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Cougar's Phontum gaming headset brings a dose of audiophile style to a price point usually populated by generic plastic cans. We put the Phontum's...

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia Gaming

Corsair's K63 Wireless keyboard, Dark Core RGB SE mouse, MM1000 mouse pad, and K63 Wireless Gaming Lapboard promise a seamless transition from gaming at a...

Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices Gaming

Intel's NUC8i7HVK, code-named Hades Canyon, is the first desktop system with the blue team's blend of Kaby Lake CPU cores and Radeon graphics on one...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems Gaming

Corsair's Hydro GFX GTX 1080 Ti gives builders a turn-key crack at the world of extreme graphics cooling by putting a 120-mm closed-loop liquid unit...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming

AMD's Ryzen 5 CPUs are here. In part one of our review, we go Inside the Second to see whether the Ryzen 5 1600X and...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Gaming

It's been five years since Deus Ex: Human Revolution brought the classic series back with a bang. Can Mankind Divided fill its predecessor's rather large...

Type: Feature article Tags: Gaming

Aorus' X3 Plus v5 laptop packs eight threads of Skylake processing power and a GeForce GTX 970M graphics card into a 14" chassis. We put...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Mobile computing Gaming

Dakka! Dakka dakka dakka! That, my friends, is the most beautiful sound in the universe. Well, second best, perhaps, after the dulcet tones of...

Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming Software

Fable Legends is one of the first games to make use of DirectX 12, and it produces some truly sumptuous visuals. Here's a look...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming

Nvidia has finally created the set-top box we all asked for when it launched the Shield Portable. We put it to the test to see...

Type: Feature article Tags: Gaming Game consoles

AMD's FreeSync is here, personified in BenQ's XL2730Z monitor. We've gone deep into the display's performance and smoothness, with direct comparisons to G-Sync using...

Type: Feature article Tags: Displays Gaming

EVGA has long been known for its GPUs, but the company is expanding into gaming peripherals, too. We put the company's Torq X5 and X10...

Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices Gaming

It seems like one can't swing a bag of dead SSDs these days without hitting a graphics card based on Nvidia's Maxwell GPU, and...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

Today, we're turning our attention to BenQ's XL2420G, a 24" G-Sync monitor that's currently selling for about $580 at Newegg. This display is a little...

Type: Feature article Tags: Displays Gaming

Most of the world gets a variant of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 based on the familiar Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 system-on-a-chip (SoC). In Samsung's home country...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech

Everyone seems to be trying to crack PC gaming in the living room lately, and Razer has just thrown its hat into the ring...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Input devices Game consoles

Yes, we've finally focused our full attention on reviewing a smartphone. What better place to start than the new iPhones?

Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

The next installment in Sid Meier's Civilization series, Civilization: Beyond Earth, comes out tomorrow. The folks at AMD have been working with its developer, Firaxis, to...

Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics Gaming