PC Perspective

1 week ago | pcper.com | Sebastian Peak

8GB is still alive in 2025 – but the RTX 5060 Ti cards cost less than last genIs there anything more subject to enthusiast scorn and ridicule than a perceived shortage of VRAM? Based on the reaction to last generation’s GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launch, the safe answer is no. And NVIDIA is at it again, with the new RTX 5060 Ti available with just 8GB of VRAM, though a 16GB version should theoretically cost you less than the 16GB variants of the RTX 4060 Ti did last year. Or not.

1 week ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

It’s From A Somewhat Recent Security Patch, It’s Not A Free U2 Album!The internet is abuzz with various theories about how those dastardly evildoers at Microsoft are plotting to take over your life via an empty folder called inetpub they secretly installed on your C: drive. Ignore them, do not delete the folder. It was created by KB5055523 to resolve an vulnerability with Internet Information Services, the empty folder will indeed be created even if you do not have IIS installed.

1 week ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

Old Habits Die Hard, But Things Have ChangedWhen most people thing of web browsers, Chrome, Firefox and occasionally Edge are immediately mentioned. Chrome is fully controlled by a company that seems to have dropped a word from their old motto of “Don’t Be Evil”, Firefox is prevaricating about what the word ‘sell’ means when it comes to your private data and usage statistics, and the only thing you can say about Edge is that it’s not Internet Explorer.

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

It Also Has A Speedrunning Competition Where You Can Win Real MoneyBoomer Shooters are quite popular among a lot of people, though not many are actually Boomers. I suppose GenX Shooters just doesn’t have the same cadence nor the double entendre. If you already have the full contents of the Humble Boomer Shooter Bundle linked to below, you could try out a brand new, not quite ready for prime time game that goes by the name of Metal Eden.

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Sebastian Peak

It has been just over a month since AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 Series GPUs launched, and while availability has been about what we expected (which is to say, limited) AMD says first week sales were “10X higher than previous generations”. Clearly the demand is there, and if gamers had ready access to a Radeon RX 9070 XT (outside of the 19 U.S. states with a Micro Center) in the subsequent weeks, then comparison of available models would begin making sense again.