This Lenovo laptop is powerful, but a real mixed bag
…Battery life When Qualcomm first introduced its Snapdragon X chips for PC, efficiency was one of the big promises with the PCs meant to catch up to Apple’s laptops. While I…
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Steam is building a game performance estimator for your PC
Steam is building a game performance estimator for your PC
Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis
…Personally, I'd rather just build a desktop without a window, showing off the sad state of PC gaming for anyone on a budget.
Buying a PC power supply in 2026 is weirdly easy to mess up
…What form factor is right for you? If you're building a standard PC in a standard size case (ATX, mATX, or E-ATX), then a standard ATX power supply is perfectly…
PC Performance: Building, Tuning, and Pushing Your Rig Further
…So is the reason to keep caring Motherboard sales are collapsing, but PC builders still have reasons to dream. Feature I tried a skinny RTX 5080. It fixed the worst thing about…
CPU shortages loom as PC makers scramble for chips
…Lead times for CPUs are now stretching out to multiple months, making it harder for manufacturers to finish and sell consumer PCs. Processors are incredibly expensive to produce compared to their component…
I tested the ThinkPad P16V Gen 3 laptop. It's hard to justify
…Its display lid is made with aluminum, but its bottom is a PC-ABS plastic. The keyboard deck has a nice coating that feels a bit better than PC-ABS plastic would…
The new Ryzen 9: Did AMD just announce a CPU for exactly no one?
…But between the more production-focused tone of the announcement, and the absolute "AI" nightmare of the current situation for anyone who wants to build a PC with lots of fast RAM…
Valve is quietly building its own AI tool called SteamGPT
…The code for the digital PC gaming platform contains references to functions such as task generation, data labelling, model evaluation, summarization, and inference—all terms that are related to modern LLMs and…
Windows 11 testing is going back to the future with new Insider plans
…Previously, even if Microsoft announced a new feature in a new build, your PC wasn't guaranteed to receive it; Microsoft would "A/B" test it, delivering it to some members of…