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It's not the display's fault but 16:10 laptop gaming isn't perfect. Yet nobody wants to hear it, not even my friends and colleagues
need space Consider this a lesson in self-ostracisation.
AverMedia X'tra Go GC515 review
Streaming hub An all-in-one recording, streaming, peripheral-ing hub for handhelds.
The latest influx of Intel Arrow Lake rumours make me cautiously hopeful about desktop and mobile processors for a change
News I'm not getting the confetti out just yet, though.
Cooler Master painted a landscape onto a CPU using thermal paste and the hardware nerd in me can't help but think 'that's way too much'
News Would slapping a cooler on top be satisfying or heartbreaking?
Nvidia says 'every PC with an RTX is an AI PC' as gaming revenue increases 16% year-on-year for the GPU behemoth
News Gaming's a small but healthy slice of the Nvidia pie.
MSI's latest BIOS could give AMD Zen 5 yet another performance boost with a 105 W TDP toggle for the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X
News Forget "fine wine" AMD GPUs, how about "fast-aging fine wine" AMD CPUs?
You can now rent a 'minibrain' for $500 a month and the potential implications are horrifying
News Once the remit of sci-fi and thought experiments, this is now actual reality.
No need to wait, that AMD CPU performance update is available right now in Windows 23H2, and even Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips should receive a boost
News If I was running a Ryzen chip I'd be installing this right away.
These AMD Ryzen 7500G and 7300G chips don't officially exist but they're making me wonder why we bother with naming schemes
News Let's all just make up our own names for CPUs in future, shall we? It'll be just as arbitrary, but more fun.
'I can look and it goes where I want it to': Neuralink participant is using his brain chip to play Counter-Strike 2 with just his mind
News I'll never not see Neuralink as some kind of sorcery.
AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend
News AMD says it's "heard from the community" and has updated its official performance figures for the Ryzen 9000-series.
I can't decide whether I want this AI customer service chatbot Rickrolling users to actually be real… but I'm still here for it
News Has AI truly gone too far this time?
There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month
News Pity the Ryzen 9000-series chips about to be cannibalised by a new gaming-focused last-gen CPU.
AMD's game-tastic next-gen 9000X3D V-Cache CPU spotted on Asus motherboard website
News CPUs we can actually get excited about? :o
'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
News Seems like too much effort for me, but I'm glad I can lay my eyes upon it.
Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
News Damnit, I seem to have misplaced my flask of liquid nitrogen.
Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
News $150 million is silly money, but still quite miniscule in the chip fab bizz.
AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
News There's another rumour going round that we're all just about done with the rollercoaster CPU market.
If you want to have fun while looking silly, check out the Roto VR Explorer, a super spinny chair that aims to solve motion sickness while VR gaming
News Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
News What, you don't want to drop $300+ for a slight boost to gaming performance?
Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
News A mixed bag, but not too mixed. Most PC makers are matching Intel's 2-year extension.
Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
News Is Intel making headway with Arrow Lake power efficiency?
MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
News Here's hoping this microcode fixes things.
