GeForce RTX 4060 Ti With A Single-Slot Blower Cooler

Though Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, and Black Friday fast approaches, Amazon still has some pretty great deals going on. From accessories to enhance your style and connectedness, to laptops to help you get work done, here are a few great ways to save on tech if you are in the market.

Leading us off, if you are looking for something

Source: Hot Hardware – Gorgeous Fossil Smart Watch Headlines These Great Amazon Tech Deals

Twitch has reversed a previous rule to now allow streamers on its platform to simulcast to any other platform, but it does come with a few caveats. The decision was announced just as the company’s biggest event of the year kicked off in Las Vegas, TwitchCon.

Twitch has been under the gun as of late with some of its decisions and new competition

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Streamers Are Now Allowed To Simulcast On Any Service But There Are Caveats

SpaceX shared phenomenal footage of its latest round of test fires on its massive upper-stage rocket, Starship. The Elon Musk-owned space agency is still waiting to receive clearance from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) for a second test flight of its Super Heavy rocket.

The footage of the test fire was posted to X, also owned by Musk,

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Flames Shoot Out Of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket From An Amazing Vantage Point

The rumor mills continue to spool up with more information coming out about a potential NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super. Whilst it is fun to speculate on potential specs and even the existence of future releases, contradicting information abounds. This time, we’re seeing differing possibilities emerge on the VRAM front. 

Initially, the word

Source: Hot Hardware – Will The GeForce RTX 4080 Super Sport 20GB Of VRAM? Not So Fast

Starting a business and having it be successful is incredibly difficult. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged as much in a recent interview in which he shared some candid remarks about what it was like like being a budding entrepreneur. The most surprising tidbit, however, came when he revealed that if he could take a mulligan, he would not

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA CEO Says He Would Not Have Started NVIDIA If He Had A Do-Over

Back in the old days, it wasn’t uncommon to bestow a drop of blood (or more) inside a gaming PC as a sort of accidental sacrifice—many of those beige towers from yesteryear had sharp edges on their metal panels and it was easy to gash your finger. Fast forward a few decades and Blizzard is giving away a Diablo IV-themed gaming PC that’s intentionally

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Blizzard Is Giving Away A Liquid-Cooled Diablo IV Gaming PC With Real Human Blood

OpenAI has moved its ‘Browsing’ feature out of beta, allowing ChatGPT access to the entire internet up to the current date. The Browsing feature is now available via Microsoft’s Bing search engine to all users of ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise.

The beta for the ‘Browsing’ feature for ChatGPT was rolled back out to Plus users at the end of

Source: Hot Hardware – ChatGPT Granted Access To The Entire Current Internet, What Happens Next?

A major part of Intel’s chip dominance over the last 30 years has been its bleeding-edge process technology. For decades the company was ahead of everyone else in fabrication, and this gave its architectures superior performance simply on the basis of physics. That’s not to discredit the hard work of Intel’s chip engineers, of course, but

Source: Hot Hardware – TSMC Throws Shade At Intel’s 18A Node As Being Inferior To Its 2nm Chip Tech

Samsung just annoucned its next-generation HBM3E “Shinebolt” and GDDR7 memory. While Samsung may have lagged behind rival memory manufacturers SK Hynix and Micron in launching HBM3E, Shinebolt is poised to be the fastest HBM3E for the high performance computing (or HPC) industry. Meanwhile, Samsung is leading the pack on GDDR7, and it’s nearly

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Unveils Shinebolt HBM3E Memory At Nearly 10Gbps And Blistering 32Gbps GDDR7

NASA’s Webb telescope discovered a high-speed jet over Jupiter’s equator. The new finding is giving researchers insight into how the layers of the gas giant’s atmosphere interact.

Jupiter has some very well-known features, like its Great Red Spot which is large enough to engulf Earth. This mammoth planet, which spans 89,000 miles (143,000

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers An Intense High Speed Jet On Jupiter

Bring out your big, powerful GPUs my friends – Alan Wake 2 is coming. It’s been a roller coaster year of PC game releases. Optimized and buggy titles run the gamut of what’s possible in the scope of “readiness”. Games such as Redfall not only proved to be filled with technical issues, but the game itself was lackluster according to many. That’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Alan Wake 2 PC Requirement Specs Are Bone Crushing, How To Prepare Your Rig

The Federal Communications Comission (FCC) has opened up the WiFi 6E 6GHz frequency band to a whole new wave of low-powered devices. The move is designed to improve peer to peer communication speeds with devices such as virtual reality helmets, augmented reality glasses, smart watches, and smartphones to name but a few. The FCC’s decision

Source: Hot Hardware – FCC Expands 6GHz Wi-Fi Band To More Devices And Google Is Stoked, Why This Matters

AMD Threadripper Pro 7000WX and Threadripper 7000 Series Processors: Starting At $1,499 ($9,999 For 7995WX) Two new Threadripper product families arrives featuring AMD’s Zen 4 architecture, with up to 96 cores and 384MB of cache, the Threadripper Pro 7000WX and Threadripper 7000.   More Cores More Cache Higher-Clocks Monstrous Performance…

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Threadripper Pro 7000 Debut: 96-Core Zen 4 CPU Benchmarked

Those in the Android 14 Beta Program might get something to be excited about with the latest QPR1 Beta 2.1. Even though it’s a rather meager 60MB, it supposedly fixes bugs related to biometric scanning, SIM card swapping, and overall system stability.

The stable version of Android 14 may have just dropped along with the newly-minted Pixel

Source: Hot Hardware – Android 14 QPRQ Beta 2.1 Fixes Multiple Annoying Pixel Phone Bugs, How To Install It

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to restore net neutrality. A vote on Thursday kicked off a rulemaking process that will once again bar internet companies from creating paid fast lanes for data or slowing traffic based on type. The last time regulators managed to enact strong net neutrality rules, they were repealed

Source: Hot Hardware – Biden’s FCC Begins Divisive Fight To Restore Neutrality Rules Repealed Under Trump Admin

With Apple’s Lightning cable era coming to a close, some may be left asking if Apple’s $159 Thunderbolt 4 Pro cable is worth all that money. Surprising X-ray CT scans of Apple’s pricey cable and a few very cheap alternatives may help answer that question.

Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro cable supports Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and

Source: Hot Hardware – Is Apple’s USB-C Cable Worth 9? Surprising X-Ray CT Scans Will Help You Decide