The FPS Review

If you’ve priced a DDR5 kit or a high-end graphics card this year, you already know the AI industry eats first. Now one of the hungriest companies at that table has opened its books. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/26/a...

Radeon RX 6000 owners were told to wait until early 2027 for AMD’s machine-learning upscaler. They got it in October instead. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/a...

Borderlands 4 got a patch on October 22 with a long changelog. The most interesting change may be the one that isn’t in it. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/b...

CD Projekt Red called a previous update the last one, and Night City keeps not getting the memo. Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update, version 2.5, went live October 22 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, timed to Season 2 of the Netflix anime. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/c...

The “compiling shaders” screen has a target on its back, and as of this week every major PC graphics vendor is in on it. NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 621.01 WHQL driver adds support for Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) on GeForce RTX hardware. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/a...

Plenty of AM4 owners assumed AMD brought back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D because DDR5 prices went off a cliff. It turns out the plan predates the memory crisis, and it came from the very top. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/l...

Half-Life fans have spent two years decoding file strings, group names, and console variables. Now they have something better: a Valve employee saying the word into a microphone. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/23/a...

With RAM prices where they are, a lot of people buying a PC this year are getting 8GB whether they like it or not. Microsoft finally has some good news for them. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/16/m...

GPU firmware updates are rare enough that most of us forget video cards even have a BIOS. When one shows up labeled “security” with no further explanation, it’s worth paying attention. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/16/o...

Rumors are one thing. Empty storefronts are another. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/16/t...

Fortnite’s absence from Linux has always been about anti-cheat, not technology. Epic now says it has a plan to fix that. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/15/f...

Intel still hasn’t said a word about new LGA1700 processors. GIGABYTE, on the other hand, can’t stop preparing for them, and it seems to have second thoughts about how much it said the first time. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/15/g...

NVIDIA Broadcast started life as a way to make your mechanical keyboard inaudible on Discord. With version 2.3, it is quietly turning into a general-purpose AI video tool. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/15/n...

For years, the fastest way to use the Epic Games Store was to avoid opening the Epic Games Launcher at all. Epic has clearly heard that, and its fix arrived today with an unusually candid confession attached. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/15/e...

The last KINGPIN graphics card was the RTX 3090 Ti, and EVGA left the GPU business shortly after. For the overclocking world, that made the next chapter of Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido’s career a long-running mystery. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/k...

PC players have spent years assuming they’d be watching GTA VI on YouTube for a year and a half before getting to play it. That assumption may finally be wrong (Ed: Are you trying to be funny with the featured image you picked?). www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/g...

If you’ve been holding off on a graphics card upgrade until AMD’s next generation shows up, the wait just got longer. Kepler_L2 has a solid track record on AMD’s RDNA and Zen roadmaps. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/d...

Somewhere a PC builder is pricing out a 32 GB DDR5 kit and wincing. Meanwhile Intel has just announced a single graphics card that can carry 480 GB of the same family of memory. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/i...

Introduction How do AMD's Ryzen 7 8-Core "X3D" (3D V-Cache) CPUs scale in 2026 with new, updated, and refreshed gaming benchmarks? We aim to find out. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/a...

When AMD stops talking about GPUs for an entire keynote and starts talking about racks of CPUs, you know what kind of year the data center is having. At the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, the agentic AI pitch came with a very large core count attached. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/14/a...

Gears of War: E-Day landed this week and did something we almost never see from Unreal Engine 5: it pinned CPUs and scaled cleanly with core count. That makes it as much a CPU story as a GPU one. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/03/t...

When we wrapped up the August survey, we said September's numbers would arrive in early October. Valve has delivered. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/10/03/s...

Introduction The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU was announced at Computex 2026 in June and then released to retail as of mid-July 2026. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is not a limited-time retail CPU or restricted to certain retail outlets. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/29/a...

DLSS 5 has been hogging the spotlight since it arrived in NBA 2K27. NVIDIA's latest developer drop has a quieter update that's likely to matter more for the games you'll actually play this fall. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/n...

Arc Raiders started life as a PvE co-op raid game, pivoted to hardcore PvPvE extraction, and then found out a huge chunk of its players would rather not shoot each other. Embark Studios is now going to test the obvious answer. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/a...

It's rare for a live service game to go out by giving players everything. Quake Champions is doing it anyway. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/q...

