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The debate about whether Windows 10 or Windows 11 delivers the better gaming experience is no longer a purely technical argument — it has become a cultural one, tied up with benchmarking obsession, perceived differences versus measurable gains, and a growing tension between security features...

Microsoft’s pitch for Windows 11 promised more than a new skin — it promised a gaming OS that would feel like it was built from the ground up for modern play: Auto HDR to breathe new life into older titles, DirectStorage to make load screens and texture pop-in fade into memory, and tighter Xbox...

Windows 11 ships with a cluster of gamer-focused features — Game Mode, Auto HDR, DirectStorage, hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling and per-app GPU preferences — that can materially change responsiveness, load times and visual fidelity when configured correctly, but many players never look past...

Borderlands 4’s PC system requirements have arrived, and they mark a clear shift: Gearbox and 2K are treating the PC edition as a modern‑hardware first release, demanding eight CPU cores, a large SSD footprint, and mid‑to‑high‑end graphics hardware even at the stated minimum tier. Background...

Microsoft and Phison are publicly at odds over whether last month’s Windows 11 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) caused data-loss and device‑disappearance issues on some NVMe SSDs — and the debate reveals a messy intersection of community test benches, vendor lab validation...

Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story...

Borderlands 4’s official PC system requirements have arrived — and they push the franchise into a distinctly modern‑PC envelope: an eight‑core CPU minimum, 16 GB RAM baseline, an RTX 2070 / RX 5700 XT‑class GPU at minimum, and a headline 100 GB SSD install, with recommended specs climbing to 32...

Borderlands 4 arrives on PC alongside consoles on September 12, 2025, and Gearbox’s published PC system requirements make one thing clear: this is a modern‑PC title that expects eight physical CPU cores, fast NVMe storage, and a GPU with 8–12+ GB of VRAM just to be comfortably playable at...

Borderlands 4’s PC system requirements have landed and they mark a clear shift toward a modern‑PC baseline: expect an 8‑core minimum CPU, 16 GB of RAM as the lowest supported memory, and a 100 GB SSD install, with recommended builds pushing to 32 GB RAM and RTX 3080 / RX 6800 XT‑class GPUs for a...

Borderlands 4’s PC system requirements are out, and they raise the bar for midrange rigs: Gearbox and 2K list an RTX 2070 or RX 5700 XT as the minimum GPU, an Intel Core i7-9700 or Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, 16 GB of RAM as the baseline, and a 100 GB SSD install, while the recommended spec jumps to an...

A recent third‑party listing for a 15.6‑inch Lenovo IdeaPad 1 has circulated with a bewildering mix of specifications — claiming everything from an AMD Athlon dual‑core CPU with 20 GB of RAM and a 1 TB PCIe NVMe drive, to the much more common Intel Celeron N4500, 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB eMMC...

Mint’s roundup of “10 best computer sets under ₹30,000” shows how far entry-level desktops have come: modest but practical builds with fast NVMe storage, 16 GB RAM in many cases, and familiar mainstream CPUs that can handle remote work, online learning, and light gaming — if buyers understand...

Microsoft’s follow‑up investigation insists the August Windows 11 cumulative patch did not “brick” SSDs, but the story is far from a tidy conclusion: community test benches produced a repeatable failure fingerprint, controller vendor lab work failed to reproduce the fault, and Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s latest position is unambiguous: after an internal review and partner-assisted testing, the company reports it “found no connection” between the August 2025 Windows 11 security update and the series of SSD disappearances and failures circulating on social media — but the empirical...

Microsoft’s August Windows 11 cumulative update has ignited a fraught, still‑unresolved investigation after community testers and some independent labs reported that sustained heavy write operations could cause certain NVMe SSDs to disappear from Windows — and, in a minority of cases, become...

Windows 11’s August servicing wave briefly looked like a potential storage disaster: users and hobbyist labs reported NVMe SSDs vanishing during large, sustained writes after installing the 24H2 cumulative update tracked as KB5063878 (and the related preview KB5062660), but Phison — the largest...

Honor’s new MagicBook Art 14 arrives as a slender, style-first Windows 11 laptop that tries to marry aerospace-grade materials with the latest Intel “Core Ultra” AI silicon, a dazzling 14.6‑inch OLED panel, and a removable magnetic webcam — but the headline-grabbing specs hide real-world...

Phison’s lab says the recent Windows 11 cumulative update is not “breaking” SSDs — but the episode lays bare how fragile modern storage stacks can be, how quickly panic and misinformation spread, and why conservative update practices and strong backups remain non-negotiable. Background /...

Phison’s latest public stance changes the tone of what started as a panic: after industry-wide reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update could cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during long writes, Phison says its internal testing — described as extensive — was unable to reproduce the...

Microsoft’s August cumulative packages for Windows 11 24H2 have been linked by independent testers, hardware vendors and multiple specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression: certain SSDs (and a smaller set of HDDs) can stop responding or “vanish” from Windows during sustained, large...