Corsair has launched its latest Hydro X series iCUE LINK XH405i RGB custom open-loop water cooling kits, replacing the older XH305i kits from 2020. The new kits feature Corsair’s latest XD5 RGB ELITE pump and reservoir, the XC7 RGB ELITE CPU waterblock, three QX120 RGB fans, and a 360mm radiator. The pump, waterblock, and fans…
We’ve been hearing more about Intel’s Arrow Lake processors – and Lunar Lake – from leaker Moore’s Law is Dead, and while there are a lot of positives to take from all this, don’t get carried away with the notion that Team Blue is going to romp home with an easy win against AMD in…
Asus this week has become the latest PC video card manufacturer to announce a sub-75W video card based on NVIDIA’s recently-released low-power GeForce RTX 3050 6GB design. And going one step further for small form factor PC owners, Asus has used NVIDIA’s low-power GPU configuration to produce a half-height video card that can fit into…
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Steam Deck’s mobile CPU is well known for its incredible efficiency but it seems that AMD’s latest mobile processor, the Ryzen 7 8840U, finally has it beat.One of the most impressive factors concerning the Steam Deck is how it can deliver excellent performance at a 10W power limit, which other portable PC gaming handhelds like…
AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors mark the latest additions to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market, a segment AMD wants to bring back to the mainstream. Based on AMD’s proven Zen 4 architecture and built on TSMC’s 5nm process, both of AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 lineups – Pro and non-Pro – are designed to bring more cores…
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In our series of holiday buyer’s guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended power supplies list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2023 Now that you’ve picked out your CPU, it’s time to start picking out the rest of your system…
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Numbers in graphs reflect MSRP. As the first quarter of 2024 is already well underway, there’s not been much in the way of…
It is possible to repurpose one of Nvidia’s dedicated crypto mining GPUs into a gaming graphics card, but you really shouldn’t, as the adventures of an intrepid modder clearly illustrate.VideoCardz reported this tale of the conversion of an MSI CMP 50HX graphics card into a gaming model by Spanish YouTuber Sfdx Show (originally highlighted by…
Over the last couple of days, numerous reports have revealed that Intel’s recently announced Meteor Lake SoC, primarily a mobile platform, would be coming to desktop PCs. Intel has further clarified that while their Meteor Lake processors will be featured in desktop systems next year, they won’t power traditional socketed desktop PCs. Instead, these CPUs, primarily…
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In what is to be the last of Intel’s processor families to use the well-established Core i9, i7, i5, and i3 naming scheme, Intel has released its 14th Generation Core series of desktop processors, aptly codenamed Raptor Lake Refresh (RPL-R). Building upon the already laid foundations of the 13th Gen Core series family, Intel has…
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