In characteristically cagey fashion, Intel has posted a YouTube sneak peak of its upcoming 6GHz CPU. Intel says the new chip will hit 6GHz “out of the box” and “without the need of being overclocked”.

Almost certainly, this new CPU model will be known as the Core i9 13900KS and mirror the existing 13900K in all but peak Turbo Boost Max clock speed, upping the ante from the plain old “K” model’s 5.8GHz to the symbolically significant 6GHz figure. But Intel still won’t actually name the chip.

Intel demo’ed the chip using an off the shelf Corsair CPU cooler, running a 7-Zip benchmark and then Hardware Info to track the CPU frequency. Even in Intel’s carefully curated video, the chip doesn’t manage a sustained 6GHz.

Jason Xie, technical marketing engineer for Intel, explai…

Valve’s Steam charts now have a new live category exclusively for the Steam Deck, letting you view the “Top Played” games for the Deck in the past week, month, and year. The list, which tracks changes in rank compared to the previous time period, also shows prices and whether the game in question is verified for Steam Deck. It’s a great way to see what other people are playing—and pretty dang good at highlighting deals, since the prices show current sale prices for the 2024 Steam summer sale.

There are more than a few interesting insights to be gleaned. PC Gamer staff were quick to note that both Hades and Hades 2 are holding onto spots in the top 10 for both the past week and past month categories, with Hades 2 beating out a lot of newer and fancier games. The dual placemen…

Total War: Warhammer 3 seems to have clawed its way back into players’ good graces, turning things around with the superb Thrones of Decay DLC, which gave us flying ships, boozed-up dwarfs and one world-conquering maggot. Creative Assembly is still working on its follow-up, focused on the Khorne, Greenskins and Ogre Kingdoms factions—but in the meantime, we’re all getting a freebie. His name is Karanak, he is a good boy, and you can add him to your armies now. 

Karanak, the Hound of Vengeance, is a daemonic pooch who guards the throne of Khorne, the Blood God. When he’s not getting his belly rubbed, he hunts for anyone stupid enough to enter Khorne’s domain, gleefully murdering them with his very large teeth. With three heads, he expects to get triple the number of pats…