Alienware has always been a notable name for PC gamers, even before Dell bought the company to turn it into its high-end gaming brand almost 20 years ago. But in all that time, I don’t think they’ve seriously competed with the likes of Razer or Corsair for the gaming keyboard market. Sure, they make keyboards, but it’s just the stuff you ge
Acer’s Predator gaming laptop lineup for CES 2024 boasts five new laptops, with sharp distinctions between premium, midrange, and budget models based upon the GPU and screen refresh rate. GPU options now push up into the GeForce RTX 4090 range, with 250Hz display options among its Predator Helios lineup.
Acer’s additions also include a new 18-in
We know that Thunderbolt’s next major iteration, Thunderbolt 5, will debut sometime in 2024. Two vendors, J5create and Hyper, showed off their first hardware at CES 2024. But there are two big questions: When will you actually get it and how much will it cost you?
The answer? It depends. Both J5 and Hyper representatives told PCWorld that they receive
As regular viewers of PCWorld’s Full Nerd podcast know, I’m a massive fan of Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. It’s easily the best game-streaming service for people with deep PC gaming libraries, and now it’s becoming even more useful with the addition
Nvidia unveiled a trio of new RTX 40-series “Super” graphics cards during its CES 2024 virtual keynote Monday morning. Nvidia introduced the Super branding for the RTX 20-series, and these new ones match their predecessors in more than name. Like the RTX 20-series before it, the RTX 40-series is a fantastic reset for Nvidia’s modern GeForce lineup o
Last year one of the big trends at tech trade shows was what we dubbed “the War on Cables,” new designs for desktop PCs and components that helped you route power and data cables out of sight for a super-cle
Finally, you can get a modern 1080p graphics card with 16GB of VRAM without spending half a grand. AMD unveiled the $330 Radeon RX 7600 XT during its recorded CES 2024 keynote on Monday morning.
Describing the Radeon RX 7600 XT is easy: It’s basically a Radeon RX 7600
Turnabout is fair play: At CES 2024, AMD launched desktop versions of its mobile Ryzen 8000 processors, bringing AI to the desktop alongside integrated graphics. And for AMD fans who aren’t quite ready to make the leap to AMD’s AM5 socket, whoa! There are new Ryzen 5000 desktop chips as well.
AMD’s launch adds four new Ryzen 8000 G-series
As someone who both works and games on the same hardware, it can be tricky (and expensive) to find displays that meet all of my needs. HP’s newest Omen gaming monitor, revealed at CES, might just hit both of those Venn diagram circles. The 32-inch OLED panel has so much tech crammed into it that it’s perfect for the kind of user who has multiple complex s
In 2024, laptop makers have a choice: launch laptops with Intel’s “Raptor Lake Refresh” mobile CPUs or use Intel’s AI-powered Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” chips instead. HP is launching two new Omen Transcend laptops this week at CES 2024 and you’ll have a choice between both processors as well as a new OLED display option.