Tag: hardware

After a run of RTX 50-series launches with seemingly little availability and mega price tags, I’m left wondering ‘is that it?’

After a run of…

The embers are still hot from Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics card launch, but looking around, you’d be hard-pressed to…
Looks like we won’t be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk

Looks like we won’t…

Western Digital (WD) is one of the most recognisable brands for both SSDs and hard drives, alongside Samsung and…
That dude from The Big Short says crypto experienced a ‘collateral death spiral’ as bitcoin hits a 16-month low, while other analysts predict worse to come

That dude from The…

I’m writing about cryptocurrency again, which means bitcoin’s either gone massively up in value, or it’s in the middle…
AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: back to winning ways

AMD Radeon RX 9070…

Before I tested the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, I wondered just what else AMD could try.…
Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Retailers ready heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones for release today

Nvidia RTX 5070 launch…

(Image credit: Future) Jump straight to the section you want…1. RTX 5070 quick links2. RTX 5070 Founders Edition links3.…
Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels

Best Buy outs a…

Best Buy has had a quintet of MSRP-priced RTX 5070 graphics cards listed for a while. Will those actually…
After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage

After 3,000 hours and…

Burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors. But evidence that it shouldn’t be a dealer breaker for…
It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast

It might be hard…

The CEO of electronics specialist Best Buy says that “price increases for American consumers highly likely” as a…
ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite review

ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite…

For over two decades, ASRock has been designing and manufacturing motherboards for desktop PCs, workstations, and servers. The first…
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we’re still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X

Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip…

Back when Qualcomm first announced the Snapdragon X Arm-based chip for PC, it made big claims about gaming prowess,…