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This gorgeous fanless RTX 5080 PC turns passive cooling into a thermal nightmare

A triple-radiator chimney was not enough to tame over 500W of hardware
WTF?! We've seen PC builds that prioritize performance, ones that focus on silence, and those that look like they belong in a cyberpunk art gallery. Billet Labs' latest project falls firmly into the latter – as usual. It's a custom passive water-cooled gaming PC with no fans, lots of copper, and enough heat to make its creator admit the internet might have had a point.
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Portal 2: Community Edition enters open beta with enhanced graphics, larger maps, and new modding tools

Modders have rebuilt Valve's classic on a modernized Source engine
The big picture: Portal 2, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, continues to receive mods, but its implementation of Valve's Source engine is showing its age. To address that, modders have spent the past several years building a new version of the game, with Valve's blessing, that enables enhanced graphics, larger maps, and more complex fan-made campaigns.
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Nvidia GDC 2026 roundup: More path-traced games, DLSS 4.5 debut titles, and RTX mega foliage

Path tracing comes to 007 First Light, Control Resonant, Quake III... and Mirror's Edge
In brief: Nvidia is using this year's Game Developers Conference to outline the full launch of DLSS 4.5, add five upcoming games to its list of titles supporting path tracing, and offer an early glimpse at RTX Mega Geometry foliage. The company also provided an update on RTX Remix, highlighting this week's launch of a path-traced version of Quake III Arena.