Rayman Legends ran on a Wii U. Its remake needs an RTX 4080 to hit 60 fps at 4K, and it isn't even rendering native 4K to get there. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/r...

Logitech's PRO line turns 10 this year, and the company marked it by replacing nearly the whole thing at once. At its G PLAY 2026 event, Logitech G unveiled fifteen new products. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/l...

A $1,000-plus VR headset strapped to a sweaty forehead needs to survive more than one launch hype cycle. So the most useful thing to know about Valve's Steam Frame might not be its resolution but what happens when something wears out. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/25/i...

If you plugged your RTX 5090 in with the 12V-2x6 cable that came with your ATX 3.1 power supply, you did what almost every PSU maker tells you to do. According to one owner's support emails, PNY now says that choice cost him his warranty. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/24/p...

Introduction With this article, we close out our review set of three MSI socket AM4 2026 refreshed motherboards. This review will evaluate the PRO B550M-P. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/24/m...

Three months ago, over 160,000 players logged in to say goodbye. Now Bungie says the goodbye was premature. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/b...

Microsoft's "reset" of Xbox has reached the part where the org chart gets redrawn. The Bungie-born franchise that defined Xbox now belongs to the studio that makes Call of Duty. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/x...

A year ago, 540Hz OLED sounded like a spec-sheet dare. Now the esports monitor race has moved to 720Hz, and this time it runs at the panel's full native resolution. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/l...

With DDR5 still expensive, the budget PC world keeps pulling AM4 back off the shelf. This week delivered a new AM4 chip at retail and new firmware for boards old enough to be in fourth grade. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/a...

The next few weeks are stacked for PC gamers. Remedy's sequel, a free overhaul of one of the best RPGs ever made, and a Gears launch all land within about two weeks. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/n...

Image: AMD "Animate the cage, not the dense geometry," says AMD as it demos its new tetrahedral cage representation, which can reduce a specific type of memory usage by up to 47x when using ray tracing. Ever wondered what BVHG is? www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/23/a...

Introduction Wouldn't it be interesting to see what kind of an upgrade the Ryzen 7 9800X3D would be over a Ryzen 7 7700X3D in 2026? We thought so too. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/14/a...

Some early access games ship. Most do not (Ed: If we're keeping with the sailing theme, you mean sink, right?). www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/09/v...

Four months ago the Radeon RX 9070 XT did not appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at all. In our March write-up we noted that RDNA 4 was invisible, with only the plain RX 9070 charting at 0.16% in 99th place and the 9070 XT and 9060 series missing entirely. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/09/a...

Neural rendering stopped being a demo this week. DLSS 5 shipped inside NBA 2K27, reviewers got their hands on it, and the picture that emerged is more complicated than either NVIDIA's slides or the "AI slop" crowd suggested. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/05/t...

Introduction This review is the second in a small series covering a few of MSI's current lineup of motherboards supporting AMD socket AM4. In this article, we are evaluating the PRO B550M-P WiFi6E, a brand new model for 2026. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/03/m...

Image: Seagate Thinking about upgrading your local home storage or perhaps replacing an older solution? Well, prepare for some sticker shock because it's not just NAND or DRAM prices that have skyrocketed. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/01/e...

There is a version of driver week where you install the new build, gain some frames, and never think about it again. This is not that week. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/09/01/g...

Nobody who follows this stuff is surprised that Nova Lake-S wants a new socket. What changed this week is who is saying it. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/31/i...

Image: Sony Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro sold out in the U.S. at multiple major retail outlets following last week's extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, thus fueling outrageous scalping. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/31/u...

The best-covered product of the week is a 39-inch ultrawide, which tells you something about where display tech is right now. Alienware's AW3926QW put a glossy 5K2K RGB-stripe tandem panel at $1,099 and reviewers spent the week trying to find the catch. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/29/t...

Opening Night Live gets the headlines and the celebrity cameos. The Future Games Show is where the release dates live, and this year it delivered a wall of them. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/27/t...

The reveals start a day before the doors do. Gamescom 2026 runs August 26 through 30 in Cologne, but Opening Night Live airs Tuesday, August 25, and that is where the year's remaining announcements get made. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/25/g...

The culprit behind two weeks of Windows 11 game crashes turns out to be sitting inside your case, glowing. Microsoft has now named RGB peripherals and components as the trigger for the game failures that started after the August 11 Patch Tuesday rollup. www.thefpsreview.com/2026/08/25/m...