Author: [email protected] (Dave James)

[ad_1] From the looks of this new SSD tower cooler, I’m a little scared about just how toasty the new PCIe 5.0 SSDs are going to get once AMD’s Zen 4 (opens in new tab) and Intel’s Raptor Lake (opens in new tab) platforms launch. If they need this sort of cooling we’re going to…

[ad_1] Valve Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang, has explained the rationale behind a recent change to the handheld gaming PC’s storage options, promising that the team has “determined that there is no impact to performance between the two models” of SSD now being used. HardwareLuxx brought to light that the Steam Deck’s 256GB and 512GB…

[ad_1] Intel’s first discrete graphics card, the Arc A380, has been released. In China, exclusively. That’s a bit of a shame, but it has at least allowed Intel to stick to its aim of getting the discrete Arc GPUs released early this year. Even if it is just in a single region, and only via…

[ad_1] The best 4K gaming monitors give you incredibly detailed images that make it hard to go back to anything less. Games look stunning at high resolution and, if you have the graphics card to run it, a 4K monitor will make everything look fantastic. A 4K monitor is how you can show off how…

[ad_1] I’m not above a little derivative foolishness of a bleak monday morning. And so I asked the AI painter de jour, DALL-E mini (opens in new tab), to help visualise what an 800W RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) might look like should the green team go all out. I think DALL-E has actually…

[ad_1] “Please don’t do this,” has been the stance of Valve Steam Deck (opens in new tab) designer, Lawrence Yang, regarding an SSD mod that came to light recently. We reported on the mod itself last week (opens in new tab), which saw one Deck owner (Decker?) replace the original 2230-size SSD with a more…

[ad_1] AMD’s product technology architect, Sam Naffziger, has suggested that expecting the upcoming chiplet-based RDNA 3 graphics cards (opens in new tab) to be using a Ryzen-like design would be “a reasonable inference.” Given that he knows exactly what that RDNA 3 design is like, and isn’t really allowed to give explicit details, this feels…

[ad_1] It’s not been easy work finding the best graphics card in stock lately, but things are finally looking up. From the ultra high-end frame rate machines to slimmer price-to-performance champions, all manner of graphics card is now approaching MSRP again. Finally. The best graphics card for PC gaming is capable of hitting silky-smooth frame…

[ad_1] There’s a reason we all feel some level of guilt and/or shame when we wake up after a night of heavy drinking. The depressant nature of alcohol means that even though you may have had an enjoyable time, and experienced an increased level of happiness the night before, your reserve of ‘happy chemicals’ is…