Tag: hardware

Turns out AMD’s ‘Compressonator’ tool for artists and devs was named after The Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Turns out AMD’s ‘Compressonator’…

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man with a long and varied career, from his entrance onto the world stage as…
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT review

AMD Radeon RX 7600…

How much memory your graphics card has access to is crucially important to gaming performance, but is a bigger…
Google says per-transistor chip costs stopped getting cheaper 10 years ago, but how is that right?

Google says per-transistor chip…

GPU prices remain painful. On that we can all agree. But can it really be correct that the per-transitor…
Yo dawg, I heard you like screens, so I put a screen on your CPU fan

Yo dawg, I heard…

Screens on AIO water cooling blocks are obviously a bit of a thing. But a screen on an air…
The solution to space junk might be space lasers because lasers solve everything obviously

The solution to space…

As any child running around the park holding a plastic raygun will tell you, most issues can be resolved…
Razer Iskur V2 review

Razer Iskur V2 review

I really wanted to love the new Razer Iskur V2. And why wouldn't I? It improves on practically everything…
Here’s path tracing running on the Steam Deck at 30 fps thanks to some settings tweaks

Here’s path tracing running…

When it comes to path tracing, the first thought beyond stunning game lighting is likely to be the heavy…
Passively cooling an RTX 3080 FE with 10 CPU coolers makes it look like a steampunk spaceship, and I’m a fan

Passively cooling an RTX…

Remember the RTX 3080? Of course you do. While it's easy to get caught up in the latest 40-series…
The PC Gamer 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

The PC Gamer 2025…

It’s almost Christmas! Okay, maybe not quite just yet, but now’s a good time to open up your heart…
Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: ‘reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast’

Ray tracing made possible…

Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in…