Tag: hardware

Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn’t need one

Antec heard you like…

Chalk this up as a likely micro-trend at the upcoming Computex show. Screens with everything. Or should that be…
Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won’t go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market

Rumours of an Arm-based…

AMD is plotting a CPU based on the Arm rather than x86 instruction set. So goes the rumour and…
The Stellar Blade PC system requirements are here and even an entry-level graphics card from 2016 can run it

The Stellar Blade PC…

The Stellar Blade PC system requirements are refreshingly light, meaning even a cheap rig from almost a decade ago…
The Asus tool PC gamers use to update drivers, fix bugs, and improve security, turns out to have a bit of a security issue itself

The Asus tool PC…

Driver updates—yes, I know they’re not fun, but we’ve all got to do them. At the very least, they’re…
With hardware prices in cloud cuckoo land, now’s the time to love the rig you’re with

With hardware prices in…

This time last summer, AMD’s venerable Ryzen 7 7800X3D was selling for about £320 here in the UK. Fast…
Nvidia might launch a GeForce RTX 5080 Super/Ti with 24 GB of VRAM sooner than we thought

Nvidia might launch a…

While all eyes are fixed on the entry-level and mid-range GPU market right now, thanks to impending announcements and…
Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved by a certain kind of hardcore hardware fan, can be resurrected with a bespoke Meteor Lake mainboard, bringing the 2000s machine right up to date

Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved…

Consider the humble ThinkPad laptops of yore—machines beloved of corporate types and those just into the unassuming robustness of…
AMD all but confirms the RX 9060 XT will be announced on May 21

AMD all but confirms…

We’re finally getting into full swing of the current RDNA 4 and Blackwell GPU generation, with the less expensive…
This is the ugliest GPU I’ve seen in a long, long time and weirdly I think I want one

This is the ugliest…

Look, I’m not usually one to jump on the graphics card aesthetic bandwagon too quickly. That’s in part because…
It sounds like a six-word horror story, but ‘Ransomware running directly from your CPU’ is now a real thing

It sounds like a…

Ransomware is already a horrible blight on the tech world. These insidious programs are designed especially to hold your…