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Razer Kiyo Pro Webcam Review: A New Hardcore Standard

Our Verdict The Razer Kiyo Pro trades the original Kiyo’s ring light for HDR, a fancy light sensor and 1080p @ 60 fps recording, but you’ll pay a hefty premium for those features. For Light Sensor makes room lighting easier HDR 1080p @ 60 fps recording Three different FOVs Heavily customizable through software Clear audio… Read more

The Tale of the GeForce GTX 340, a GPU That Technically Doesn’t Exist

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) The GTX 340 is perhaps one of the strangest and rarest graphics cards you can find online today. As covered by the Budget-Builds Official YouTube Channel, the GTX 340 is, in fact, an unofficial GeForce 300 series card that Nvidia never actually produced. Instead, enterprising modders created the cards from… Read more

Rumor: Intel Retries Wacky Packaging With Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K

Home News (Image credit: VideoCardz) When Intel’s Core i9-9900K came out a few years back, it came with some wacky ‘dodecahedron’ packaging. This packaging looked awesome and quickly went on its way to become a collector’s item, right up until it was killed off due to shipping difficulties. Then, for the 10th-Gen chips, Intel also… Read more

Linux has made it to Mars

Yesterday, NASA landed a rover named Perseverance on Mars. I, along with 2 million other people, watched the landing happen live on YouTube. It was beautiful. I mean, here’s this little robot dude that’s traveled millions and millions of miles through the barrenness of space, and now it’s just hanging out on Mars taking pics… Read more

Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 Review

Introduction I would like to thank Phanteks for supplying the review sample. When Phanteks introduced the original Evolv Shift, it made quite the headlines. Now, over 3 years later, Phanteks has introduced the Evolv Shift 2, which comes with a lot of subtle but functional changes while keeping the design fundamentals of the original. The… Read more

HP Spectre x360 14 Review: The New Best 2-in-1 Laptop

Our Verdict The HP Spectre x360 14 is a beautifully constructed 2-in-1 laptop with a vibrant 3:2 OLED touch screen to showcase your work. It has an excellent keyboard and a variety of ports for all of your accessories. Those who prioritize battery life may want to consider a non-OLED configuration, however. For Sleek, attractive… Read more

Sapphire’s First Toxic GPU in 5 Years Is To Die For

Home News (Image credit: VideoCardz) The last time we saw a Sapphire ‘Toxic’ card land, it was 2016. There were no GPU shortages nor mining crazes, and we could go out to get beers with friends. But we’re living in a different world now, and a new report from VideoCardz comes in showcasing the oh-so-shiny… Read more

HWiNFO Will Soon Sense Peak ‘Hotspot’ Temp of Nvidia GPUs

Home News Nvidia RTX 2080 Super GPU Exposed (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) To date, temperature monitoring tools such as HWiNFO have only been able to display the GPU temperature of Nvidia GPUs as an average of its sensors, but that’s about to change. According to Igor Wallossek, who recently got his hands on an unreleased… Read more

XPG Pylon 650W Power Supply Review

Our Verdict The XPG Pylon 650 is a top offering in this efficiency and wattage category. For Full power at 40 degrees Celsius Good overall performance Build quality is high enough Low inrush currents Highly efficient 5VSB rail FDB fan Long cables and 2x EPS connectors Compact dimensions Low EMI emissions Compatible with the Alternative… Read more

Razer Tomahawk ATX Review: Razer Invader

Our Verdict Razer’s Tomahawk takes an excellent case as foundation and bolts on some basic design flaws, ruining a case design that could otherwise have been brilliant For Absolute tank of a chassis Heavy, quality materials Quiet operation Great looks Against Restricted front intake Air doesn’t flow through front intake filter Only includes one fan… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX A6000: 48GB of Memory Powers Twice The Performance

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) When Nvidia launched its RTX A6000 48GB professional graphics card last October, the company said that it would offer at least twice the performance of the company’s previous-gen Quadro cards. These types of claims are not unusual, but how fast is the $4,650 RTX A6000 really in real-world benchmarks? (Interestingly, that’s only… Read more

MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio Review

Introduction Today, we bring you our first review of a custom design Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card in the MSI RX 6900 XT Gaming X Trio. When AMD originally announced the RX 6000 series “Big Navi,” with the RX 6900 XT release set for its own exclusive date, the company hadn’t made up its… Read more

This $1.50 Bracket Fixes All Your ‘Sticky’ AMD Ryzen Woes

Home News (Image credit: overclock3d.net) GELID has created a new CPU protection bracket for AMD Ryzen processors that safely insures your processor won’t get yanked out of its socket when disconnecting your CPU cooler, and it costs just $1.50. The new bracket addresses a long-held problem with some AMD CPUs: Sometimes the bond of the… Read more

Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G Zen 3 Desktop APU Allegedly Hits 4.75 GHz On All Cores

Home News Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G (Image credit: Chiphell) There is no concrete date for AMD’s Zen 3 APU announcement, but the latest sighting of the Ryzen 7 Pro 5750G indicates that the official launch may not be too far off. Unfortunately, the first sighting of the desktop PC APU comes as a Pro model,… Read more

Lian Li Spinoff Ssupd’s Meshlicious Is a Versatile, Compact ITX Case

Home Features (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) In recent years, several representatives from PC case companies have told us that mini-ITX cases are a niche, without enough interest to be worth heavily investing in. Yet oddly, over that same period, more and more companies seem to be churning out these compact small form-factor (SFF) chassis. The… Read more