While Intel has been busy making bets on its 18A node as part of its accelerated roadmap towards chip making dominance, TSMC appears to have been beavering away in the background to undercut it. It’s just announced its own “angstrom-class” process, A16, which thanks to its backside power delivery implementation looks set to not only […]
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Another day, another 32-inch, 240Hz, 4K OLED messiah monitor, this time from Gigabyte. This is actually the third such panel we’ve reviewed in recent weeks, so safe to say we’re becoming quite familiar with what was, until very recently, a radical new segment in the monitor market. Indeed, for some time, the basic proposition of […]
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Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games. I didn’t really know how they worked, and I wasn’t very good, but there a hardware and gaming enthusiast was born. Now Microsoft has released the source code […]
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I’ve sometimes toyed with the idea of building a wall display of dead hardware, so I can live out my fantasies of a house covered in futuristic greebles. This Japanese Gacha machine might be the cheapest way of getting hold of a large number of borked chips for my project, as it dispenses them for […]
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Intel’s Core Ultra laptop chip is hot. So says Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. No not that kind of hot, but instead selling like hotcakes, apparently. Despite that Intel’s latest forecasts were below expectations as the firm continues the battle to turn its fortunes around. During its latest earnings call (via Seeking Alpha) with analysts, Intel […]
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It’s been a pretty big 24 hours in the world of Formula One. On top of rumors that Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey could be leaving the team for unknown pastures comes the news that Ferrari has named HP as its title sponsor for the next several years. That means the red team is […]
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VR is sometimes dismissed as a fad, with some seemingly desperate to ring the death knell on virtual reality and its associated hardware at the earliest opportunity. While we’re not so convinced, the latest financial report from Meta shows staggering expenses in regards to its VR headset and augmented reality division that are difficult to […]
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It feels weird when you’ve got a shiny new gaming screen sitting on your desktop, with all the rich OLED-ness we’ve been wanting from our monitors, to find yourself pining for the old-school IPS screen it’s just displaced. But that’s where I am with the new Dough Spectrum Black screen. If you were to just […]
Read MoreIf productivity apps were party guests, Microsoft Excel would be the guy who sits in the corner, interrupting every anecdote with the phrase “actually, I think you’ll find…”, and as a result, rarely gets invited back. It’s a dependable old workhorse of a program, depressingly accurate and dry as the apocalyptic wastes. However, this Fallout-inspired […]
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We’ve suspected AMD’s Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it’s aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex keynote on June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS […]
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The HyperX Cloud III Wireless offer a more affordable alternative to the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless we recommend as the best wireless gaming headset. For many PC gamers, that’s likely to be a tantalising offer. However, the Cloud III and Cloud Alpha are very different headsets, and I’m not entirely convinced by this cheaper unit. […]
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Back in November, NASA’s second longest-running spacecraft Voyager I began sending data that made no sense whatsoever. Instead of information about its status and what various sensors were recording, all the scientists got was a meaningless repeated pattern. Well, after much head-scratching and hard work, engineers have fixed the issue and confirmed that Voyager I […]
Read MoreQualcomm has just taken the wraps off its new Snapdragon X range of laptop PC chips, giving us the full details of its first flush of ARM-based CPUs and a new lower-end model, too. The NEW Snapdragon X Plus processors will sit alongside the higher-spec X Elite chips, bringing the ARM architecture to the traditionally […]
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With Homeworld 3 just weeks away from launch, Blackbird Interactive has done what surprisingly few developers do these days: updated and released a comprehensive system requirements chart. For gamers using a modest PC, it looks very promising, but if you’re hoping to play it at 4K with maximum graphics, you’re going to need the very […]
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Apple has reportedly slashed production volumes of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset by nearly half. So says analyst and leading Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo reckons the original plan was for up to 800,000 units of the headset in 2024. This has now been cut to 400,000 to 450,000. He also notes that Apple […]
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AMD has uploaded a set of new files to its Linux repository, something that it does regularly. What makes these special is the one specifically for graphics chips uses a codename that tallies with a previous update to its Linux compiler, all of which confirms that a refresh to the RDNA 3 architecture is nearing […]
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Ready yourselves for a special edition of the Meta Quest 3. The theme? Xbox. The point? It comes with Xbox controllers and Game Pass in the box. Meta has announced that it will be opening up the OS included with the Meta Quest 3 to other hardware manufacturers, including Lenovo and Asus. The latter is […]
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The new Asus ROG Carnyx marks the company’s entry into the hugely competitive streaming microphone industry. On paper, it has everything the discerning streamer needs; beautiful, all-metal design, USB connectivity, 24-bit audio, studio-grade 25mm condenser with a high-pass filter, internal pop filter, sidetone and of course, Aura Sync RGB lighting for the camera. All these […]
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The operating system powering Meta’s Quest headsets is going to be released to third-party hardware makers. The newly-named Meta Horizon OS is built on the foundations laid for today’s most popular VR headsets, and includes new tools and frameworks for utilising features we’ve come to expect from Quest headsets into new, original designs. And if […]
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The European Parliament has just adopted new rules making the right to repair much stronger across EU member states. The new rules not only give consumers a hand in requesting support for repairing items from manufacturers but also crack down on ways to block third-party repairs. All of which should see everything from laptops to […]
Read More The European Parliament has just adopted new rules making the right to repair much stronger across EU member states. The new rules not only give consumers a hand in requesting support for repairing items from manufacturers but also crack down on ways to block third-party repairs. All of which should see everything from laptops to […]
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Update: EK’s current CEO and founder, Edvard König, has published a statement on the financial issues claimed by contractors, business partners and employees of the liquid cooling company. In which, König admits to delayed payments and a lack of communication, and outlines some corrective measures to attempt to address issues brought to light by various […]
Read MoreWith some Intel i9 users reporting issues with games crashing, Asus has responded by releasing new BIOS files for a raft of its Intel-based motherboards. The main update sports an ‘Intel Baseline Profile’ which is claimed to apply stock power limits to the CPU. However, the feature isn’t quite doing what it says it is, […]
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The march towards DDR5-10000 continues. Although overclockers have already well and truly passed that mark, those kinds of speeds are all but out of reach without extreme cooling and you have the combination of top quality memory and a CPU with an equally good memory controller. JEDEC is the body that defines and maintains the […]
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PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are now widely available. There are numerous examples of speedy Gen 5 x4 drives including Teamgroup Z540 And Nextorage X Series. But one of the names missing the Gen 5 x4 wave is Samsung. We’re yet to see a true replacement for the Samsung 990 Pro. Or have we? The answer […]
Read MoreNine months ago, we reported a problem with SD cards being ruined by the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC. Back then, Asus said that heat was the issue and released a BIOS update to adjust the fan speeds. How successful that fix was is unclear but Asus has now announced a 12-month warranty extension for […]
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When the first Oculus Rift headset broke cover it brought with it the promise of affordable virtual reality in the home and it was going to be some brave new world of gaming… which inevitably hasn’t come to pass. So yeah, VR isn’t the pinnacle of PC gaming by any stretch of the imagination, but […]
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Have you heard of the simulation hypothesis? It’s the idea that the universe, as we perceive it, is essentially a form of simulated reality and it’s been explored in genuine scientific research, philosophical texts, and major plot devices in numerous films. Well, a new physics research paper on the nature of information claims that if […]
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There are those of us out there who simply adore small form factor PCs, especially those that can cram a decent level of performance into something the size of a shoebox. These days, it’s pretty hard to get around the TDP requirements of a high-end graphics card, though. I’d hoped the single slot Galax RTX […]
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If you’ve got a powerful GPU in your machine, it may seem like a bit of a waste to leave all the computing power sitting in the background, doing relatively little at idle. In which case, Salad, a company that offers game codes, gift cards, and other items in exchange for users GPU resources, might […]
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Cherry’s switches are dependable, unwavering, and the standard by which many of us judge all other switches. So, what happens when Cherry changes them? You get the new MX2A Red switches inside the Cherry-made Xtrfy K5V2—a new and improved version of the Cherry MX Reds we’ve come to know well over the years. The MX2A […]
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