Tag: hardware

Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model

Valve has quietly discontinued…

If you were hoping to get in on that Steam Deck hype without splurging on the newer model with…
The first technical deep dive of the Zen 5 architecture is here, with preliminary benchmarks supporting AMD’s IPC claims

The first technical deep…

It's been almost a month since AMD unveiled its Zen 5 processor architecture and new range of Ryzen CPUs…
Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it’s still not the master of all things rendering

Microsoft celebrates 10 years…

In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around…
MSI’s slashing its laptop prices through June, so if you’re thinking of upgrading now’s the time

MSI’s slashing its laptop…

There are many reasons to love summer. The longer nights. Barbecues on the beach. Another opportunity to wear the…
Why bother using spinning fans to cool your PC when you can just spin your whole rig?

Why bother using spinning…

These days, you can't really get away with having a desktop PC without fans. Sure it's possible if your…
AMD stealth-launches a new low power version of its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card that could be great for a DIY Steam Machine, though it’s only shaved 13% off the energy consumption

AMD stealth-launches a new…

If there’s one thing you don’t expect to see during the final weeks of a year, right before everywhere…
OLED monitors are starting to get their flowers, as 2025 marks a 65% increase in shipments

OLED monitors are starting…

OLED gaming monitors are becoming ever more mainstream, with 2025 being the best year they’ve had so far, according…
Extreme overclocker Vince ‘Kingpin’ Lucido is working with PNY on its GPUs—and potentially the next-gen Nvidia cards

Extreme overclocker Vince ‘Kingpin’…

Pour one out for EVGA graphics cards. Back in September 2022, the company announced it would make no more,…
This 20,000HP AI-generated rocket engine took just two weeks to design and looks like HR Giger’s first attempt at designing a trumpet

This 20,000HP AI-generated rocket…

I've never looked at a rocket engine and thought “well that's dull”, but this design makes all the others…
It’s an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

It’s an older node,…

When it comes to the latest CPUs and GPUs, we all know that they need to be made on…