Hands up those of you that thought we’d be living in a far more science fiction-like future by now. Yep, me too. Still, it seems like some futuristic ideas that could be ripped straight from the pages of an Arthur C. Clarke novel might be in the works, as NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) […]
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You know how we were literally just talking about how Nvidia’s GPUs massively outstrip the AI performance of the NPUs in upcoming CPUs (that’s enough ‘PUs)? Well, whaddya know, Nvidia has spotted that, too. According to Chinese site Benchlife (via Tom’s Hardware), Nvidia has been bigging up the AI processing chops of its GPUs, apparently […]
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We’re big fans of the Radeon RX 7800 XT over here at PC Gamer. It’s a smarter, cheaper, slightly more powerful RX 6800 XT, dropping the cost for that level of gaming performance down to a more palatable price point. Win, win, and win. And you can grab an overclocked version of this fine GPU […]
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The Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset has had something of a rough ride since its release. While the engineering involved is impressive, the $3,499 price tag in combination with some early adopter woes seems to have taken some of the shine off of a device that Apple CEO Tim Cook described as “the beginning […]
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AMD is 55 years old. Only a little bit older than myself and, also like myself, few people expected it to last much beyond 45 years. Just a decade ago—with a meagre datacentre business, and a ropey CPU architecture that was the subject of a $12.1 million class action lawsuit because it kinda wasn’t what […]
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AI, everywhere, all at once. The AI boom is utterly overwhelming and the PC, inevitably, is not immune. About a month from now, you’ll be able to buy a machine that officially qualifies as an “AI” PC, according to no lesser an authority than Microsoft. But you might be surprised what’s powering it. Of course, […]
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We’re always on the hunt for hardware deals here at PC Gamer, but this might be a bit much even by our standards. The US General Services administration is currently auctioning off a decommissioned 5.34 petaflop supercomputer, and although the starting price was a mere $2,500, the top bid is currently $280,085. A bargain, we […]
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When playing games with a wired gaming mouse, you expect to encounter a little drag from said wire. As much as light cables help reduce drag, it’s generally an inevitability. But there are mouse designers out there, such as those at Endgame Gear, working to ease our suffering with gaming mice like the new OP1 […]
Read MoreGigabyte’s G5 (2023) is our favourite budget gaming laptop, so when this Gigabyte G6X 9KG 2024 model arrived at my office, I was really looking forward to testing it out. It has a similar same price as the G5 did when it first launched but the hardware inside has been given a bunch of updates […]
Read MoreGeForce Now is a great way to game on a handheld gaming PC, such as a Steam Deck. You can play games that aren’t available on that Linux-powered handheld. For example, Destiny 2. And usually you’ll save heaps of battery by streaming rather than playing locally. What’s not been so great is trying to install […]
Read MoreGray Zone Warfare is an extraction shooter with a lot to prove. Given that Escape From Tarkov seems to haverather publicly angered its fanbase over the previous weeks, it’s no surprise that this tactical FPS made an initial surge to the top of the Steam best sellers list upon its release, as disgruntled fans looked […]
Read MoreDesktop space is a common request from gamers that work and game in one place, but if you’re working with limited space or an awkward corner, expansion is not always easy. That’s where an L-shaped desk comes in, such as this Flexispot E7L Pro, which I’ve found simple enough to set-up and stuff into a […]
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If you’re buying a pre-built gaming PC, broadly speaking, you’re hoping to save time, resources and troubleshooting. For that to happen, whichever pre-built gaming PC you end up purchasing must be correctly assembled, securely shipped, and work as intended on arrival. Starforge Systems has sent me its Navigator Pro gaming PC for review, and it […]
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Anyone who has studied electrical engineering will know that with the right tools, know-how, and a lot of perseverance, it’s possible to design a basic CPU from scratch. It won’t be anything like today’s processors, of course, but what about GPUs? Surely they can’t be any different, yes? Well, one determined software engineer decided to […]
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Like millions of people around the world, I love coffee. In fact, just the thought of writing that made me go and make a mug. I also love computers and gaming, spending many hours engrossed in both of them. If only there were a way to combine all those passions into one handy system. Well, […]
