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Core concernsWhen it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
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NewsEurope's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
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NewsIntel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
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NewsSatellite snaps Starlink passing underneath while taking candid shots of Chinese airbase: 'a very rare instance, but not impossible!'
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News'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt
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NewsAI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model
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Borderline forkedI've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
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newsThese stunning new Xbox Wireless Controllers use transparencies and reflections to create a shattered depth visage
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Score: 92%GameSir G7 Pro Tri-Mode review
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GuideHow to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth
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NewsAsus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast
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newsGameSir's G7 Pro has removable faceplates, TMR sticks, and 1000 Hz polling rate for under $80
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newsThe sequel to the best high-end Hall effect controller just dropped with Razer's esports focussed Wolverine V3 Pro 8k PC
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newsThis retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD
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PSPadHow to use the PS5 controller on PC
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NewsI don't think they should make this
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NewsHyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found
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News'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
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NewsHighly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
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NewsAMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
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Score: 67%MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review
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NewsAsus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler
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WhooshAir coolers are still cool
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Score: 88%Tryx Panorama SE ARGB 360 review
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NewsIf you've ever wondered if Japanese blossom-scented thermal paste in a weeb-inspired applicator is worth using, we have at long last the scientific answer to the greatest quandary of our time
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newsRazer upgrades its kitty eared headsets with a fancy wireless Kraken Kitty V3 Pro and a surprisingly affordable Kraken Kitty X
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Score: 76%Audeze LCD-S20 Closed-back review
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Score: 87%Creative Stage Pro soundbar and subwoofer review
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Cut it outActive noise cancellation is the latest trend for gaming headsets: here's how a different design philosophy could do much better than half-baked ANC
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NewsMicrosoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
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newsGet your Master Balls ready folks, the Gengar Razer Kitty Kraken V2 headset is finally availble outside of Asia
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newsSony has launched a line of pro peripherals aimed at PC gamers with big budgets
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NewsHyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
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NewsI'm genuinely excited to check out Beyerdynamic's first 2.4 GHz wireless gaming headsets, but they'll only be available in Canada and the EU for now
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Score: 83%LiberNovo Omni gaming chair review
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Score: 55%Flexispot OC3/BS3 review
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Prime DayOne of the best gaming chairs has just dropped to its lowest ever price at $147: Corsair's TC100 is what Prime Day deals are all about
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If I needed a gaming chair right now, our favorite budget Corsair choice would be my pick now that it's less than $200
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Take a seatBest gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
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Score: 79%Razer Iskur V2 X review
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Couch potatoCouchmaster Cycon3 review
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Ergo'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs
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Ow.AndaSeat Novis gaming chair review
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LuxuriousGrovemade desk review
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Take a standAs a standing desk connoisseur, I'm happy to crown our new best budget and compact motorized gaming desks
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Top DesksBest gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
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Score: 85%Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review
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Score: 82%Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
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NewsThere's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
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ALL THE SPACEIkea Utespelare desk review
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Rising RGBBlacklyte Atlas review
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Score: 68%Naya Create review
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NewsGlorious is bringing an actually customisable gaming keyboard to the 'boring entry-level market'
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Quick digitsBest Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
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DealWe just crowned this the best looking Hall effect keyboard, and it's currently 50% off and its lowest price ever by a huge margin
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Score: 74%Asus ROG Falcata
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newsRazer's esports keyboard goes low-profile with its latest Blackwidow V4
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NewsRazer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
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Sound adviceI've been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I've found none of them are just right
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newsThis futuristic keyboard from the past and some street stylin' peripherals are the result of this latest gaming hardware collab
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Score: 79%Acer Predator Helios 18 AI gaming laptop review
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DealThis Gigabyte RTX 5060 gaming laptop looks like a little budget ripper for just over $1,000, and it even comes with the correct amount of RAM
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DealsBest cheap gaming laptop deals
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DealLenovo's fabulous carbon-fiber and magnesium Thinkpad laptop with an RTX 4090 is on sale at 45% off and could be the best gaming portable deal this side of Black Friday 2025
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newsAcer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
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Go mobileBest graphics card for laptops in 2025: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
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NewsThis Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
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NewsA laptop brand I've never heard of beat Razer's Project Valerie to the market with a three-screen laptop
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DealFor under $1,500, I'd snap up this OLED-equipped RTX 5070 gaming laptop in a heartbeat
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NewsThe world's first 'true 8K' ultra-wideband gaming mouse is here, complete with a glowing dongle that's supposedly less prone to unwanted interference
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DealA gaming mouse and streamer's best friend in one: the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE is only $80 right now—a $60 saving
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Score: 89%Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE review
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NewsNew Logitech leak points to an MX Master 4 with haptic feedback and I think it could actually be useful
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Score: 66%SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review
