Tag: hardware

Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you’ve got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket

Rip the display off…

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ASUS ROG NUC 970 review

ASUS ROG NUC 970…

After a decade of pumping out mini PCs under the NUC (short for Next Unit of Computing… catchy!) label,…
Alienware Pro wireless review

Alienware Pro wireless review

There's a lot to be said for the simple things in life. Bread and butter. A cold beer on…
Here’s your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Here’s your reminder how…

It might be easy to forget the rocky road that led AMD to its current steadfast and comfortable position…
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2024: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I’ve tested

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in…

Fans of small form factor PCs are a dedicated bunch, with the best Mini-ITX motherboards being the absolute superstars…
Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM

Micron expects GDDR7 will…

RAM chip manufacturer Micron has recently been making some interesting claims about its next generation of ultra-fast memory for…
‘We have won the war on floppy disks!’ Japan finally declares independence from floppy media

‘We have won the…

Japan has now officially “won the war on floppy disks”, having finally scrapped the many regulations governing their use…
There’s a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today’s GPUs

There’s a new ray…

If you want to test the ray tracing performance of a graphics card, you've got a few options. Most…
Elden Ring’s 1.12

Elden Ring’s 1.12.3 patch…

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree might be the dominant game of the moment, but while the DLC has…
SteelSeries Arena 9 review

SteelSeries Arena 9 review

What happened to 5.1 surround systems? Once all the rage for top-end gaming setups, these days you're much more…