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Tag: hardware

Forget all the AI fluff—some serious next-gen CPUs are on their way, praise the sun

Forget all the AI…

Andy Edser, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I've been testing: The limits of my patience on long…
Nvidia becomes the world’s most valuable company, but will somebody please think about poor old PC gamers?

Nvidia becomes the world’s…

Remember when Nvidia just made gaming graphics cards? Hard to imagine many at the company do as Nvidia yesterday…
XFX’s new Magnetic Air graphics cards let you hot-swap fans, solving the apparent plague of fan hub axle separation

XFX’s new Magnetic Air…

Have you ever wanted to throw a cooling fan at a graphics card and watch it magically snap into…
An origami USB connector and a games console that’ll fit in your wallet—two entries in a contest to make business cards exciting

An origami USB connector…

Business cards are a dying art—in the West, anyways. Most of us may never come to appreciate a finely…
The company that invented the AIO cooler has seen its share price plummet 40% due to a slump in demand

The company that invented…

Asetek, the creator of the all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooler, has just seen a 40% drop in its share value…
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles’ Heel of Qualcomm’s new PC chips when it comes to gaming

Emulation proves the inevitable…

Two weeks ago I was in a hotel in downtown Taipei prodding some of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite…
The solid-state AirJet cooler ‘not bound by the limitations of mechanical devices’ aims to double its thermal performance every two years

The solid-state AirJet cooler…

Frore Systems caused something of a stir back in 2023 with the announcement of its fanless AirJet cooler. It's…
Amazon eero Max 7 review

Amazon eero Max 7…

Wi-Fi 7 has its benefits, sure, but at $600 per unit, which each covering over 200m², you still need…
Intel found a bug in its high-end CPU microcode is ‘potentially contributing to instability’ though ‘is not the root cause’ of those long-reported game crashes

Intel found a bug…

It's been months since the first reports of Intel's Core i9 processors being unstable in Unreal Engine games, but…
Gigabyte A620I AX review

Gigabyte A620I AX review

I love a good Mini-ITX motherboard. As someone who tests tech for a living, I'm fortunate to play with…