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NewsThis undetectable AI-powered aimbot physically moves the mouse pad to cheat in Valorant, an invention so unholy I demand it be cast down to the depths of hell where it belongs
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SnekI've just anointed the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro as our new best gaming mouse because... well, it's simply better than the rest in almost every conceivable way
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PinpointBest gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
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UnboundBest wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
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NewsI bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too
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DealsBest cheap gaming monitor deals today
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newsAfter 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'
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DealIf you're in need of a 1440p ultrawide gaming monitor, this Gigabyte deal is perfect at $250 and would look a little too good in my setup
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NewsAntGamer is releasing a 1,000 Hz gaming monitor next year, with a helping hand from AMD, though the chances are you really don't need it
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How many Hz?I am officially elderly because the new best budget 1440p monitor is better than my own, and I was very proud of it once upon a time
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Eye candyBest gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
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Score: 57%Corsair Xeneon Edge review
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NewsAfter running an OLED monitor for 533 days, seven hours, and 22 minutes straight, MSI claims the effects of burn-in on its displays are 'basically none'
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NewsOne lucky Redditor has bagged a second-hand $8,000 RTX 3080 Ti Threadripper PC for a mere $32
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Build itI've taken a proper bargain of a case from Thermaltake and built a gorgeous white PC with it
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DealIt's not every day I can recommend such a decent high-end gaming PC for well under $2,000 like this RTX 5070 Ti iBuyPower Y40 Pro
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dealBest cheap gaming PC deals
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DealUnless my eyes have been cheated by some spell, this is the cheapest RTX 5090 gaming PC with a 9800X3D I can find right now
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NewsValve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues
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DIYBest gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
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Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11
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NewsHP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried
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NewsUpgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
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DealBelieve it or not, GPU prices have been decreasing of late and here are four graphics cards you can buy for under their MSRP
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Pixel pushersCheap graphics card deals this week
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Slayer StreamingI've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble
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newsAMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at 'any sort of AI workload' and we're praying that rubs off on the company's gaming graphics cards
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newsXFX says its 'V3' Radeon RX 9060 XT GPUs with Samsung GDDR6 run much cooler and quieter than previous models with SK Hynix memory
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NewsIntel reshuffle puts engineering and 'a new custom silicon business' in the spotlight but also ends a 30-year career at Intel for Product CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus
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NewsPackaging for Intel's high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I'm not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good
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NewsThe latest AMD Adrenalin driver lets you turn FSR 4 on in a bunch more games but OptiScaler might still come in handy for older titles
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NewsWith vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
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NewsGet those Steam Decks and Legion Go S handhelds updated because Valve's just released a metric ton of fixes in the latest client
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Let me hold UI'm already dreaming about the Steam Deck 2, and the upgrade at the top of my wishlist is a sleeker, lighter form factor
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NewsFill your entire field of vision with this ridiculous ultrawide handheld gaming PC
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NewsThis 3D-printed mini arcade cabinet turns the humble Lenovo Legion Go into a bartop Street Fighter machine
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NewsGPD shows how its Strix Halo handheld gaming PC battery fits in your pocket, but I'm still not convinced it's portable enough
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NewsI got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8
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NewsThe ROG Xbox Ally borrows a heck of a lot from the Steam Deck, proving that the old gated console concept is a thing of the past
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News'This is the Ally 2, 100%': Asus says the ROG Xbox Ally is a bona fide successor to the first two handhelds, but the originals will still get new Xbox features
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Win or Bin?I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
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Prime DayI own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales
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Prime DayI may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal
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Light it up!The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
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As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday
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DealI find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday
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ReactiveNanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review
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Sync'dGovee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
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ScriptedElgato Light Strip Pro review
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NewsAsus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh
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NewsOverclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
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NewsTeam Group joins the mega memory kit clan, launching a set of 256 GB DDR5-6000 for gamers and creators who just never have enough RAM
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Score: 70%Crucial 128 GB DDR5-6400 CUDIMM review
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Prime DayMS Flight Sim 24 is the canary in the coal mine for RAM requirements, so I'm eyeballing these Prime Day deals on 64 GB kits for my next upgrade
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Prime DayI don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks
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Prime DayOnce you're above a certain speed, it's all about CAS latency with your RAM and there are my top early Prime Day picks so far
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ComputexWill 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
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DynamicBest RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
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AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model
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NewsTired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
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NewsMSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
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Best MoboBest gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
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NewsIf you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability
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Score: 79%NZXT N7 Z890 review
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Score: 80%NZXT N9 X870E review
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Score: 84%NZXT N9 Z890 review
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Budget steelThis B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
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Borderline forked
I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
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Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
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Score: 72%Asus ProArt Case PA401 review
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