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Reporting on the financial statements from multi-billion dollar companies isn’t our usual fare but when the company in question has a huge impact on the world of PC gaming, it’s worth paying attention to how well things are going. AMD’s revenue and operating income for the first quarter of 2024 have been announced and it’s […]
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In my humble opinion, the ATX standard is broken. The PCs we know and love have evolved so much over the last 30 years. Small revisions and additions to the standard aren’t meeting the needs and requirements of a 2024 era PC, to say nothing of the demands of a PC as we move towards—and […]
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Todd Howard’s been on the interview circuit around the hugely successful launch of Amazon’s Fallout TV series, which rapidly became the streaming platform’s biggest show since the Lord of the Rings and was almost immediately renewed for a second season. Those of us who’ve been playing the games for some time knew exactly what to […]
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RTX Remix, the tool created by Nvidia to help remaster video games, has been updated to include DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction. That means any mod built using the tool should be able to clean up untidy ray-traced effects in-game and hopefully make for prettier versions of classic PC games. RTX Remix effectively replaces large […]
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Lasers—pretty cool, eh? NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had previously figured out to use lasers to beam a video of Taters the cat through space to the Psyche spacecraft, which at the time was around 30 million kilometres away. For Americans and Brits, that’s really far away in miles. Today, however, JPL has figured out […]
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Andy Edser, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been testing: the best PC speakers and best racing wheels. Both immersive aspects of gaming, and both at their best when they’re putting you right in the middle of the experience. Car racing has always been of interest to me. Growing up in a family […]
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Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been testing: Not very much, actually! Well, a spot of cable-hiding tech by Asus and one of Gigabyte’s latest laptops, but I’ve mostly been testing out a new display panel colorimeter. It’s surprising how much your eyes deceive you when looking at a monitor. PCI Express […]
Read MoreHere I am genuinely curious as to what Noctua, a company that specialises in making fans, is cooking up. Over on the company’s official X account, the company has teased “something new is coming…” with a short teaser video showing what it might be. From that, it’s not entirely clear what we’re looking at, but […]
Read MoreBack in January 2021, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer unveiled Project Hazel, a “surgical N95 respirator” with—of course—RGB lighting. There was just one problem: The Zephyr, as it came to be known, wasn’t actually N95 rated at all, and that little oversight is going to cost the company more than $1.1 million. […]
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Dave James, once saw a laptop (Image credit: Future) This week I have been mostly: Playing around with one of the most ridiculous handhelds… which I still can’t help but like, and losing myself gazing lovingly at the Razer Blade 16’s glorious OLED screen. I’m a PC gamer, a tech obsessive, and probably a bit […]
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Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul on the Fallout TV show, who over the course of the series becomes a memorable and conflicted link between the world as-was and as it is in the present day. It’s a fantastic performance, which will be no surprise to those who’ve followed Goggins’ career, and while basking in the […]
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Having already spent over $15,000 on building the ultimate VR gaming set-up, one streamer has decided that the level of haptic feedback it offered simply wasn’t immersive enough. Cue an additional vest that replicates health damage in the form of electric shocks to the skin, to make sword hits, magic blasts, and dragon fire really […]
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Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake CPU architecture, aimed at the low-power mobile market, will be the first processor to sport the chip maker’s Battlemage graphics chip. Very few details about the updated design exist in the wild but some early benchmark results (via Videocardz) have come to light, and they look very promising. Lunar Lake will […]
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You might recall reports of Unreal-based games crashing when running on gaming PCs using high-end Intel processors toward the start of this year. As the problem was getting flagged up around the world, things were serious enough for Intel to investigate the problem formally. That’s still ongoing but Intel has made an early statement on […]
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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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