Tag: hardware

Presumed Battlemage engineering sample suggests there’s some hope for Intel’s next-gen Arc GPUs in the mid-range

Presumed Battlemage engineering sample…

Talk might revolve around AMD Strix Point and Intel Lunar Lake chips of late, but there's plenty of hunger…
Can my 14-year-old gaming PC, loaded with the one-time most powerful graphics card in the world, still deliver a good PC gaming experience in 2024?

Can my 14-year-old gaming…

Navigate this feature quickly 1. The mission 2. The hardware 3. The games 3. But can it run Crysis…
The new iPhone 16 proves that we’re winning the fight for the right to repair

The new iPhone 16…

The new Apple iPhone 16 is much more repairable than its predecessor. So says no less an authority on…
This Balrog spacebar is literal fire and has made me realise I need a full set of LOTR keycaps, ASAP

This Balrog spacebar is…

Do you remember the first time you witnessed the Balrog? I do. First, a distant flicker, an orange hue…
The GPU market is back, baby, and astonishing ‘market watchers who have been predicting its doom for decades’

The GPU market is…

There's been relatively little news on the discrete graphics card front for a while. The most exciting developments have…
HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I’m over here playing spot the difference

HP has smushed together…

We are gathered here today to celebrate the uniting of two households, both alike in dignity. Or alternatively, two…
The official specs for Monster Hunter Wilds on PC have it running at a very yucky 720p upscaled and 30fps on older GPUs

The official specs for…

We've already reported on the February 28, 2025 release date for Monster Hunter Wilds. Now we can reveal exactly…
HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing

HyperX gaming monitors are…

HyperX, the gaming hardware brand acquired by HP back in 2021, now makes gaming monitors. Well, that’s not strictly…
MSI’s monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to ‘completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes’, apparently

MSI’s monstrous 1000 W…

There’s something to be said for throwing moderation out the window and going all in on excess. MSI seems…
‘It’s certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we’d like it’—Corsair CEO on its Fanatec acquisition

‘It’s certainly not going…

Earlier this year, we reported on Corsair's plan to acquire Endor AG, owners of the sim racing specialist Fanatec.…