Tag: hardware

Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates

Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming…

With the first examples of laptops powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chip landing with actual buying customers, Qualcomm…
Turtle Beach Atlas Air review

Turtle Beach Atlas Air…

Out of the box the Atlas Air is an underwhelming affair. It's an open-back wireless gaming headset with much…
Pay no attention to AMD’s horribly misleading benchmarks for its ‘new’ Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs

Pay no attention to…

Remember those “new” Ryzen 5000 chips AMD launched last week alongside its actually new Ryzen 9000 CPUs? Turns out…
Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they ‘may allow unintended access to system memory’

Asus tells owners of…

Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so…
Retesting Ghost of Tsushima with a fresh Arc A770 shows that Intel has a mountain to climb to compete against AMD and Nvidia

Retesting Ghost of Tsushima…

Last month, I put Ghost of Tsushima through a benchmarking meat grinder, testing every graphics preset across multiple CPUs…
Add it to the pile: G

Add it to the…

G.Skill has issued a statement directly addressing the recent spike in its DRAM memory pricing. The company writes: “DRAM…
Gigabyte Aorus 16X review

Gigabyte Aorus 16X review

Gaming laptops aren't a new phenomenon but manufacturers keep finding new ways to make them slightly annoying. It's remarkable,…
Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand

Goldman Sachs research seems…

Another day, another reminder that the memory market is screwed, yippee. The storage market as well, actually, although the…
‘The CPU is the weakest link in computing’—Flow says it can boost CPU performance up to 100x with its proprietary companion chip

‘The CPU is the…

CPU design has been undergoing something of a shake-up recently, what with the addition of NPUs into the mix…
Microsoft’s new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling

Microsoft’s new guide to…

Here’s one we missed a few weeks ago. Microsoft has posted a new guide to PC gaming hardware. It’s…