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Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.
If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.
Cyber Monday gaming PC deals 2023
Cyber Monday is gone and the Cyber Week gaming PC deals are here to do battle!
Cyber Week PC gaming deals UK 2023
As always, we'll curate them all and pick the best deals for you.
Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2023
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale right now.
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2023
Cyber Monday is passed, so I guess that makes the rest of this week Cyber Week.
Cyber Monday SSD deals 2023
Cyber Monday is all over but the SSD deals are still flying in thick and fast in Cyber Week.
Cyber Week graphics card deals 2023
We're jumping out of the Black Friday frying pan into the Cyber Week GPU deals fire.
Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2023: big screen, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
Black Friday isn't really over, the discounts continue right through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.
Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.
This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
News "That's not going to happen next year or the year after that. It's probably going to be more than that."
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
News "Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
