Zack Shutt

All things tech and PC hardware. Building custom gaming PCs and high-performance workstations in the desert 🌵 @METAPCs

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My dad was nice enough to be on camera at @METAPCs and talk about how I got started

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AMD confirmed an Adrenalin driver bug that can write to your SSD around the clock, even at idle.

Owner reports: 1% of drive health gone per month for 16 months. One measured ~432GB of writes a day.

AMD says a fix is coming. Until then, look up the External Events service.

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Proud of the @METAPCs crew today 🇺🇸 they put together Hygiene kits for our local veterans shelter

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GTA 6 pre-load files won't run unless your PS5 is on Sony's newest firmware, and the requirement got RAISED days before launch.

Files are fully encrypted. The press reads it as anti-piracy lockdown.

Also the package is 222.9GB and wants 320GB to install. Half a base PS5.

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Nvidia reportedly just cancelled the 24GB RTX 5080 before it ever launched.

The 3GB memory chips it needed got too scarce and too expensive. The 16GB card stays.

Data centers ate your VRAM.

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NVIDIA is in trouble with Washington.

Jensen admitted the affair. The NYT says U.S. intelligence believes the woman was recruited by China.

And a government memo flagged her last spring

So why is it all coming out now?

What's your read?

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Whatcha need all that storage for...?

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Windows 11's November update is turning Memory Integrity on for more PCs.

Microsoft once told gamers to switch it off for better FPS. That support page is gone now.

New CPU? Leave it on. Older rig? Go check Core isolation.

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A Target worker went viral pointing at the black box on the baskets: that's a tracker.

It talks to the ceiling lights and maps your route. Running in about half their stores.

It's not a leak. It's a product they advertise. Shoppers just never got the memo.

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A Kentucky county meeting got interrupted by residents playing a data center's hum from their phones.

An official asked them to stop within about a minute. The county is weighing two centers at 160x that size.

The demo was five megawatts.

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Rockstar just confirmed GTA 6 targets 30 FPS on every console.

Even the PS5 Pro. It just gets PSSR and ray-traced shadows on top.

30 FPS. In 2026. On a PS5 Pro.

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Microsoft filed a patent for AI that rewrites live speech and redraws lips to match.

It profiles viewers to decide what changes: age, language, ethnicity, religion, college major.

Listed uses include game cutscenes and cloud game streams. Keeping the original is optional.

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Microsoft patented a way to rent out your gaming PC's idle GPU to AI companies.

You'd get paid in credits for software, AI access or cash.

Cook my GPU for pennies? Nah.

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Parts of Half-Life 2: Episode 3's source code just leaked.

Test weapons and enemies Valve never shipped, in files stamped 2008.

Closest we'll ever get to Episode 3.

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Someone built a Linux script called ram-altman.

It checks your free memory every five minutes and sends one email a day reporting your "quite terrible" unused capacity.

The man asked. The internet delivered.

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AMD confirmed its Radeon drivers can keep writing to your SSD nonstop, even while your PC sits idle.

Fix is coming in the next driver. Until then, open Resource Monitor and check the Disk tab for atieclxx.exe.

Worth 30 seconds of your night.

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Sam Altman flew to Korea and met 50 Samsung execs about memory supply.

Samsung's AI memory for 2027 is spoken for. SK hynix says demand is double what it can make.

He said let's build more. He meant let's get in line first.

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Google just launched two new AI chips built to take on Nvidia.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates Google's chips run about 30% cheaper.

Your move, Jensen.

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Steam will replace your broken controller even after the warranty runs out.

They'll also put back games you deleted years ago if you ask. One guy got his whole library restored in a few hours.

What's the best customer service you've ever gotten?

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A former Rockstar dev thinks GTA 6 might hit PC sooner than usual.

The reason: AI-made bootleg ports could get there first and eat real sales.

25 years of asking nicely did nothing. A bootleg got their attention.

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A Battlefield 6 player says EA perma-banned him for cheating and never told him why.

So he took EA to court in Brazil, got his account back, and says EA had to pay him about 4x the game's price.

No proof, no ban. Simple as that.