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Reducing motion blur is one of those things that improves gaming in a real but subtle way — you often need a live demonstration to see just how much better it makes things. Take Nvidia’s ULMB (ultra low motion blur) system, which has been available for G-Sync displays since 2015. The company just took the wraps off of an advanced ULMB 2 implementation, an

One of the hardest parts of building a PC is cable management, keeping all the power and data cables from cluttering up the internals and getting in the way of fans or heating components. It’s gotten a lot better in the last few years — modular power supplies and M.2 storage drives, for example — but getting a clutter-free desktop build is still a t

PCIe 5.0 graphics cards are awesomely powerful, but they’re running into some teething troubles, specifically with the fancy new power cables required to deliver that power. The new 12+4 rail design, also known as 12VHPWR, has been shown to have

How do you know if a fancy USB4 external storage drive is really using the full speed of USB4? If you’re just looking at a box on a shelf, the answer is, “you don’t.”

As a standard, especially if you’re looking for those fast file transfers, USB4 is

Trying to keep up with all of the latest Windows 11 features can be confusing, especially during the Microsoft Build rush in May when Microsoft releases new features, then announces others. This year was no different, with Microsoft unleashing a tor

Summer is almost here, and if you have some cool adventures planned, you’re going to want to record them for posterity. With a drone, you can take your Instagram feed up a notch, and during our Memorial Day Sale, you can

It’s been almost 20 years since HP purchased the boutique computer maker VoodooPC, bolstering both its gaming and design offerings. And in 2009, that purchase bore fruit: The company’s “Blackbird” design was refined into a super-powered, super-modular microtower called the Firebird 803. On the latest PCWorld YouTube video, we’re joined b

Editing video is still one of the most demanding tasks you can do on a PC. So when you try and do it on a laptop, and furthermore, on a laptop you wouldn’t mind hauling on an international flight, things can get complicated quickly. Which brings us to the