Graphics Cards
… News Watch: Intel's Tom Petersen talks Arc G3 and handheld gaming at Computex Intel's Tom Petersen explains why he thinks of the Arc G3 line as GPUs with CPUs attached, rather than the other way around. …
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CPUs and Processors
… News Watch: Intel's Tom Petersen talks Arc G3 and handheld gaming at Computex Intel's Tom Petersen explains why he thinks of the Arc G3 line as GPUs with CPUs attached, rather than the other way around. News Desktop CPU shipments plunge 20 percent. …
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra could be your killer PC upgrade
… Historically, if you've wanted to run an AI application on a laptop, the available system RAM was split between the GPU and the PC's operating system. Component makers have begun stepping in to save the day. Intel, for example, now lets users decide how much memory gets allocated to the CPU and GPU. …
The Alienware 15 is a fine gaming laptop priced into irrelevance
… That gets you a relatively recent CPU... and an RTX 4050 graphics card from 2023. …
9 cheap or free ways to make your old PC run faster
… This is the single most noticeable PC upgrade most people can make. …
PC building has entered its chaos era—and I'm here for the ride
… In fact, displays feel hot, in a vein similar to CPU and GPU launches of recent yesteryear. …
PC building's weird new reality: Your favorite old parts are back on the menu
… The price of modern storage and RAM has skyrocketed in the last year or two, and since Raptor Lake can support either newer and pricy DDR5 RAM or the older but cheaper DDR4 variety it's easy to imagine Intel shipping new Raptor Lake CPUs next year for folks looking to build or upgrade their DDR4 sy… …
PC hardware prices are brutal, so I’m upgrading everything else
… So what’s a PC enthusiast with upgrade eyes bigger than their budget supposed to do? I found my solution: Embrace the parts of the PC that aren’t actually inside your PC with the fervor you usually dedicate to poring over GPU and SSD specs. …
Intel is giving budget gamers what Nvidia and AMD won't
… And yet, whereas AMD is debuting a $900 flagship X3D CPU, Intel is: launching Wildcat Lake, a lineup of budget-conscious Core 300 CPUs with capable on-board graphics; extending multi-frame generation support to older Arc GPUs; refreshing Arrow Lake 250K and 270K CPUs that are competitive everywhere… …
We tested a bunch of gaming laptops -- these are the clear winners
… With the power of today’s GPUs, a lot of games, especially at a sedate resolution of 1920×1080, have shifted more performance to the CPU. The reason we’re talking about this now is if you rob the CPU of memory bandwidth, even a decently fast one, you can take a sizable hit in gaming performance. …