PNY’s new dual USB-A/C flash drive hits an extreme 1,000 MB/s
Flash drives are kind of dull as a topic, the modern descendant of floppy disks and burnable CDs. But when you need a good one, you really need a good one—and PNY’s latest are worth…
Michael Crider
Michael Crider
Air vs. liquid cooling for CPUs: We debated it with Gear Seekers
You need to cool your PC’s processor no matter what, but you can do so in different ways—with a heatsink and one or more fans for old-school air cooling, or with an AIO liquid-cooled setup…
Is now the worst time ever to be a PC gamer? We asked Gamers Nexus
Steve and the other members of the Gamers Nexus team are a pretty knowledgeable bunch. They’re also unafraid to pull their punches when covering the PC industry, as demonstrated by some excellent investigations. So at…
I want this 80s-inspired, retro-futurist PC battlestation SO BAD DUDE
I check out the /r/Battlestations subreddit on a regular basis. That’s right, weirdos, I’m looking at your meticulous, lovingly lighted home offices and PC gaming desks, analyzing your choices for hardware and style, because I’m…
Get Samsung’s massive ultrawide OLED gaming monitor for 46% off
If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get the biggest, most ridiculous OLED gaming monitor for the lowest possible price, this might be it. Right now, you can get an “open-box” 49-inch ultrawide OLED…
This modded RTX 5070 graphics card hides a full-blown mini PC within
Graphics cards are getting so big that they’re bigger than some computers now. A tired joke, perhaps, but it’s absolutely true. There’s plenty of room inside a modern desktop GPU (at least in terms of…
Arm says Windows game compatibility is up to developers
Arm-powered Windows devices, based almost entirely on the Qualcomm Snapdragon family of processors so far, are pretty neat. They can be thinner and lighter than Intel- and AMD-based setups, and they last considerably longer on…
The ROG Xbox Ally is ashamed of Windows
Windows 11 goes gamer mode Scratch the surface of the new Xbox Ally and you’ll see it’s running Windows, which comes with as many problems as it solves (or more). Now that we have the…
YouTube hits back at ad blockers, again
YouTube has a lot of ads. So many, in fact, that you might wonder if owner Google is using the prevalence and annoyance of advertising to not-so-subtly get people paying for YouTube Premium. Lots of…
The ROG Xbox Ally is Microsoft’s big swing for PC gaming handhelds
We’ve seen it teased, we’ve seen it leaked, but the first “portable Xbox” (those quotes are doing a lot of work, yes) was revealed last night during Microsoft’s latest Xbox gaming showcase. As expected, it’s…