Radeon RX 9070 Flashed With XT BIOS Scores A 25% Performance Boost

Radeon RX 9070 Flashed With XT BIOS Scores A 25% Performance Boost
A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with “a mix of ray-tracing-settings enabled”, gains were limited to just 8-12% over the stock RX 9070. These gains are still quite impressive,

M4 Mac Mini And MacBook Air Blowout, Great Prices And More Apple Deals

M4 Mac Mini And MacBook Air Blowout, Great Prices And More Apple Deals
Apple’s transition to its own in-house designed silicon based on Arm is bearing fruit (excuse the pun) these days. Now several years into the pivot away from using Intel’s x86 chips, Apple’s latest generation Mac mini and MacBook systems are impressive pieces of hardware. They’re also frequently on sale, as is the case right now as we head

Latest Report Shows The PC Gaming Hardware Market Is Exploding Again

Latest Report Shows The PC Gaming Hardware Market Is Exploding Again
The market for PC gaming hardware, including systems and accessories, is projected to grow by 35% in 2025 by Jon Peddie Research. This data is considered “conservative in relation to total PC hardware expenditure”, and is attributed by the firm to the forced migration to Windows 1, due to Windows 10’s pending End of Life in October. Another

Xbox Prices Are Going Up Again But You Can Score Game Consoles For Less Right Now

Xbox Prices Are Going Up Again But You Can Score Game Consoles For Less Right Now
Microsoft is initiating a second price hike on its existing series of Xbox consoles sold in the US, raising prices of all Xbox Series S|X models starting on October 3rd, 2025. For the Xbox Series S 512GB, the price is increasing from $379.99 to $399.99, a $100 total increase from its launch MSRP of $299.99. Similarly, the Series S 1TB is also

Apple Reportedly Booked Majority Of TSMC’s 2nm Chip Capacity To Get A Head Start

Apple Reportedly Booked Majority Of TSMC's 2nm Chip Capacity To Get A Head Start
If you’re looking to have a cutting-edge chip created in late 2025 or early 2026, you’re probably looking at TSMC, because the only other company operating a fab at a similar node is Intel, and Team Blue canceled acceptance of external orders for 18A earlier this year. Only, you’re probably not getting in at TSMC, either, because as it turns

Lenovo Comments On Intense Legion 2 Demand And Status After Cancelling Preorders

Lenovo Comments On Intense Legion 2 Demand And Status After Cancelling Preorders
Lenovo has issued another statement about its upcoming Legion Go 2 handheld, and this time it has nothing to do with the backlash over sticker shock. Not directly, anyway—instead, the general messaging is that it was caught off guard by a flurry of preorders, and rather than make customers wait indefinitely while holding onto their money,

iPhone 17 Air & Galaxy S25 Edge Specs Comparison: Which Is The Thin Phone For You?

iPhone 17 Air & Galaxy S25 Edge Specs Comparison: Which Is The Thin Phone For You?
Two of the biggest smartphone manufacturers both released ultra-thin devices recently, Apple with the iPhone Air and Samsung with the Galaxy S25 Edge. Despite having super-svelte designs, however, both devices still manage to pack some flagship specs, which gives potential buyers a lot to think about when making a purchasing decision. Here’s

Google Supercharges Chrome With Integrated Gemini AI Features In Huge Expansion

Google Supercharges Chrome With Integrated Gemini AI Features In Huge Expansion
Another week, another AI integration—now, market-leading browser Google Chrome is finally on the update list and facing a full suite of new Gemini AI features to be added in the near future. Over the past few days, Google has been detailing the new AI-powered features its bringing to Google Chrome and all of the ways it looks to enhance the

ASRock Calls Dibs On AMD’s New Radeon RX 7700 With First Model

ASRock Calls Dibs On AMD's New Radeon RX 7700 With First Model
AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the first GPU in the family and it seems to be configured to operate at AMD’s reference specifications, though

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Looks Elite In Benchmark Leak Ahead Of Launch

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Looks Elite In Benchmark Leak Ahead Of Launch
Early benchmarks have revealed how powerful the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 might actually be. While these are early leaks, the performance consistency brings promises of single-core scores that go head-to-head with Apple’s A19 Pro SoC and trounces it in multi-core. After years of playing catch up and “close, but no cigar,”

Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 GPU Leak Hints At Inbound Arc B770 With 16GB

Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 GPU Leak Hints At Inbound Arc B770 With 16GB
Intel’s Arc B770 is, so far, a story of potential greatness that ultimately ends up in a blank page. We’ll spoil the story for you: today’s leak is yet another data point proving that the GPU definitely exists, but we’ve still heard nothing from Intel about whether it will actually release in any form whatsoever, and yesterday’s news of an

FTC Lawsuit Slams Ticketmaster Alleging It Bilked Consumers For Billions Of Dollars

FTC Lawsuit Slams Ticketmaster Alleging It Bilked Consumers For Billions Of Dollars
Tired of high ticket prices with exorbitant fees adding to the cost? So is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which alleges in a lawsuit filed with seven states that Ticketmaster and its parent firm Live Nation essentially colluded with brokers by turning a blind eye to illegal harvesting of hordes of tickets, which were then resold at a

NASA’s Hubble Captures Carnage Of A White Dwarf Devouring A Pluto-Sized Object

NASA's Hubble Captures Carnage Of A White Dwarf Devouring A Pluto-Sized Object
Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, revealed a white dwarf, the stellar corpse of a Sun-like star, feasting on a planetary fragment torn from its own system’s

Anker Recalls Half A Million Power Banks For Threat Of Catching Fire And Exploding

Anker Recalls Half A Million Power Banks For Threat Of Catching Fire And Exploding
Anker is issuing another recall over potentially defective power banks following dozens of reports of incidents involving fires and explosions. Unlike the last recall, which affected around 1.1 million Anker PowerCore 1000 power banks, this new one includes multiple different models. It’s a familiar story, in that the culprit is the lithium-ion

AMD Expresses Confidence In AI & CPU Roadmap In Response To Intel-NVIDIA Deal

AMD Expresses Confidence In AI & CPU Roadmap In Response To Intel-NVIDIA Deal
Shares of AMD slid following the announcement that Intel and NVIDIA are teaming up to co-develop several generations of datacenter and PC products. The arrangement, which also includes a $5 billion investment by NVIDIA into Intel common stock, prompted speculation and worry (by some) over AMD’s future, and that undoubtedly led to its stock

New V4 Apollo A6000 Is The Most Powerful 68K Amiga Ever And It Sold Out Immediately

New V4 Apollo A6000 Is The Most Powerful 68K Amiga Ever And It Sold Out Immediately
The Apollo Team behind the Vampire V4 just launched preorders for a new, all-in-one modern Amiga, dubbed the Apollo V4 A6000, which is built atop the Apollo V4 platform.  The V4 platform, like other standalone boards and Apollo accelerators, offers what the team calls a 68080 processor with AMMX support, which is a 100% code compatible evolution

An Apple iPhone 17 Camera Glitch Is Wrecking Photos, Fix Inbound

An Apple iPhone 17 Camera Glitch Is Wrecking Photos, Fix Inbound
It’s iPhone season and Apple has delivered some nice upgrades to its entire lineup of phones, alongside iOS 26, while adding a new device to the family with the thinner and lighter iPhone Air. As expected, the bevy of upgrades include a new set of improved cameras across the board, but one early reviewer has spotted a glitch while taking photos,

Borderlands 4 Dev Says Fixing Performance And Improving Stability Is A Top Priority

Borderlands 4 Dev Says Fixing Performance And Improving Stability Is A Top Priority
Yesterday, the official Borderlands X account finally spoke up about the performance issues that gamers have been reporting on console and PC since Borderlands 4 launched, taking a much calmer approach than Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. Pitchford was making his own headlines, thanks to how angrily he was replying to users posting about the

Intel Responds To Questions On Future Of Arc Graphics Following NVIDIA Collaboration Announcement

Intel Responds To Questions On Future Of Arc Graphics Following NVIDIA Collaboration Announcement
Earlier today, Intel and NVIDIA announced the two tech giants are planning to co-develop several generations of data center and PC products, with the latter also investing $5 billion into the former’s common stock. Hours later, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and NVIDiA CEO Jensen Huang hosted a webcast to discuss the announcement followed by a Q&A session,

Oops! Microsoft’s Xbox Mode For ROG Ally Just Leaked For All Gaming Handhelds

Oops! Microsoft's Xbox Mode For ROG Ally Just Leaked For All Gaming Handhelds
Microsoft recently released an update for the Xbox app designed to make gaming on Windows devices, including handhelds, more convenient. Additionally, the company has been working on a full-screen Xbox experience destined for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, which was meant to be an exclusive feature to better differentiate the device from competitors.

However,