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Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.
Amazon Big Deal Days 2024 PC gaming deals in Australia: the sale is over, but discounts remain on keyboards, mice, headsets, controllers and more
Prime Day Deals This year's second Prime Day has been and gone but, inexplicably, deals remain.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
Gaming laptops on sale: top Australian deals in March 2025
Deals A running list of the best gaming laptop discounts and deals from across Australia, updated regularly.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
Best VPN for gaming
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.
The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
news If there's one thing I trust, its AI predictions. Said nobody ever.
The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
news Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.
It's been a frustrating 18 months since launch but we'll finally be getting PCIe 5 SSDs worth a damn this year
news SiliconMotion's new controller is finally ready to roll out to SSD makers.
Nvidia loses $500 billion in the biggest short term loss in company value in all of recorded history. A year ago that would have killed it yet today it will barely notice
news After briefly becoming the world's most valuable company Nvidia has now experienced the biggest three-day loss in value of any company ever.
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
news In a result that should shock no one, gaming performance comes off worst in the world of x86 emulation.
Unprecedented memory, frame rate boosting eye tracking features, and an ambitious ethos: In a surprising twist Adata had the most interesting handheld gaming PC at Computex 2024
news Bet you didn't see that coming.
Gigabyte's 'Next-gen' Intel motherboard shows off the new Arrow Lake CPU socket for the first time alongside AMD's X870E
news Gigabyte had both new AMD and Intel boards in its VIP suite, and also marked the return of its Project Stealth design.
Qualcomm's new Windows PC chip supports AMD's FSR… and I'm not sure AMD had any idea about it
new The new Snapdragon X Elite processors, the vanguard for the AI PC boom, makes great use of the red team's upscaler.
