Phison is set to reveal further details of its upcoming PS5031-E31T SSD controller for PCIe 5.0 Solid State Drives. However, unlike Phison’s E26 controller that’s used for today’s SSDs, the E31T is designed to use much less power and be more efficient. That could enable the creation of PCIe 5.0 SSDs that don’t require heatsinks, which have

Source: Hot Hardware – Phison Announces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controller Expansion For Blistering-Fast Storage

The popularity of AI image generation only continues to grow as the quality of images produced by services like Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator and NovelAI steadily improves. It’s honestly an entertaining way to spend a few hours, and it can also be an interesting creative tool. If you’ve been banned off of Bing or don’t have the hardware to

Source: Hot Hardware – Imagine Meta AI Image Generator Can Conjure Amazing Artwork And It’s Free

The month of December comes with celestial treats of all kinds, including the gorgeous Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids produce the year’s most reliable meteor shower that takes place annually each December.

While some sky watchers may be awaiting on the rare asteroid eclipse that will see asteroid Leona move in front of the star Betelgeuse

Source: Hot Hardware – Beautiful Geminids Meteor Shower Brings 100 Shooting Stars Per Hour Wednesday

Without pulling out your smartphone, do you know what time it is? It’s time to save a chunk of change on a smartwatch, is the correct answer. And it doesn’t matter if you’re entrenched in Apple’s iOS ecosystem or Google’s Android platform, or are even mobile OS agnostic. Deals abound on both Apple Watch and Wear OS-based smartwatches, either

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Watch Series 9 And Google Pixel Watch 2 Are Up For Great Amazon Deals

Everyone hates the infamous Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD), but these diagnostic displays are a necessary evil to inform users what went wrong when their computer crashes. Windows has had this feature for decades, but recently it was revealed that Linux is finally getting its own Blue Screen of Death feature, and it’s way better than the new

Source: Hot Hardware – Now Linux Users Can Experience BSODs Just Like Windows, Why That’s A Good Thing

Lenovo’s GeekPro desktops usually offer entry-level parts, but the latest member of the lineup offers a never-before-seen GPU: the Radeon RX 6600 LE. This isn’t one of the GRE, China-exclusive variants AMD has announced recently either; the RX 6600 LE has come out of nowhere. However, this seemingly brand-new graphics card might not be so

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE Spotted In A Lenovo Gaming Desktop But What Exactly Is It?

Last night, The Game Awards 2023 awarded 32 trophies to some of the best games that were released this year. Of course, the Game of the Year is not much of a surprise, but some of the other category winners might be. Take a look at who took away an award below…
Game of The Year

Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing)
Baldur’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Baldur’s Gate 3, Alan Wake 2 And Every Winner At The Game Awards 2023

AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) is a driver-based version of its frame generation technology. It’s not the same as the frame generation feature in FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, as that requires game-specific integration. Instead, AFMF is implemented at the driver level, which means it can actually work for any DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 game—even

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD FMF Frame Generation Preview Driver Adds Support For Avatar And The Finals

To the ire of some, Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI hands-on demonstration video it showcased along with Gemini’s launch was somewhat misleading. While the tech giant said it wanted to inspire developers and did nothing wrong, some were quick to reply that the demo was disingenuous.

As it turns out, the actual interaction with Gemini

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Confirms Its Awesome Gemini AI Demo Was Staged And Explains Why

A user on Reddit who goes by the handle RedditCringe990 posted some interesting images of the inside of an off-brand power supply unit (PSU), and it serves as a reminder of why you should never cheap out when buying one of the most important (and underrated) parts of your PC. It doesn’t matter if it’s a modest build or a budget system, it’s

Source: Hot Hardware – PC User On Reddit Exposes Dirty Trick Cheap PSU Makers Employ To Trick Consumers

While we are in the midst of the current generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, most of the exciting hardware has already been released. As such, the RTX 40 series is easily recognizable at this point. If waiting for the GeForce RTX Super refresh has got you inpatient, however, there is a unique RTX 40 series GPU to feast your eyes

Source: Hot Hardware – You’ve Never Seen A GeForce RTX 4070 With Five Cooling Fans Until Now

In a cosmic game of hide and seek, an asteroid will pass in front of one of the biggest and brightest stars visible in the night sky. Asteroid Leona will pass in front of the star Alpha Orionis, also known as Betelgeuse (seen in the image above via NASA), which is a red supergiant in the constellation Orion.

Betelgeuse (pronounced BAY-tel-jooz)

Source: Hot Hardware – A Super-Rare Asteroid Eclipse Will Hide The Brightest Star In The Sky, How To Watch

Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s much maligned pirate game, let players interested in the closed beta know what hardware they’ll need to enjoy the title. One of the requirements that stands out is the hefty 65GB of storage the game will require, and Ubisoft is very specific that the game will need an solid state drive (SSD). The announcement makes

Source: Hot Hardware – Skull And Bones Closed Beta And PC Requirements Revealed, You Might Need A Bigger SSD

Intel deserves some kudos for maintaining a regular driver update schedule for its Arc GPU family. Even more impressive, though, is the effort its driver team has put into delivering chunky performance gains, with the biggest to date being a massive 750% improvement in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Intel’s newest Arc GPU driver doesn’t

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Hauls Another Round Of Big Performance Gains Up To 34%

If you haven’t heard about Intel’s Sierra Forest Xeons, then no, you haven’t had too much coffee, and yes, you read that headline correctly. These upcoming processors are massive chips that eschew P-cores entirely for a giant platter of tiny little E-cores. That’s left some wondering about performance, and while we indeed have a benchmark

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Monstrous 144-Core Sierra Forest Xeon CPU With 172MB Of Cache Gets Benchmarked

The OnePlus 12 has officially launched (in China, anyway) and yet, the phone continues to reveal pleasant surprises from within its svelte chassis. A recent teardown video just exposed how much OnePlus is serious about keeping your device cool during heavy gaming sessions or when used in warmer climes. 

Hong Kong-based YouTube channel WekiHome

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Teardown Reveals A Massive Vapor Chamber To Battle Temps

User reports have unveiled gaming performance degradation problems in Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 23H2 update. The problem is reportedly related to a Windows Defender bug that is choking or blocking off system resources, causing gaming performance to slow. Thankfully Microsoft has provided a fix for the problem, but it requires several settings

Source: Hot Hardware – Windows 11 2023 Update Is Slowing Down Games For Some Users, Here’s A Fix

A recent glitch in the desktop Google Drive app caused some files to disappear from users’ cloud storage containers. It’s been a few weeks of Google asking for patience, but it has now released a fix. Assuming affected individuals followed Google’s recommendations, it should be possible to restore the missing files now.

This issue first

Source: Hot Hardware – Phew! Google Rolls Out A Fix To Restore Missing Drive Files

Rockstar Games has an absolute monster game on its hands, and it surely knows it. With record breaking views on the highly anticipated trailer for GTA 6, gamers were tripping over themselves to get a sneak peek at what’s coming (it’s amassed over 120 million views in just two days). With months of only scattered information and leaks being

Source: Hot Hardware – GTA 6 Will Almost Definitely Snub PC Gamers At Launch And Be Console Only, But Why?

A woman who went into a hospital for a supposedly routine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exam got more than she bargained for. A handgun that she had snuck into the imaging room went off when the MRI fired a round into her buttocks, because, you know, magnets.

We understand that going to the hospital for examinations or procedures can

Source: Hot Hardware – MRI Machines Are Cool Tech But Don’t Sneak A Gun Inside Or You Could End Up Butthurt