Tag: hardware

Computex 2025 showed that innovation in PC hardware often involves sticking a screen on something but don’t let that distract you from the genuine improvements underneath

Computex 2025 showed that…

Last year, I reviewed a new liquid cooler with a screen on it. It’s called the Hyte Thicc Q60,…
Samsung’s new Peltier cooling tech is more efficient and less wasteful and could be a great for keeping a power-hungry CPU chilly

Samsung’s new Peltier cooling…

New cooling technology is one of the more exciting things we can hear about in the world of PC…
As US tariff uncertainty continues, Nvidia’s RTX 5090 dips under MSRP in the UK and EU

As US tariff uncertainty…

As I type these very words, and less than six months after its official launch on January 30, it…
ASRock acknowledges and explains dying AMD 9000-series chips in its motherboards, rolls out a BIOS fix

ASRock acknowledges and explains…

Among many other descriptors, we could arguably call the last year one of hardware being pushed to the point…
Pump noise, what pump noise? Asetek’s new liquid cooler pump is so quiet ‘it’s on a level where you can’t hear it’

Pump noise, what pump…

We’ve come a long way with liquid coolers. The first generation was known for being loud and at risk…
A fabric-covered PC case was not on my Computex 2025 bingo card but I’m surprisingly into it

A fabric-covered PC case…

A fabric-covered PC case would usually spell disaster and yet I’m all over Tryx’s new chassis. It’s called the…
Computex 2025 made me realise I have no time for extravagant PC parts, just give me a simple, solid design and function

Computex 2025 made me…

I’m a staunch defender of the dull, the drab, the plain, the ‘oh yeah, I didn’t notice that.’ And…
I’ve seen every PC case that Computex has to offer and this new Havn chassis is my top pick thanks to its abnormally large fans, front grille and airflow optimisation

I’ve seen every PC…

This year’s Computex tech show in Taipei was filled with new and lavishly designed PC cases. Some big, some…
Zoom’s Eric Yuan becomes second CEO to use AI avatar on important investment call, ahead of the platform’s new custom avatar addon release

Zoom’s Eric Yuan becomes…

With AI being on the lips of almost every CEO, it makes some sort of poetic sense that the…
MSI shows off new weirdly flat PinSafe Design motherboards at Computex, possibly saving lives.

MSI shows off new…

MSI’s first AMD chipset MPOWER motherboard, the B850MPOWER, is also set to be a first in a new design…