Tag: hardware

A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years

A gaming benchmark face-off…

When it comes to gaming, Intel hasn’t held any kind of crown since it launched its range of Arrow…
I thought audio driver troubleshooting hell was a thing of the ’90s until I tried using Bluetooth headphones with my laptop

I thought audio driver…

Whenever I’m about to declare that this or that has gone down the drain, I pause and ask myself…
Linus Torvalds is still on the ‘same old boring Radeon RX 580’, which is a sign I probably don’t need that upgrade I’ve been eying up

Linus Torvalds is still…

It’s easy to get lightly obsessed with upgrading PC gaming hardware, but if Linux developer Linus Torvalds is still…
Can a graphics card be 2

Can a graphics card…

When Intel re-entered the gaming graphics card market in 2022, there was hope that, at long last, AMD and…
Asus TUF A14 (2025) review

Asus TUF A14 (2025)…

This laptop feels like it was made specifically for me, and those like me. Its lush brushed metal and…
My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: ‘We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC’

My latest obsession is…

Not everyone wants a black box desktop. Yes, a bit of RGB lighting certainly perks up the samey cuboid…
Japanese furniture brand reveals the Electric Gaming Bed 2, the ‘forbidden layout’ built for the ‘supremely decadent’

Japanese furniture brand reveals…

Do you tire of the daily battle against gravity? Are you ready to at last forsake all earthly concerns,…
It’s been 25 years since my jaw first dropped at 3DMark2001’s Nature test but hoo boy, have 3D graphics changed since then

It’s been 25 years…

A quarter of a century ago, Finnish software company MadOnion released its third iteration of a certain benchmark tool…
‘GeForce 3 was such a transition for us’: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang looks back on 25 years of the classic graphics card

‘GeForce 3 was such…

Launching in 2001, Nvidia’s GeForce 3 series marked an important step for Nvidia, according to CEO Jensen Huang. In…
One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today

One Australian gamer was…

One of my biggest regrets over the last year is not picking up more hardware before the memory crisis,…