Maingear has today announced the launch of its Zero Series of desktops featuring MSI Project Zero motherboards and cases. The Zero Series desktops featureMG-RC hidden cableswhich move the connectors and cables to the backside, helping to create a tidier build. Prices start at $1,399, with the most expensive model costing $3,929. The Zero Series line-up comes after Maingear released just 50 Zero Limited Edition desktops, which are fundamentally similar. By default, the Zero desktops use Nvidia GPUs — many of which feature on our listBest Graphics Cards for Gaming— and Intel CPUs (except for the Ruby model which uses anAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D)....

Retro gaming goes with theRaspberry Pilike peanut butter and jelly, and today, we’ve got a delicious sandwich of a project to share that highlights this pair in a totally unique and versatile fashion. Maker and developer ZeroShifter, as they’re known over at Reddit, is using not one but two Raspberry Pi Pico microcontrollers to spruce up his oldAgetex arcade stickwith some serious compatibility upgrades. This controller was initially designed for the Sega Dreamcast, but some people enjoy the user experience, like ZeroShifter....

Micron has revealed that its next-generation GDDR7 graphics memory technology will offer a 30% performance improvement for all gamers. Discovered byHarukaze5719 on X (Twitter), The next-generation graphics memory standard is specified as having a 30% improvement in frames per second over its GDDR6 counterpart (GDDR6 andG6X), entailing both ray tracing-focused titles and pure rasterization-only games. Specifically, Micron is saying these changes will occur with its upcoming 32Gb/s GDDR7 modules, in comparison to itsGDDR6(non-X) 20Gb/s version, which is currently one of the fastest speeds on the market for standard GDDR6 memory....

There’s no denial of the fact that the mouse sure is an essential part of your computing system. However, when your mouse abnormally starts to highlight everything on the screen, it becomes a problem. Every user, one time or the other, has faced the issue of their mouse highlighting everything on the window they are working on. Usually, this issue disappears after a simple restart of the computer. But sometimes, rebooting your computer will not help and you have to look for other ways....

ASUS and MSI are the two biggest players in the motherboard market. It’s not very fruitful to compare them as a whole, but if you put two similar boards together, some impactful factors will certainly stick out. Comparatively, MSI boards may provide the same features at a lower price point. But, ASUS’s AI overclocking might interest you if you’re just getting into overclocking. Or, you might prefer the BIOS UI of one manufacturer over the other....

Googlemay be considering rebooting its much-maligned Google Flu Trends (GFT) service, which died of embarrassment in 2015. First launched in 2008, GFT overestimated, underestimated, and failed to predict several major flu-related events during its seven-year existence. However, Google researchers recentlypublisheda paper outlining a new and improved flu rate prediction model that uses modern artificial intelligence (AI) methodology. To put it mildly, the original GFT service wasn’t a roaring success. Google’s own AI summation (image above) of GFT highlights several studies that found it inaccurate and thus unusable....

Gigabyte has begun updating its AM5 motherboards to AGESA firmware 1.2.0.0a, which supports AMD’s upcomingRyzen 9000series desktop CPUs. Discovered byHXL on X(Twitter), the new Gigabyte BIOS updates sporting AMD’s latest AGESA firmware provide new performance optimizations for the new Zen 5 series chips. These new updates come just in time for users to update before AMD’s Ryzen 9000 chips arrive. AGESA 1.2.0.0a is the fourth AGESA firmware update to support AMD’s Ryzen 9000 processors....

Big AI developers like OpenAI,Google’s Gemini team, and the folks behindMicrosoftCopilot have massive data centers at their disposal for AI workloads. Thanks to the work of a team of developers, a new software could allow you to run your own AI cluster at home using your existing smartphones, tablets, and computers. Theexperimental exo softwaresplits up your Large Language Model (LLM) to use some or all of your computing devices at home to run your personal chatbot or other AI project....

The vanilla version of Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake Core Ultra 9 part has been spotted in the Geekbench browser. Discovered byBenchleakson X, Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 285 was benchmarked in Geekbench 6.3.0, showing strong single-core performance but strange multi-core results. The Ultra 9 285 achieved a score of 3,081 points in Geekbench’s single-core benchmark and just 14,150 points in the benchmark’s multi-core counterpart. In the single-core department, the chip holds equal performance to many of its Raptor Lake-based predecessors, including the Core i7-13700KF, Core i7-14700K/KF, Core i9-13900K, and Core i9-14900K/KF, which have single-core scores in the 2,900 - 3,000 point range....

Nvidia released a boatload of announcements and updates at Gamescom 2024. A significant highlight of Nvidia’s Gamescom appearance was the announcement of20 new gamesthat support DLSS 3 and Nvidia Reflex. Nvidia also announced a new driver update supportingBlack Myth: Wukong, breaking concurrent player count records on Steam. Nvidia announced twenty new titles:Arena Breakout: Infinite,Black State,Concord,FragPunk,Marvel Rivals,Killing Floor 3,Mecha Break,Avowed,Eternal Strands,Greedfall II: The Dying World,Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap,Retrieval,Unawake,Spine,Once Human,Wuthering Waves,Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown,Empire of the Ants,Kingmakers....

Lo and behold, Jensen Huang finallylifted the veiloff the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and the RTX 5070 family last night with the first two set to arrive on January 30, while the RTX 5070 series is slated for February. Compliant with US export restrictions, the firm also announced a China-exclusive RTX 5090D, which surprisingly retains most of the specifications as its global sibling — unless you’re an AI enthusiast. The RTX 5090 is built using Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture featuring the flagship GB202 chip with 170 Streaming Multiprocessors enabled for 21,760 CUDA cores....

Nvidia on Tuesday became the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalization of $3.34 trillion surpassingMicrosoftand Apple. Driven by the global AI frenzy and rising demand for AI processors, Nvidia is the first semiconductor firm ever to become the world’s most valuable company. Just a few months ago Nvidia’s market capitalization was around $2.2 trillion and the company was behind Microsoft and Apple, but ahead of Saudi Aramco andAmazonin the Top 5 largest companies by market cap list....

The benefit of using faster video memory onNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Supergraphics cards has been demonstrated by Brazilian YouTubers. Hardware tinkererPaulo Gomesand the overclocking team atTecLabboth memory-modded RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics cards and overclocked the GPU (using the stock cooler) to boost performance. Using the Unigine Superposition 8K benchmark to check their handiwork, it is gratifying to see that they could both achieve significantly better 3D benchmark scores than the higher-tierRTX 4080....