Most commented stories
• • AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X CPUs reviewed [296]
• • Asus launches Arez Radeons as AMD digs in against Nvidia's GPP [74]
• • Sega goes retro with the Mega Drive Mini [62]
• • Rumor: Intel partner docs add to eight-core Coffee Lake CPU chatter [47]

Hot forum threads
• • DYMT: Imi's Legacy
• • LG 27UD59P-B 4K, IPS, FreeSync on sale for $275
• • Sports heroes
• • Xbox One X

The supercomputing-related announcements are coming fast and thick today, and we have one truly novel entry in the bunch, as Intel formally unveils its first...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers

When Microsoft released DirectX 11 as part of Windows 7, it back-ported the API to the previous version of the OS. That may not...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming Operating systems

Intel's next-generation Haswell CPU is due out next year, and details are trickling out about its supporting Lynx Point chipset. According to a series...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

In August, AMD revealed the first nitty gritty details about Steamroller, the next version of its Bulldozer microarchitecture. Steamroller promises improvements in not...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Late yesterday, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang got on the phone to talk to stockholders and journalists about the company's latest quarterly results. During the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Maybe it's the sheer popularity of the firm's Tegra 3 chips. Maybe it's...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

Howdy, folks. I've been working on benchmarking some new games with the latest video cards, a task that requires me to learn how to...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming The Tech Report

Mechanical keyboards typically come in two flavors: full-sized designs and "tenkeyless" ones that ditch the numpad. Cooler Master makes both varieties, and now it's...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

The third-quarter x86 processor market share numbers are in, and they're not good for AMD. According to Mercury Research data quoted by PC...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

As the holiday shopping rush looms, AMD has quietly adjusted prices for some of its lower-end Athlon II and A-series desktop processors. The company's

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

These are certainly interesting times in the tech industry, not least because of the success of chip firms who license their IP for use by...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Personal tech

Game bundles are all the rage this year. In August, Nvidia offered Borderlands 2 with its GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card. AMD

Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming

Let the pandering to Linux gamers begin! Valve has just kicked off the Steam for Linux beta, bringing the Steam client, a free-to-play version...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix

Microsoft's family of Surface tablets may grow to include a 7" model tailored...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Gaming

Over the past several years, Apple has spent a sizable chunk of change to bring iDevice chip development in-house. We've long heard rumblings that...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mac

As expected, AMD has rolled out a new lineup of Opteron processors based on its eight-way Piledriver chip. This is the same basic 32-nm silicon...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

Remember Descent? The first-person shooter spawned a couple of sequels, but the last one came out way back in 2000. We haven't really...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

You know Minecraft has hit the big time when it's the most popular game on Xbox Live, ahead of even the Call of Duty...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming