Considering how often I’ve had to write about tariffs in the last few months, it’s no surprise that there’s a wave of lovingly retro hardware coming out of Computex 2025. Like SilverStone, MSI is hopping…
Fan Control is good for more than just fans Over two-plus decades of PC building and tech writing, I’ve used many different fan controllers ranging from classic software like SpeedFan to hardware knobs and dials.…
Go to CES if you want to see new TVs, and go to Mobile World Congress if you want to see new phones. But if you want to see the newest in the real geek…
Around Christmas time, Ventiva launched its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE), the latest in what has been an unexpectedly disappointing industry of fanless cooling solutions for laptops. But with Ventiva, there’s a key difference: It has…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros High-quality workmanship and aluminum top plate Kailh-Box V2 Red switch with a pleasant typing feel Hot-swap function and stable stabilizer design Comprehensive sound insulation for quieter typing Three connection…
Around Christmas time, Ventiva launched its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE), the latest in what has been an unexpectedly disappointing industry of fanless cooling solutions for laptops. But with Ventiva, there’s a key difference: It has…
For the last couple of years, Cooler Master has been hauling around the Shark X PC—a PC that looks like a shark—to tech expos and gaming events. If you’ve been waiting for your chance to…
A startup, Phononic, says that it has a new twist on what sounds like a Peltier cooler, using electrical energy to cool a processor in a PC or a data center. Phononic announced the Hex…
Noctua—a darling of the home PC builder community for its high-quality cooling parts and understated brown aesthetics—has a new flagship CPU cooler. The Austrian company revised its dual-fan NH-D15 design with a collection of engineering…
AI is being shoved into everything now, from laptops to kitchen appliances to celebrity gossip news. (No, none of that is an exaggeration.) The term is so ubiquitous that it’s fast becoming meaningless, just like…