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Dell is offering $230 off one of its standout gaming monitors

Dell’s Summer Sale Event is officially underway, and if you’re looking for a 1440p panel to support your newfound gaming habits, the Dell 27 S2721DGF Gaming Monitor is an excellent bet. The 27-inch peripheral is currently on sale at Dell for $380 — more than $200 off the initial list price — and it touts… Read more

USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops

Soon, the majority of portable PCs won’t need to be equipped with an ugly barrel jack and a proprietary power brick to charge. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has just announced (via CNET) that it’s more than doubling the amount of power you can send over a USB-C cable to 240 watts, which means you’ll… Read more

Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 Review: Team Red’s Blasting Off Again

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 is so good that it makes us wonder why Dell didn’t team up with AMD on a laptop sooner. For + Strong gaming performance + Excellent productivity performance + Unique chassis + Not too costly for it power Against – Internals run hot – Middling audio –… Read more

Tiger Lake-H Tested: We Benchmark Intel’s Top-End 8-Core i9-11980HK

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Intel is starting to get its legs again. The company, which initially had issues with its 10nm chips, has released its first eight-core, 10nm Tiger Lake-H processors that are ready for gaming and high-end productivity notebooks. For its 10th gen chips, Intel used a 10nm process (“Ice Lake”) for… Read more

Here are all the new laptops with Intel 11th Gen H-series chips announced today

The Razer Blade 15 Advanced, one of the numerous laptops announced today with Intel’s new chips.Image: Razer Over half a dozen manufacturers have announced new models Intel is adding new processors to its 11th Gen Core H-series lineup today, and over half a dozen laptop manufacturers are announcing new machines that make use of them…. Read more

Intel Launches Eight Core Tiger Lake-H Processors: More Power, Lower Clocks

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel introduced its long-awaited eight-core Tiger Lake-H H35 chips for laptops today, vying for a spot on our best gaming laptop list and marking Intel’s first shipping eight-core 10nm chips for the consumer market. These new 11th-generation chips, which Intel touts as the ‘World’s best gaming laptop processors,’ come as… Read more

Alienware Refreshes m15, Teases Thin New X-Series

Home News (Image credit: Dell, Alienware) Alienware and its parent company Dell are updating existing laptops to feature Intel’s new 35-65-watt 11th Gen Core “Tiger Lake-H” processors. On the high-end, the Alienware m15 R6 is largely adding new internals. It’s mostly the same as the existing Alienware m15 R4 but with the newer CPUs. This… Read more

AMD’s Frank Azor talks SAM, SmartShift, FSR & more

Dominic Moass 3 days ago CPU, Featured Announcement, Graphics KitGuru was recently able to sit down with Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD. In a wide-ranging discussion, we spoke about the unique position AMD is in as both a CPU and GPU manufacturer and how the company can use that to its… Read more

Dell issues firmware update to hundreds of PC models to fix security vulnerability

Matthew Wilson 21 hours ago Featured Tech News, Security It was revealed this week that Dell is in the process of updating hundreds of PC models to address a security bug affecting machines dating all the way back to 2009. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain kernel-level permissions in Windows. The vulnerability was found… Read more

Thousands of Dell PCs Are Vulnerable To Attacks Due to A Flawed Dell Driver

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) A huge security flaw has been found in Dell’s latest dbutil driver (version 2.3) that can allow hackers to escalate privileges on a Dell machine, use a denial of service attack and access sensitive information. The flaw, which requires physical access to a machine, could potentially affect hundreds of… Read more

Dell is issuing a security patch for hundreds of computer models going back to 2009

Dell has released a security patch that fixes a security vulnerability affecting many Dell computers going back to 2009, along with instructions on how to install it if your computer is affected (via threatpost). The vulnerability, found by security research firm SentinelLabs, is present in a driver used by Dell and Alienware’s firmware update utilities,… Read more

Cherry’s First Mechanical Laptop Switches Improved My Typing Speed, Comfort

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Whether you’re working or gaming on your computer, there’s nothing quite like the feel of a mechanical keyboard. All of the best gaming keyboards are mechanical, but when it comes time to choose a laptop, you’ll find not many come mechanical switches. While there have been a handful of… Read more

Corsair One a200 Review: Liquid-Cooled Ryzen and RTX 3080

Our Verdict With a Ryzen 9 5900X and an RTX 3080, both liquid-cooled for quiet operation in a compact case, Corsair’s One a200 is easy to recommend–if you can afford it and find it in stock. Just know that your upgrade options are more limited than larger gaming rigs. For + Top-end performance + Space-saving,… Read more

Alienware Launches its First AMD Laptop Since 2007

Home News (Image credit: Dell) Alienware is releasing its first laptop with an AMD CPU since 2007. Its parent company, Dell, today announced the Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5, alongside a lower-end Dell G15 Ryzen Edition and a Dell G15 refresh with Intel chips. The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 will use AMD’s Ryzen 5000… Read more

Dell Preps 240Hz Gaming Monitor With IPS Panel

Home News Dell S2522HG (Image credit: Dell) Dell is hopping into the spring with a quartet of new gaming monitors, including a speedy IPS option and a smattering of curved screens with some speed of their own that also prove that there’s still room for VA panels in the gaming space. The monitor maker is… Read more