Content and news by Rob Williams

It’s beginning to feel like AMD’s preparing a launch for some new CPUs, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t because of the barrage of rumors that have been floating around. Some of those rumors include believable slides, encompassing both Ryzen 2000 series chips, as well as the second-gen Ryzen…..

It’s been a very busy few years for Khronos Group and its Vulkan graphics API. Three years ago, Valve stunned GDC audiences with the announcement that it had begun work on a Vulkan graphics driver. That came at a time when the industry was only barely grasping what Vulkan was all about,…..

For better or for worse, the explosion of cryptocurrency and crypto mining has affected the PC components market significantly – and not to mention the consumers who want those products. Consumers have a hard time finding the graphics card they want, and companies have a hard time getting enough product out the…..

The next major iteration of Windows 10 is due soon, either this month or early next, and based on all that we know so far, it’s going to be worth the upgrade. Called the Spring Creators Update (AKA: Redstone 4), and versioned 1803, one of the biggest (but probably most subtle) things…..

It’s been an extremely busy couple of months for both Qualcomm and Broadcom, as the latter continues to pursue a hostile takeover. Earlier this week, Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced that its annual shareholders meeting would be pushed back to April 5, as the US Committee on Foreign Investment decided to spend some…..

It doesn’t even feel like it’s been that long since Intel announced its partnership with AMD to deliver Radeon graphics on some of its SKUs, but here we are, not far from an actual launch. Korean tech site Playwares (via HotHardware) managed to snag one of the new Hades Canyon NUCs, sporting…..

It’s nice to envision a world where only high-end devices exist, and with Arm’s latest processors, the gap between high-end and mainstream is tightened. The new products include the Mali-G52 and Mali-G31 graphics processors, the Mali-D51 display processor, and also the Mali-V52 video processor. Yup – that’s a lot to wrap your…..

Corsair has just launched a new $70 chassis ($80 with tempered glass) that aims to give you everything you’re looking for in a chassis at any price-point. The Carbide 275R is a mid-tower coming in either black or white that’s painted on with the goal of a minimalist aesthetic – but not…..

AMD has just rolled out a big performance update to its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition driver. It targets a couple of new game releases, but the bulk of the focus is on eSports. I know this because this driver warranted an overarching moniker, Project ReSX (for ‘eSports eXperience’). This driver doesn’t only…..

When Intel released its 8th-gen Core “Coffee Lake” processors last fall, the most notable improvement brought forth was the introduction of 6-core models (eg: i7-8700K). At the time, it felt like Intel worked its magic quickly in order to counter some AMD Ryzen parts, but for the entire ecosystem, whatever caused us…..

There are a billion (give or take) retailers out there, but there are only a handful of things that one could do to lure people in better than the competition. A lack of a sales tax is a good one, a trait Newegg has adopted for many of its customers. As it happens, though,…..

It feels like no tech product is safe from incessant rumor, but details surrounding NVIDIA’s next graphics card launch have been so clouded, I feel like we’re at a point where we know so much, we know nothing at all. There are many contradictions out there, but at the end of the…..

Last week’s Mobile World Congress was an interesting event for a handful of reasons. For one, it snowed in Barcelona, which is something that didn’t just affect the comfort of traveling press, it also complicated the plans of Formula 1 teams getting their preseason testing done. But more importantly, we also saw the…..

Can you remember 2009? I know; it was a long time ago. But in the spring of that year, it seemed all but certain that 3DRealms (and Apogee) were just about gone forever. Yet today, I’m writing about a brand-new 3DRealms game that’s made in honor of some of the classics that…..

We recently spent a few hours tearing up Far Cry 5’s Hope County, and now, we get to share what we experienced in both the solo and co-op shared campaign. Join us as we head to Montana’s fictional Hope County, where sanity has become a scarce resource as a doomsday cult has taken over. Freaked out? Let’s proceed…

The Qualcomm vs. Broadcom fight has been ongoing for months, and with Broadcom’s continued aggression, it could be considered a fierce one. The situation is soon to reach a critical point, though: on March 6, votes will be tabulated to figure out whether or not six ‘independent directors’ from Broadcom will be…..

A chassis for cheap shouldn’t imply cheap quality. Cooler Master’s new MasterBox MB600L helps back that notion up. It’s affordable, but not at the expense of design features we now demand. The MB600L has multiple cable routing options, a PSU shroud to keep things looking clean, and more for its modest $50 price tag.

Looking forward to Far Cry 5 but don’t currently have a PC worth playing it on? Well, AMD wants you to kill two birds with one wallet: buy an AMD-infused PC, and a free copy of Ubisoft’s latest FPS will be yours. And, believe me, it’s one that’s going to be worth…..

Qualcomm keeps telling Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) that it’s being undervalued, and I’d say the company is doing really well at proving its point so far in 2018. The company releases so many news items, that it’s hard for a mere mortal to keep up. That even excludes the back-and-forth bickerings between the…..

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper CPUs offer a ton of performance, but that performance can sometimes come at the expense of higher temperatures. Enermax’s Liqtech TR4 280 aims to prevent heat from ever becoming a problem, though, thanks to its full TR4 coverage. Complementing that in our look is the Equilence chassis. Between them, Threadripper screams… but at a muted level.