Author: [email protected] (Dave James)
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Asus ROG Azoth gaming keyboard review
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[ad_1] The Asus ROG Azoth is the Taiwanese tech giant’s first real enthusiast gaming keyboard. And, honestly, it’s a doozy. That’s a technical term which translates as a quality keeb that ticks all the boxes, then draws in some more at the bottom of the list and ticks those off, too. Asus is no stranger…
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PC Gamer’s Best of CES 2023 awards
[ad_1] The Consumer Electronics Show of 2023 is over, the cleaners are in sweeping up lanyards, USB sticks, and free pens, and we’re handing out our Best of CES 2023 awards like so much sweet, sweet candy. It’s been an interesting year on the PC side, with a typical focus on new generations of laptop…
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PNY RTX 4080 XLR8 Verto review
[ad_1] Even by the portly standards of Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Founders Edition (opens in new tab), the PNY RTX 4080 XLR8 is a damned unit. He chomnk. He’s also a supremely powerful graphics card capable of regularly outpacing the best of both Nvidia’s last generation of GPUs, the RTX 3090 Ti, as well as AMD’s…
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Shadow Cloud Computing Power Upgrade review
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[ad_1] Before Christmas and Covid rudely interrupted my 2022 work flow I was testing the Power Upgrade of Shadow’s streamed PC service (opens in new tab). And I really wanted it to be great. I’ve been a long-time fan of the French company’s take on streaming, especially the service’s more libertarian leanings, and regularly used…
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What we want to see from PC gaming hardware in 2023
[ad_1] It’s a clean slate, a fresh start, a new year. Begone 2022, we won’t miss you. It’s now time to look ahead to the next 12 months and what technological delights might await us. And what might those be? We’ve got CES 2023 coming up in the next few weeks, which will set out…
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2022: The best gear of year
[ad_1] As the wan sun fades on this bleak year of 2022 we are given to look back and think about all we have to be grateful for. And in PC gaming tech terms that means we’re looking at all the gaming gear released over the past 12 months to pick our favourite tech in…
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After a terrible 2021 for hardware, was 2022 really any better?
[ad_1] It’s only natural that at the end of a long year you end up looking backwards. We’ve written a lot of tech news this year—weird, wonderful, and Gabe-y (opens in new tab)—and a monstrous number of hardware reviews (opens in new tab), too. But it’s a piece I published on the very first day…
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2022: In the blandest year for PC gaming hardware only Valve took a risk
[ad_1] There’s a new colour for PC gaming hardware in the year 2022. Black is out, RGB is so passé, and, sorry Mollie, it ain’t pink either (opens in new tab). No, the new colour is beige. Just plain, boring, faceplant-my-keyboard dull beige. That’s what the biggest PC gaming companies have introduced in this tedious…
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2022
[ad_1] Now the silicon drought is more or less over (for the time being) being a DIY PC gamer is back on the menu. Yes, we no longer have to rely on pre-built systems for our gaming PC jollies, we can actually go back to the good old days of poring over the specs sheets…
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All the PC Gamer hardware reviews from 2022
[ad_1] It’s been an interesting year for PC gaming hardware. After a supply shortage that spiked both demand and pricing we’ve had a slew of new goodies hitting our test labs, and maybe even your desktops. Though maybe it’s not been the most exciting year. We’ve had both the new graphics card architectures from AMD and…