Tag: hardware

Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change

Freakishly large graphics cards…

In my humble opinion, the ATX standard is broken. The PCs we know and love have evolved so much…
Classic PC games modded with RTX Remix just received support for one of Nvidia’s newest features: Ray Reconstruction

Classic PC games modded…

RTX Remix, the tool created by Nvidia to help remaster video games, has been updated to include DLSS 3.5…
NASA’s latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system

NASA’s latest speed test…

Lasers—pretty cool, eh? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had previously figured out to use lasers to beam a video…
At one with the machine—How sim racing has helped me practise mindfulness

At one with the…

Andy Edser, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I've been testing: the best PC speakers and best racing…
PCIe 5

PCIe 5.0 is nearly…

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I've been testing: Not very much, actually! Well, a spot of…
Razer forced to pay more than $1M in refunds for its RGB ‘surgical N95 respirators’ that were not N95 respirators

Razer forced to pay…

Back in January 2021, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer unveiled Project Hazel, a “surgical N95 respirator”…
The tech I’m most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn’t x86

The tech I’m most…

Dave James, once saw a laptop (Image credit: Future) This week I have been mostly: Playing around with one…
Suffering so you don’t have to, this streamer has doubled up on haptic suits to feel the real pain of Skyrim VR

Suffering so you don’t…

Having already spent over $15,000 on building the ultimate VR gaming set-up, one streamer has decided that the level…
Intel points at motherboard vendors for recent CPU instability issues but the chip maker isn’t entirely blame-free

Intel points at motherboard…

You might recall reports of Unreal-based games crashing when running on gaming PCs using high-end Intel processors toward the…
TSMC looks set to hit Intel where it hurts, announcing its A16 node with ‘Super Power Rail’ backside power delivery

TSMC looks set to…

While Intel has been busy making bets on its 18A node as part of its accelerated roadmap towards chip…