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CES 2025 set up an old-fashioned graphics card battle between Nvidia and AMD, even if the latter showed up a little late. We know when the new RTX 50 series GPUs will debut (at the end of January) and we now know when AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT car

AMD’s X3D series of CPUs with game-boosting cache has quickly become the go-to choice for system builders, and none are more popular than the latest Ryzen 7 9800X3D. And, predictably, it looks like there are already some fakes spreading around — not just fake product list

Windows 11 laptop users can finally rejoice thanks to Microsoft’s latest improvement: a much better battery status display.
Up until now, you could only see a battery level indicator in the bottom right-hand corner of the Windows 11 taskbar, and that indicator didn’t immediately show you the percentage of your battery’s charge. You had to hover your mouse c


OLED monitors are all the rage for PC gamers right now. But even if you’re ready to dive in with an upgrade, you don’t want to spend more money than you have to, right? Well, set your sights on this Samsung Odyssey OLED G8, a 34-inch ultrawide that’s going for just under $640 on eBay — that’s almost half off its ori

Flagship CPUs may be tempting at first glance, especially if you are building a gaming PC where budget is not an issue. However, the small increase in performance compared to less expensive variants does not justify the high price premium in most cases.
One of the main reasons why a flagship processor is often not the best choice is the price. Flagship pro

Ever since the ill-fated demise of Google Glass in 2015, there’s been a part of me itching to know how augmented reality (AR) glasses tech has advanced — and every now and then, I get a taste. For the last several years, I’ve watched as display technology has shrunken down to fit right within a pair of glasses, and I’ve gone hands-on with a handful of different types

Lenovo’s iconic crimson red TrackPoint nub, which has been going strong for three decades, is a staple of ThinkPad laptops. However, this year at CES, Lenovo announced that it’s ditching the nub on the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition laptops.