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MSI Unveils Most Powerful Graphics Card for Mini-ITX: The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Aero ITX

Home News (Image credit: MSI) Since Nvidia’s Ampere architecture turns out to be rather power hungry, it takes graphics card vendors a lot of time and effort to build smaller GeForce RTX 30-series boards for Mini-ITX systems. MSI this week became the world’s first manufacturer to build a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti-based card for small form-factor systems. … Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 Graphics Cards Not Compatible with AMD, Older Systems

Home News (Image credit: Intel) As reported yesterday, Intel’s first discrete graphics cards for desktops in more than two decades will not be available at retail and will only be sold as parts of pre-built mainstream systems. Apparently, they will also only be compatible with select Intel platforms and will not work with AMD’s CPUs at all. … Read more

The Medium is slow-burning psychological horror on the Xbox Series X

Filed under: Games Review It can be clunky, but a chilling, gruesome atmosphere makes it work The Medium is a game about a person who is able to live in two worlds, experiencing the realms of the living and the dead at the same time. Developed by the same team behind the 2019 adaptation of… Read more

Look Closely Before You Buy a GeForce RTX 3000 Laptop

Home News GeForce RTX 3000 Laptop (Image credit: Nvidia) Have you ever heard of the saying, “Not everything is made equal?” That statement holds even more truth now with the launch of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000 Laptop GPUs. Nvidia has only released three primary mobile Ampere graphics cards: GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Laptop… Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 GPUs Are Finally Coming to Desktops, But OEM Only

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s Xe Graphics has been out for a while now, in the form of 11th Gen Tiger Lake laptops, but the discrete variant (Iris Xe Max) has only been in a few notebooks. Now, Intel is finally releasing its Iris Xe for desktops, but they’re not what you would expect,… Read more

Best 4K TV for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S 2021: Get a great television for next-gen gaming

(Pocket-lint) – The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S have been out for a little while now, not that getting hold of one is getting any easier than it was at launch. Still, if you’re the proud owner of a new console, or know your TV is a little old, you might want to upgrade… Read more

Asus TUF Dash F15 Review: RTX 3070 Meets Intel H35

Our Verdict The Asus TUF Dash F15 is an attractively thin gaming clamshell with an eSports-ready screen. But you can squeeze more frames out of other RTX 30-series laptops. For Decent battery life Fast screen Successful software-based noise cancelling Easy upgrades Against Frame rates could be better No webcam Flat keyboard Gaming laptops are trying… Read more

MSI GP66 Leopard review: substance over style

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’re looking for a gaming rig that’s a step above the budget price point but still more affordable than the flashiest PCs on the market, you’re looking for MSI’s Leopard line. With a starting price of… Read more

LTC MoshPit WHM-01 Review

Introduction Equipped with PixArt’s PAW3335 sensor capable of 16,000 CPI, the LTC MoshPit WHM-01 essentially is a budget Logitech G Pro Wireless. The MoshPit WHM-01 not only has a very similar shape and mostly similar weight (87 g), it also comes with magnetic side buttons on both sides that can be removed if not needed…. Read more

Verizon prepaid customers can now access fast 5G Ultra Wideband

Verizon is extending access to its fast mmWave 5G network to its prepaid customers for the first time. A new unlimited plan starts at $75 a month — $10 more than the standard unlimited prepaid plan — and includes access to Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network. Previously, 5G UW access was limited to postpaid customers… Read more

Hitman 3 Benchmarks and Performance

Home News (Image credit: IO Interactive) Hitman 3 just launched, and IO Interactive’s latest stealth assassination sandbox game has garnered high ratings from many publications — PC Gamer gives it a 90, for example. But what sort of hardware do you need to run the game properly? We’ve grabbed a copy from the Epic Games… Read more

Best Cheap CPUs of 2021, Tested and Ranked

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD’s Ryzen 3000 and Athlon processors (including the unlocked $49 Athlon 3000G) have shaken up the low-cost landscape and made a splash on our CPU Benchmark Hierarchy, but crushing shortages of chips has gripped the industry, which impacts the low end of the market in a particularly painful way. So… Read more

Bose refreshes its SoundLink Revolve and Revolve+ Bluetooth speakers

Home News (Image credit: Bose ) Fresh from launching its unusual Sport Open Earbuds, Bose has turned its attention to updating two of its Bluetooth speakers. Say hello to the SoundLink Revolve II and SoundLink Revolve+ II, successors to the – you guessed it – Bose SoundLink Revolve and SoundLink Revolve+. The new Revolve II (pictured below) now… Read more

Q Acoustics Q Active 200

Our Verdict Q Acoustics bravely enters uncharted waters, but out-of-character sonic shortfalls let down an otherwise decent first effort For Thoughtfully designed Vast hub connectivity Punchy, room-filling sound Against Lacks dynamic and rhythmic expression No dedicated control app Stands are expensive extras It’s a simple fact of life that the more there is to do,… Read more

heise + | Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS

Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS Write FreeBSD to SD card and prepare speed exhaust localize external hard drive Start FreeBSD Conclusion When we switched to FreeBSD out of curiosity tested various ARM-based single board computers (Single Board Computer / SBC), two older Banana Pi M1s stood out from the crowd:… Read more