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Hardware manufacturer Razer doesn't know what it's doing when it comes to hardware and software, it seems, with a mountain of complaints from its customers about defects and RMA issues. Razer has problems with its Blade laptop's trackpad / touchpad, crashing and BSODs, external display connectivity, and more. Its Synapse software also negatively impacts performance, and its customer support hasn't been very supportive of end users.

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In this engineering interview and discussion with Noctua, we learn about fan angle of attack, blade angle, blade pass frequency, human perception of noise, and more. The video is focused on learning about some of the engineering aspects that go into fans, including educational material specifically focused on the angle at which blades twist to meet the air.

ASUS' decisions to force unwanted software onto users has put them at risk, like with Armoury Crate, MyASUS and DriverHub, and even its "AI" security features in its routers. We sought peer review from a security researcher, Paul (aka "Mr Bruh"), to dig into the topics of ASUS' vulnerabilities and exploits. If you have ASUS software installed, you should think about removing it -- and you should minimally update it. Likewise, be careful of what data you feed into ASUS' RMA and warranty system.

Previous ASUS videos!

• ASUS scammed us: youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY
• ASUS face-to-face on warranties: youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ZoCYXmF0Q

In this video, Bill Alverson of AMD shows us the tools he uses to troubleshoot and program RAM, including EXPO profiles and timings, and motherboard VRM protections. We also go through AMD's internal-only BIOS that it provides to partners, giving a better idea for the platform they build on. Bill also tells a story about a man named "Dave." You should listen to at least that, if nothing else.

(the submitted title is an amalgam of the two different titles which GN has used)

We join Der8auer to make Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal in a factory in Germany. This low-volume, high-precision factory near Berlin is focused on manufacturing thermal paste, liquid metal, and CNC products like water blocks and fittings. Roman "Der8auer" Hartung shows us the processes for making liquid metal in this special video, following-up our previous video seeing how thermal paste is made. These processes involve chemistry, mechanics, manufacturing, scanning electron microscopes for R&D, and more.

Game Information

Game Title: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Platforms:

• PlayStation 5 (Jun 26, 2025)

Trailer:

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 91 average - 96% recommended - 52 reviews

Critic Reviews

ACG - Jeremy Penter - Buy

AnaitGames - Víctor Manuel Martínez García - Spanish - 9 / 10

Atarita - Eren Eroğlu - Turkish - [86 / 100](https://www.atarita.com/death-stranding-2-on-

This video is just for fun. A small PC case manufacturer called "CherryTree" hand-made this pre-built PC by hollowing-out a Gigabyte video card, then named it the "RTX 5027 POS Edition." We're tearing it down and actually applying our testing lab to it. Because fun. The POS is shockingly well-built and very creative. We had fun with this one.

It's a bit confusing, but it's basically NUC internals strapped onto the form factor of a video card (with the original GPU ripped out).

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In this video, we'll talk about NVIDIA's last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus MFG 4X pressure from the company. NVIDIA has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS. NVIDIA has explicitly stated that this type of content is made "possible" by benchmarking MFG 4X in reviews specifically, despite us separately and independently covering it in other videos, and has made repeated attempts to get multiplied framerate numbers into its benchmark charts. We will not play those games. In the time since, NVIDIA has offered certain unqualified media outlets access to drivers which actual qualified reviewers do not have access to, but allegedly only under the premise of publishing "previews" of the RTX 5060 in advance of its launch. Some outlets were given access to drivers specifically to publish what we believe ar

Game Information

Game Title: DOOM: The Dark Ages

Platforms:

• Xbox Series X/S (May 15, 2025)
• PlayStation 5 (May 15, 2025)
• PC (May 15, 2025)

Trailer:

• DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025

Developer: id Software

Publisher: Bethesda Softworks

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 86 average - 96% recommended - 120 reviews

Critic Reviews

4News.it - Riccardo Amalfitano - Italian - 9.3 / 10

Doom: The Dark Ages marks a definite and conscious turning point for the franchise, offering a more mature, visceral and atmospheric dark fantasy/fantasy single-player experience. Abandoning the ult

This deep-dive investigation digs into the impact on the computer industry by volatility from frequent tariffs changes in the US market. We travel the US and make some calls to the EU to learn about how tariffs changes and rates are affecting various businesses, including those which already manufacture their own goods in the US and Canada. We spoke with independent freight forwarders, computer part manufacturers, computer building factories, Canadian and US-based case building factories, downstream manufacturers, and more about the real-world consequences of the current tariffs policies instituted by the US Government. Features [der8auer] (Thermal Grizzly) and [Louis Rossman], alongside Hyte, CyberPower, iBUYPOWER, Corsair, Cooler Master, 45 Drives / Protocase, and a freight forwarder from Straight Forwarding.

(it's a 3 hour video - like some others, I watched the first 15-30 minutes not really expecting to get through it all, but that hooked me in so I did watch it all --

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28611045

gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

[Gamers Nexus](http://www.5060.com/ TI Reviews)

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Meatsack summary / highlights:

The 5000 series has dropped support for 32-bit CUDA, causing e.g., 2010s-era games that implement PhysX to have to execute PhysX on the CPU, which can lead to atrocious performance (like a GTX 580 outperforming an RTX 5080) under bad in-game conditions -- even on a high-end current-gen system -- if you leave PhysX enabled and have a 5000-series GPU. Games designed with PhysX in mind are "experientially different" without PhysX and so disabling it is not desirable.

It's not the biggest deal in the world that games from 12, 15 years ago don't run on these modern GPUs - that's not really the core complaint here. [...] The real problem comes from everything that's sort of attached to it. And the concern we have is the broader issue which is that Nvidia has a habit of trying to come up with some sort of exclusive graphics tech for games - and it's the "exclusive" part that's key there.

[...] This drags the industry along in Nvidia's wake, and