Tuesday deals: a Core i5-8600K combo deal, cheap SSDs, and more Howdy, folks. We've just reviewed the Samsung 970 EVO solid-state drive and found it worthy of a TR Recommended award. SSD prices are slowly-but-steadily... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Power Storage Memory |
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PSA: Satellite Reign is free today at the Humble Store It's Friday, gerbils, and some of you probably have plans this weekend. Others might be looking for something to do, so why not play Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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EK Fluid Gaming line offers turn-key liquid-cooled PCs Building a basic computer these days is as easy as it's ever been. Building a custom-cooled high-end gaming system is a bigger challenge than many... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming |
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Thermaltake's Iris Optical gaming mouse polls at 2 KHz Dragging windows around or even simply moving the mouse pointer feels smoother and clearer on a high-refresh display. However, refresh rate is only one piece... Type: News story Tags: Input devices |
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Acer Predator Orion 9000 locks and loads with GTX 1080 Tis The last time we wrote about Acer's Predator Orion 9000 gaming desktop line was when the company showed off prototype units in Berlin... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming |
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G.Skill's Trident Z RGB and Sniper X kits for AMD get even faster As Jeff remarked in his review, second-generation Ryzen parts more readily support speedy memory than their predecessors. That's a good thing, because system performance... Type: News story Tags: Memory |
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AOC AG322QC4 boasts FreeSync 2 and DisplayHDR 400 certificates When it rains, it pours. Today, the drops from the sky take the form of new displays conforming to AMD's FreeSync 2 adaptive-refresh-rate specifications.... Type: News story Tags: Displays Gaming |
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MSI updates its gaming desktops with eighth-generation Core power When it comes to desktop computers, most gerbils have a strong preference for rolling their own from components rather than buying something off the shelf... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Gaming |
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Tuesday deals: a WD Black 512 GB for $170 and more Finally! Folks, this week I'm finally getting some sunshine! Sure, it's going to be miserable in the weekend, which is certainly not ideal, but... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Mobile computing |
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![]() 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 |
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Sega goes retro with the Mega Drive Mini Were you a Ninten-nerd or a Gene-goob? Sega has been out of the gaming hardware market since 2001, but back when I was in school... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles |
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HP launches the wallet-friendly Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690 and 790 As part of its recent wave of fresh offerings, HP released a couple of new gaming desktops with remarkably-understated styling that should appeal to gerbils... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming |
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AT&T touts high throughput and low latency in its 5G trials Just as it seems like flagship phone features and performance have pretty much plateaued and spec bumps keep shrinking, AT&T says it will have... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Networking |
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HP Pavilion Gaming 32 HDR display shines bright for $449 We reported earlier on HP's addition to the mainstream gaming laptop market with the Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15 refresh. The company also says that... Type: News story Tags: Displays Gaming |
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HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15 shows off new styling and new CPUs Lately, HP's efforts at wooing gamers looking for portable power have been mostly limited to the company's high-end Omen lineup. The PC maker is... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Gaming |
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![]() Civilization VI's new Rise and Fall expansion has been out for a few weeks. Given the popularity of the previous games, we figure we should... Type: Feature article Tags: Gaming |
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ROG Strix GL503 and GL703 laptops get eighth-gen Core power We just wrote about new gaming laptops from Asus featuring Intel's latest eighth-generation Core mobile processors last week. The mega-manufacturer also let loose Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Gaming |
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Dell EMC and Fujitsu will put Intel FPGA accelerator cards in turn-key servers GPUs aren't the only kinds of compute accelerators finding their way into servers these days. Field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, help bridge the gap between... Type: News story Tags: Servers |
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Windows 10 update has Spectre fixes for Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake | 9 |
Gaming bench status update: I'm collecting a whole new set of numbers out of caution because of some weird deltas I'm observing upon retesting some co... | +44 |