Tag: hardware

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the ’90s

Sometimes you have to…

Growing up in the ’90s, good joysticks were strangely hard to come by. The stiff sticks on my local…
Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change

Freakishly large graphics cards…

In my humble opinion, the ATX standard is broken. The PCs we know and love have evolved so much…
The US gov shut down a $160 million smuggling operation trying to get Nvidia H200 chips into China and also, err, says the GPUs won’t be restricted anymore

The US gov shut…

The realm of international corporate smuggling and espionage is one that I tend to forget exists, sitting here in…
Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam’s local game transfer problem

Okay, this time it…

Last week, Valve finally fixed a longstanding issue with users not being able to access local network game transfers,…
NASA’s latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system

NASA’s latest speed test…

Lasers—pretty cool, eh? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had previously figured out to use lasers to beam a video…
Classic PC games modded with RTX Remix just received support for one of Nvidia’s newest features: Ray Reconstruction

Classic PC games modded…

RTX Remix, the tool created by Nvidia to help remaster video games, has been updated to include DLSS 3.5…
Philips and AOC announce the ‘world’s first’ 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors

Philips and AOC announce…

Philips and its sister brand AOC are claiming a world’s first in gaming monitor tech. The Philips Evnia 27M2N5500XD…
PCIe 5

PCIe 5.0 is nearly…

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I've been testing: Not very much, actually! Well, a spot of…
At one with the machine—How sim racing has helped me practise mindfulness

At one with the…

Andy Edser, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I've been testing: the best PC speakers and best racing…
Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

Gigabyte is launching B550…

You don’t need me to tell you the memory crisis is looking bleak, but, well, the memory crisis is…