Tag: hardware

Noctua NH-L12S review

Noctua NH-L12S review

The Noctua NH-L12S is an impressive thing. Four heatpipes, a heatsink and a slender fan are all that is…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is proof, if any was ever needed, that you don’t need the latest graphics technology to have a great-looking game that also runs well

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…

Testing new games to assess their performance across a range of gaming PCs is an interesting affair. Sometimes you…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D CPUs are rumoured to launch at the end of March at roughly the same time as the RX 9070-series GPUs

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D…

CES 2025 saw the announcement of some exciting new Zen 5 CPUs from AMD, not least two X3D additions…
Not even the most powerful gaming PC is going to get around Civilization 7’s ridiculously variable performance

Not even the most…

If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, you’ll probably have already read through our review of Civilization 7…
Got the Nvidia 50-series and AMD X3D stock-out blues? Skip the waiting lists with this surprisingly well-priced RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming PC

Got the Nvidia 50-series…

Skytech Chronos gaming PC | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the open-world ‘realistic’ RPG, stands out from the crowd by virtue of the fact that…
This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo machine has a built-in panic lever, which I would be hammering furiously at every opportunity

This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo…

I have precisely one tattoo, which I paid a trained artist an exorbitant amount of money to ink into…
Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have

Civilization 7 PC performance…

With each new Civilization release, fans of previous versions have taken polarising views of the changes made and it…
Spider-Man 2’s PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance

Spider-Man 2’s PC launch…

The newly released PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest of launches, thanks to bugs and…
UK retailer expects more RTX 5090 stock in ‘3 to 16 weeks’, so, err, adjust your diaries accordingly

UK retailer expects more…

If you’re in the UK and currently hunting for an RTX 5090, you’ve probably noticed that stock is… limited,…