Tag: hardware

Razer Blade 14 (2024) review

Razer Blade 14 (2024)…

The Razer Blade 14 (2024) is a highly desirable gaming laptop. It's the sort-of laptop that feels almost like…
Valve Hardware Survey for March—AMD still can’t make a dent in Nvidia’s massive lead

Valve Hardware Survey for…

It's that time of the month again, when Valve publishes statistics for its latest hardware survey. All the key…
Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

Cooler Master V8 Ace…

It’s not often we see serious innovation in air cooling; many merely spin on tried and tested formulae. That’s…
Linux kernel patch can boost the Steam Deck’s 1% low frame rate by as much as 31% in early testing

Linux kernel patch can…

A number of recent Linux driver patches has reportedly resulted in significant performance gains for the Steam Deck. Valve’s…
Internet speeds 1.2 million times faster than the US average are possible using the current fibre optic cable network

Internet speeds 1.2 million…

Underneath my road lies a cable on which, like many, my whole digital world relies. Fibre optic cables have…
Some gamers may be able to see more frames per second than the rest of us, adding to my list of excuses as to why I suck at fast-paced multiplayer games

Some gamers may be…

Next time you're in a multiplayer match, cursing the heavens as to why you're constantly being destroyed by players…
Mark Zuckerberg bromances Jen-Hsun Huang, claiming ‘he’s like Taylor Swift, but for tech’

Mark Zuckerberg bromances Jen-Hsun…

CEOs of big tech companies often get together for promotional duties and PR events. Such meetings usually involve talking…
TSMC makes the world’s graphics chips and predicts ‘within a decade a multichiplet GPU will have more than 1 trillion transistors’

TSMC makes the world’s…

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are some of the largest chips made, and in just over a decade, the most…
How I turned my MIDI instruments into the ultimate rhythm game controllers

How I turned my…

Since the moment Tiktok showed me a video of Super Mario 64 speedrunner CRZ's “drum%” run, I haven't looked…
Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable

Having built 500+ PCs…

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I've been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run…