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PCB prices have risen by up to 40% due to war in Iran, according to Reuters' industry sources
News More shortages, more price hikes, more of the same in 2026.
I'm struggling to decide between these three high-end gaming PCs for under $2,000
Deal With options for both AMD and Nvidia rigs.
White House claim that China is 'engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems' called 'pure slander' by Chinese embassy
News A memo seen by the Financial Times places the blame on "foreign entities, principally based in China."
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
Portable PC PC gaming is officially portable now, and these handheld gaming PCs are the best around.
'Hardcore PC enthusiasts are significantly underestimating the importance of software to the PC experience, like really, really seriously,' says Intel Enthusiast VP
News Robert Hallock suggests up to 30% of gaming performance can be "hidden" behind CPU optimisations.
Maybe it really is the year of Linux, as Framework claims more people are buying Ubuntu versions of its new laptop than Windows options
News It's also "selling far above our forecast" in general.
YouTuber goes 'invisible' to America's army of cameras with his $2,000+ anti-surveillance device
News Yes, it is basically just a TV strapped to his back.
Tesla to use Intel 14A for AI chips as Musk says it will be 'ready for prime time' when the multi-billion dollar Terafab project scales up
News Another win for Intel.
'Increasingly the distinction between bots and humans is moot' says one of the biggest web-infrastructure companies
News Cloudflare says we need to move past the bots vs humans debate as "there are wanted bots and there are unwanted humans."
A new version of one of my all-time favourite mouse shapes just launched and it could be perfect for palm and relaxed claw grippers
News The Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Medium is here.
I just found out the creator of Windows Task Manager accidentally left his phone number inside the app
News That's one heck of a self-doxx.
OpenAI's hilarious new patent diagrams have 'HBM stacked up like rice cakes'
News Would you expect any less from OpenAI during a memory shortage?
Pragmata is yet another launch day fail for Intel's GPUs, but its quick response to game issues shows it's still working hard for gamers
News The dad sim is back on the table for Intel GPUs.
Razer has just announced the world's thinnest glass mouse pad and it looks gorgeous
News I'm here for it, but it all depends on that glide.
Tim Cook hands over Apple's $4 trillion reins to 'the perfect person for the job', hardware engineering SVP John Ternus
News Ternus has led Apple's hardware engineering since 2021.
'A performance tool that requires a graduate seminar before breakfast has already lost the room': Why Windows Task Manager looks like it's getting CPU usage wrong
News There's more to CPU utilisation calculations than at first meet the eye.
AMD docs hint that multi frame gen might finally be coming to Radeon GPUs
News Better late than never.
Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research
News It could mean half the performance cost of path tracing.
Oh, how times have changed. I'd now buy an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with 32 GB RAM over an RTX 5070 PC with just 16 GB any day of the week in the RAMpocalypse
Deal This machine will also get you the 16 GB version of the Nvidia GPU, too.
Exclusive deal: Get Surfshark's unlimited VPN connections for over two years at just $1.78 per month
Deal Surfshark was already cheap, but every little helps.
The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse
Vibin' Viper Ultralight shells and analogue clicks are great, but so is build quality.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.
