As someone who knows for a fact that Sid Meier's Civilization series peaked in Civ IV, it is interesting to see Ars Technica suggest that with a bit of work Civilization…

In the bad old days there were a slew of USB network adapters, and as a rule they were awful.  You might luck out and find one that wasn't an absolute klutz…

The HEDDphone TWO GT has a rather uncommon pair of drivers inside of it, called air motion transformers. These are not the common dynamic drivers we are used to, nor planar magnetic…

There are studies which contradict the various sayings that vulgarity is only for those of low intelligence, they aren't great studies but they do indicate a positive correlation between the practice…

Brett couldn't make it again, we swear he's still alive though.  It's quite a lot about the latest Nvidia GPUs, power and performance numbers and value.  You GTX 10 series is going…

Montech will give you a unique look at your next LAN party with the new Heritage Pro and it's vegan leather highlights.  To add to it's uniqueness it also offers support for…

Today is the day that Blackwell GPUs goes on sale ... and they are now all gone!  You can search for them to your heart's content but the chances of you finding…

It's a bad day for developers and lovers of GitHub as there is currently a major outage effecting just about every part of the site.  Just about every service is having…

The price jump of the RTX 5090 versus the RTX 4090 was not replicated in the RTX 5080, which remains the same price as the RTX 4080 Super. This does make it…

The vast majority of games prefer European mythology, with some ventures into Oriental myth but there's a very small pool that take place in the deep south of the US.  This could…

The new Apple Cortex series processors, aka M2, M3 and M4, have a problem which will be familiar to Intel and AMD users.  The first is called False Load Output Prediction…

It is a beast, with 168 more texture units, 42 more RT cores, 5376 more CUDA cores and 168 more tensor cores than the previous king, the RTX 4090.  Those tensor cores…

The most recent driver updates from NVIDIA, which arrived with the RTX 5090, suggest that there will be no updates for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta era GPUs.  The practice of companies no…

Brett couldn't make it, but we did a show anyway.    The RTX 5090 is almost here, and we discuss the performance and value proposition that some have called the RTX 4090…

After more than two years, NVIDIA's new flagship is here. Now, this might seem like a silly question, but did NVIDIA really need to release the GeForce RTX 5090 now? Consider that…

id Software missed a chance to mess with people by announcing the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages will be on April 1st, but instead chose to wait a month and plan…

2025 is looking, amongst other things, to be the year of the botnet.  Yesterday Cloudflare reported on a recent DDoS from 13,000 IoT devices infected by a variant of Mirai that peaked…

There is just something wrong with having a single digit be the only indicator if you are purchasing a motherboard for an Intel chip or an AMD chip, but here we are. …

Seeing as how we are only getting unboxing videos of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 and no performance results, let's take a look at a new Arc card, the ASRock Challenger 10GB OC.  The…

Microsoft have released a patch for Server 2022 and a workaround for Outlook Classic which will let you get back to work again.  Servers configured with non-uniform memory access, aka NUMA, in…

NVIDIA's latest GPUs are almost here, but we can already tell you that 12GB is the new 8GB. Arc is the true way! (Ok, maybe not, but Josh did buy one.) And,…

Welcome to 2025, the year DOOM was recreated inside of a PDF.  DoomPDF exists thanks to the horrifying fact that Javascript can run, with its own separate standard library, inside of…

TechPowerUp attended NVIDIA's Editor's Day at CES, and have collected what they've learned into this article, delving into the technology under that shroud.   There are the obvious things like PCIe 5.0,…

Our second podcast of 2025 includes at least 10% more energy then the first one did, and is obviously our best of the year.  In this episode, we've got semi-hot takes on…

It is well known that many apps do indeed track your movements in real time, and for some years now security researchers have been trying to get people to grasp just how…

It's fair to say that VLC player is popular, as it has one download for just about every person on the planet.  Of course the distribution isn't quite that even, those reading…

On New Year's Eve, Mike Shapiro posted his first tweet in over four years.  It was a video post where he, in his G-Man character's voice and pacing, announced that "the…

Taking a break from the AI powered AI news from the AI enhanced CES 2025, here's something to make you somewhat nervous when driving. A security researcher has discovered a flaw in…

Dell has decided to abandon their XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude brands, adopting a new naming convention that is perhaps more than just a little reminiscent of Apple. Introducing Dell's Dell, Dell Pro,…

MSI released a number of new products at CES 2025, including the MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED gaming monitor, which is a CES 2025 Innovation Awards Honoree.  The disappointingly short model name is…

If you miss the old days of LAN parties because you don't want to fork over the money for a gaming laptop and your desktop is just too unwieldy to drag around…

After plenty of leaks leading up to CES, AMD surprised us by barely mentioning RDNA 4 in their presentation, with the promise of more information later in Q1 2025. Thinking that…

Last night NVIDIA unveiled the upcoming GeForce RTX 50 Series lineup, and while the presentation was very light on technical specs we do at least have pricing - along with further emphasis…

Phison is ringing in the new year and CES 2025 with a brand new PCIe 5.0 controller. the PS5028-E28.  It will be capable of sequential read and write speeds of up to…

If you love racing games, Thermaltake might not be the first name to come to mind but they are hoping to change that.  The G6 Direct Drive racing wheel bundle includes a…

To kick of the random coverage of CES 2025 we have news from the HDMI Forum about the next generation of HDMI standards, both the bandwidth and the cable.  It is just…

Our first podcast of 2025 is the reason that playback speed control exists. Just set to at least 1.5x and you should be able to stay awake through most of it.  But…

There aren't that many systems which need a 1600W PSU, but for those builds having a solid power supply is critical to ensuring stability under load.  The Seasonic TX-1600 PRIME Noctua Edition…

Samsung's EVO line has a long standing reputation for offering a beautiful mix of performance and price, and the 990 EVO Plus is no exception.  The price is kept low thanks to…

You and your friends aren't crazy for wondering why suspiciously targeted ads show up on your phones; your Siri enabled devices may well have recorded conversations you had no idea it did,…