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Matt, who runs his well-known YouTube channelDIY Perks, has created an amazing “Endgame Invisible PC.” This involves making a complex hidden panel that opens to reveal an integrated widescreen OLED monitor with all the peripherals underneath, his desktop-grade ultra-high-end components, and a ginormous custom liquid cooling radiator. All of this is hidden within the tabletop of a motorized desk capable of supporting 440 lbs (or close to 200 kg). While the whole build is impressive in itself, nothing about it is easy....

Long-time PC hardware leaker Golden Pig Upgrade has made a slew of predictions for Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs (viaVideoCardz). Some of the claims are easy to believe, such as Arrow Lake lacking support for DDR4 and only having the weakest iGPU that’s currently paired with current-generation Meteor Lake chips. However, Golden Pig Upgrade also says Arrow Lake won’t have hyper-threading, and most models won’t be made at Intel; instead, they rely on TSMC’s processes....

MSI has unveiled the GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Ventus 3X, the brand’s third customGeForce RTX 4090Dfor the Chinese market. The graphics card arrives as a cheaper option for Chinese consumers who don’t require all the bells and whistles of the GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Gaming X Slim or GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Suprim X. The GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Ventus 3X is a virtual copy of MSI’s outgoing GeForce RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, down to the exact dimensions (322 x 136 x 62 mm)....

A tech tinkerer decided to put the homebrew Nintendo 3DS port of DOSBox to the ultimate test — running Windows 95. Using the souped-up version of the 3DS, the “New” 3DS with additional RAM and processing power, TechTuber MetraByte was able to install the DOSBox port successfully and, subsequently, the Windows 95 operating system directly on top of that DOSBox instance. The load times involved seemed quite long, too, especially when he decided to leave the handheld alone overnight while on his first boot of Windows 95....

Nintendo continues its DMCA takedown rampage this week as it has taken down 8,535 Yuzu repos on Github, perhaps the most effective single takedown notice seen in recent years. The move to strike follows Nintendo’sattack on Garry’s Moduser-generated content last week, likely signaling a bolder Nintendo legal team than we’ve seen before. Yuzu, a popular Nintendo Switch emulator, has been a target of Nintendo’s ire for some time now. Nintendotook Yuzu to courtin February of this year, claiming that the emulator enabled “piracy at a colossal scale”....

Nvidia has a limited-time summer sale going on for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The sale sees prices of all itspaid membership subscriptionscut in half, making it the perfect time to try out Nvidia’s cloud gaming service.GeForce Now’s Priority membership and Ultimate membership have been discounted by 50% for the summer sale. That brings the Priority membership’s pricing from $9.99 a month to just $4.99 a month. The 6-month Priority membership sees the same discount, going from $49....

Nvidia latest blog postreiteratesthat is has crossed the threshold of “more than 600 games and applications” featuring RTX technologies. These technologies include DLSS, the AI-accelerated image upscaler; Reflex, a latency reducer/framerate-steadier; other AI tech; and of couce the expected real-time ray-tracing effects. The most popular of the RTX-enabled technologies is Nvidia DLSS, which also inspired AMD FSR2/3 and Intel XeSS as alternatives on other GPU vendors' hardware — and FSR4 is set to be AI-enabled....

Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, confirmed atGTC 2025that the company plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on chips made in the U.S. over the next four years, reports theFinancial Times. This decision comes as the company works to lessen its reliance on Asian manufacturing due to potential tariffs under the Trump administration and geopolitical instability surrounding Taiwan. The company is also producing Blackwell systems in the US....

Whether your Oculus controller isn’t connecting or isn’t working properly even when it is paired to the headset, you need to fix it right away. The virtual reality headset isn’t handy if you don’t have the controllers as inputs. The link between the controllers and the headset should reappear every time you power on the headset after they connect to it the first time, but you may always manage it in the Oculus app if necessary....

Qualcomm is making good progress onadapting its new Snapdragon X Elite laptop CPU for Linux use. The mobile SoC manufacturer revealed that it has laid a lot of the groundwork already to get theSnapdragon X Eliterunning the Linux operating systems. However, Qualcomm is far from done, as there’s still a lot of development work needed to get the X Elite into a fully operational state in Linux. Upcoming Linux kernels should enable full support for all the chip’s features....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict A solid attempt at a Raspberry Pi alternative, it just falls short by not unleashing the full power of the N100. The form factor and the RP2040 GPIO along with the x86 CPU make this a great deal but there are caveats to take into account. Comparable Price to the Pi 5 Pi-like form factor Full CPU power not used Needs more power Just too big for Raspberry Pi cases...

The team behind theLattePanda 3 Deltaand theLattePanda Sigmahas announced its latest x86 based single board computer (SBC). Rather than build another big board, theLattePanda Muis a 60 x 69.6mm compute module, in a similar vein to theRaspberry Pi Compute Module. Don’t let the tiny size fool you, as powering this board is theIntel N100, a processor that is making waves in the single board computer communities thanks to its low cost and high performance....

TheRaspberry Pi 5may be the new flagship Pi, but there is still plenty of life in theRaspberry Pi 4, especially theCompute Module 4found at the heart ofDigiPort. DigiPort is a “Next-Get Pocket PC” and the first project from Geeky Tronics (based in Sydney, Australia), has just been released on Kickstarter and has already attained 96% of its AU$5,000 ($3,447) goal. Designed like aAmazonTV Firestick / Chromecast dongle, DigiPort is essentially a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4....