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Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously.

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'Building the Superdome, a 15-fan PC side panel': YouTuber makes giant fan that looks amazing — and drops temperature by 20C

A YouTuber created a giant fan comprising of 15 individual 120mm case fans — and it somehow works really well.

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YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C

"It started as a meme, but I think I might actually leave this on my PC."

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"It started as a meme, but I think I might actually leave this on my PC": Enthusiast builds a "Superdome" PC cooler out of Noctua fans, and it works way better than anyone expected

YouTube Major Hardware went into this project expecting to land a meme, but the end result is too good to abandon. Here's how you, too, can build a 15-fan side panel for your gaming PC.

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Bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel dubbed the ‘Superdome’ lowers temps by 20 degrees — $600 worth of Noctua fans arrayed in 3D-printed structure

A TechTuber has constructed a bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel as a cooling experiment. It seems to do a good job.

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FAA courts gamers to become air traffic controllers — boasts $155k average annual salary after three years as the agency prepares for 8,000 applicants

The FAA's latest YouTube video is encouraging gamers to apply to become an air traffic controller, telling them that they've been training for this challenge. The agency is tapping on the younger demographic to help expand its numbers as the ATC shortage is hampering safety and airport operations.

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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X

A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner.

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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of VRAM and 970MB

Nvidia has just demoed its Neural Texture Compression technique again at a GTC talk, where it showed VRAM usage dropping from 6.5 GB to just 970 MB in a scene. NTC uses a neural network to decompress textures instead of standard block-based compression, reducing texture size and VRAM usage while…

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$500 fiber optic HDMI cable delivers flawless 48 Gbps performance across a staggering 990 feet — crushes 8K at 60 Hz and 4K at 120 Hz over long distances

The HDMI standard can often be unclear, with the same version number referring to completely different capabilities across products. You can technically pay your way out of this confusion by going with an expensive fiber-optic HDMI cable that maintains its full bandwidth over much longer distances. That's what this Twitter…

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Nvidia CEO says he's 'empathetic' to DLSS 5 concerns — Jensen Huang doubles down on defense while decrying 'AI slop'

In a new podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang struck a more conciliatory tone concerning DLSS 5, saying he's 'empathetic" to concerns about the feature producing "AI slop."

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Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to backlash against DLSS 5, saying artistic control remained with developers and that the AI works with existing geometry.

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Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition review

The only excuse you need for a Noctua build.

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Airflow enthusiast 3D-prints 15 tiny fans to fit inside a custom, domed Noctua NF-A12x25 frame — bizarre 'Fanhattan Project' cools the CPU just as well as a regular fan

Have you ever wanted to use a fan that's more than three times as loud as the other option while providing the same performance? If you answered in resounding joy, then this project is exactly what you've been looking for. A YouTuber 3D-printed a fan that's actually made up of…

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YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan

"This fan is basically a meme of the [Noctua] A12x25."

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Flabbergasted GPU repair wizard highlights dangers of liquid metal after leak kills entire RTX 5070 Ti — user-applied TIM spread to every crevice of the PCB, physically cracking and shorting out the core

An RTX 5070 Ti with user-applied liquid metal died because the TIM leaked out everywhere and shorted multiple components, eventually killing the core as well. Despite being part of a "repair" video, there's nothing really here to fix, as most of the important ICs would need to be replaced or…

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Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans — appears to be Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition with NF-A14x25 G2 fans

The case builds on the standard Flux Pro design with enhanced cooling hardware, mesh airflow panels, support for large radiators, and Noctua’s well-known brown color scheme.

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ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April — Microsoft touts 30% performance boost thanks to AI-powered image upscaling

Auto Super Resolution, an OS-level AI upscaling feature for Windows 11, is heading to the ROG Xbox Ally X and could deliver noticeable frame-rate improvements.

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Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL — update promises developers improved compression ratios, faster loading, and more

DirectStorage 1.4 brings along key upgrades to the API, including support for Zstandard compression as well as CreatorID for improved GPU scheduling.

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China firm Lisuan's homegrown 6nm G100 series GPUs announced with up to 12GB of VRAM — LX 7G106 can play Cyberpunk 2077 and other popular Steam games, arrives June 18 in China

The G100 lineup from Lisuan Tech now has an official release date, with the LX 7G106 being the gaming SKU with 12 GB of VRAM and a purported RTX 4060-like performance. The "LX" series of professional GPUs, likely using the 7G105 silicon, were also revealed with three SKUs offering up…

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Rumored RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon — refreshed entry-level Blackwell card might finally have enough VRAM for DLSS and MFG in demanding games

Trusted hardware leaker kopite7kimi has released fresh rumors regarding Nvidia's purported GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 graphics card.

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Dynamic MFG comes to RTX 50-series GPUs to push monitor refresh rates to the max — more flexible mode with 5x and 6x multipliers arrives March 31

Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced back at CES, will be arriving March 31, along with extended 5X and 6X modes.

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Linux hacked onto a PS5 to turn Sony's console into a Steam Machine — GTA V Enhanced Edition runs at 60 FPS on 1440pwith ray tracing

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam.…

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TCL intros two premium dual-mode gaming monitors — 27-inch 1,040 Hz QHD Mini-LED and 32-inch 4K OLED with striped subpixel layout

The TCL 32X3A is a 31.5-inch 4K OLED monitor with dual-mode support enabling 1080p at 480 Hz for esports gaming. It features a "Matrix-Pure" true RGB subpixel layout for better text clarity, along with speakers integrated into its stand. On the other hand, the TCL 27P2A is a 1440p Mini-LED…

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Nvidia driver 595.71 reportedly limits overclocks on some GeForce GPUs, but not all — troubled driver release seems to stifle voltages on RTX 40- and 50-series cards

Users report that Nvidia's latest 595.71 driver is creating artificial voltage limits on many RTX 40- and 50-series GPUs, causing some products to lose as much as 200MHz in overclocking headroom.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile GPU looks set to get more VRAM despite global memory crisis — 8GB could be boosted to 12GB, according to new listings

Multiple manufacturer listings show a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile graphics card with 12GB of GDDR7 memory.

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