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Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front
News Unified cores, the return of HyperThreading, and one socket across three generations.
If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap
News The RAMpocalypse is the biggest reason for this, of course, but it's only part of the whole problem.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock
News It's not an issue exclusive to Valve's hardware, but at the same time, it's something that shouldn't really exist
The latest 100% Chinese-made GPU may still lag behind an RTX 3060 but it could be the start of something big in graphics cards
News One giant leap for Lisuan, one small step for the GPU market.
You deserve the greatest so treat yourself with this RTX 5080 Lenovo Legion, the best high-performance gaming laptop we've tested
Deal At $2,600, it's mightily expensive, but perfection never comes cheap.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
News For me, it's a vision of hell.
Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well
News Who's upgrading to AM5 these days when DDR5 is so stupidly expensive?
'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs
News Linux's creator isn't against the use of AI tools, he's just tired of folks using them and then doing nothing with what they've discovered
Overclockers squeeze a record-topping 9.2 GHz out of a 14900KF, just 800 MHz shy of the ten gigs that Intel promised us all those years ago
News But since it's just 1% faster than the previous record, that lofty goal remains just as elusive as ever.
'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much
News Less hot snakes, more hot wheels, please Xbox. Sorry, XBOX.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
We're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary
News It might just be a one-off, though.
Hot on the heels of Apple's iPhone-in-a-laptop, Google and Intel have teamed up to give us the Googlebook
News No word on the hardware yet, but Panther or Wildcat Lake are the most likely options.
Intel's 270K Plus is worthy of being picked by Thermal Grizzly as a delidded option, and it's even cheaper than a stock 285K
News One for the serious clockers only but I still kinda want one.
Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of
News All that glitters is not gold. Or copper, for that matter.
This gaming PC isn't just the cheapest RTX 5080 rig I've seen in ages, it's also packing the best midrange processor around
Deal $2,300 is a lot of money, of course, but you're getting a lot of PC here.
Even if you have an RTX 5090, I don't recommend using ray tracing in Forza Horizon 6. Not because of the performance hit, simply because it's just not worth using
News If I'm going to burn off some fps, then give my eyes something to go dizzy over.
Forza Horizon 6 PC performance analysis: Heavy on your CPU, with uninspiring ray tracing, but at least it all runs very nicely
Flying forza frames From handhelds to old gaming PCs, pretty much anything will run the new Forza.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review
Score: 75% It's the most powerful gaming CPU money can buy, but you really shouldn't.
For one day only, this super-speedy external SSD has nearly 50% hacked off its RAMpocalypse price
Deal The perfect way to add more storage to your gaming laptop.
ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming
News How long before all desktop PCs with NPUs can use it is what I want to know.
