Tag: hardware

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…
‘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…
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…
The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card

The most popular RTX…

The latest Steam hardware survey is here and there are some changes of note. Chief among them is the…
Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as ‘the risk of abuse by chip providers’ scrutinised by competition authority

Nvidia could face antitrust…

Nvidia is under the watchful eye of the French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, and may face charges…
Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi review

Asus ROG Strix Z790-I…

Now that the Micro ATX form factor has all-but been relegated to the budget end of the market, Mini-ITX…
Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor

Samsung was either feeling…

We may never see a lower price for the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 than what I caught it going…
OXS Thunder Pro review

OXS Thunder Pro review

Soundbars offer a different experience to your more traditional speaker setup. Because you can't loop together tweeters with cables…
Intel’s Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years

Intel’s Arrow Lake chips…

After years of using the same fundamental layout of processing cores in its desktop CPUs, it looks like Intel…