Google’s Bard AI officially becomes Gemini
If you asked a hundred people on the street what Google’s generative artificial intelligence product is called, I’m betting that 98 of them wouldn’t know, unless that street happens to be in San Jose. It’s…
Michael Crider
Michael Crider
Asus, MSI add extra burn-in warranty coverage for OLED monitors
After we spent years looking at televisions, smartphones, and even laptops with envy, OLED panels are finally starting to show up on desktop monitor panels. Well, they are if you have a lot of disposable…
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT hits $699, its lowest price yet
Between new entries on the low end and competition heating up on the high end, it’s a good time to be in the market for a graphics card upgrade. (Not as good a time as…
The latest Nvidia driver is hiding an HDR surprise
High dynamic range can add a new dimension of color and immersion to PC gaming, but only if both the hardware and software actually support it. The latter is becoming a lot more common —…
Best mechanical keyboards 2024: Top picks for every need
Mechanical keyboards have been around almost as long as personal computers, and the basic switch technology we’re still using first popped up in the 1980s. But it’s not an exaggeration to say that mechanical boards…
Palit made a silent version of the RTX 3050 6GB
It doesn’t use a 25-pound block of solid copper, but a variant of the brand new 6GB version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 budget card can make do without an active cooling system just the same.…
Best wireless gaming keyboards 2024: Best overall, best 60% and more
Way back when the world was new, and “ray tracing” was something that only happened in oceanographic illustrations, you needed a wired keyboard to play PC games. Otherwise the old-fashioned wireless connections could lag or…
Nvidia’s $169 GeForce RTX 3050 6GB might be the new budget GPU king
Graphics cards are too expensive. I don’t think anyone would seriously disagree with me there — to get the same level of performance relative to where the industry was ten years ago, you’re looking at…
Should PC gamers care about frames per second?
It’s been a little over a year since Gordon went head-to-head with Brian Troh of BPSCustoms to talk about whether or not performance matters in PC building and gaming. Obviously that’s a loaded question (hey,…
Razer Huntsman V3 keyboard review: Maximum analog customization
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent software customization Great controls for analog input Easy layout swapping Cons Expensive Typing is loud and wobbly Hard wrist rest Our Verdict The Hunstman V3 is the keyboard…