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How to Buy a Motherboard: A Guide for 2021

Home Buying Guides Choosing the best motherboard is in many ways the most integral part of your PC build, although choosing the best graphics card and best CPU often get more attention. Every part of your PC plugs into the motherboard you choose. Its form factor dictates the size of your computer and how much you can plug into… Read more

Rotel Michi S5 / P5

Our Verdict With the superb construction, elegant design and perfectly natural sound of the Michi P5 and S5 combo from Rotel, the only question left to ask is ‘how much?’ The pair offer awesomely low noise with huge output and do so in a gorgeous package. For Superb sound Prestige appearance Great built-in DAC Against… Read more

The best SSDs and hard drives 2021 Top portable external drives for your Mac or PC

(Pocket-lint) – With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in. And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it’s more important than… Read more

Joe Biden made climate change a national security priority — what’s next?

President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order today that makes climate change a top US national security priority. He commissioned a “National Intelligence Estimate on the security implications of climate change.” He also directed the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to develop plans to adapt to a warming world. The environmental and… Read more

HBO Max hits subscriber goal two years ahead of schedule

HBO Max has nearly 40 million US subscribers, AT&T disclosed in its first quarter earnings report on Wednesday. Combined with traditional HBO subscribers, the platform has surpassed a 41 million subscriber milestone the company says it didn’t expect to hit for two more years. Globally, AT&T says HBO now has more than 60 million subscribers…. Read more

Micron: 1α Process Technology to Reduce Costs By Up to 40%

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron on Tuesday announced its new 1α fabrication process for DRAM. Initially, the company will use it to make DDR4 as well as LPDDR4 memory, but over time it will be used to produce all types of the company’s DRAM. The manufacturing technology promises tangible decreases in DRAM costs, but… 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

Best gaming routers 2021: Amazing Wi-Fi performance for your home

(Pocket-lint) – If you’re an avid gamer, whether on console or PC, you’ll know the struggle that bad Wi-Fi can bring. Dodgy connections can often be caused by a router than just can’t hack it when it comes to sending signal through walls or floors. How to build and upgrade your own extreme gaming PC… Read more

Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Tachyon Blasts Rocket Lake With 1300A of Power

Home News (Image credit: Overclocking.com) Gigabyte presented nine Intel Z590-based Aorus-branded motherboards at CES earlier this month, but didn’t actually showcase perhaps the most ambitious model in the lineup: The Z590 Aorus Tachyon, which can deliver up to an almost-ridiculous 1300A of power to Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake chips. For reference, most flagship motherboards top out around 1000A. … 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

GeForce RTX 3000 for notebooks: Max-Q disappears, but in reality it's still there

There is a little confusion about which versions of GeForce RTX GPUs are 1859, including standard and Max-Q, which will debut in new gaming notebooks. Let’s try to understand what is the approach taken now by NVIDIA of Paolo Corsini published 22 January 2021 , at 12: 01 in the Video Cards channel Max-Q NVIDIA… Read more

PTZOptics Webcam 80 Review: Solid Quality, High Price

Our Verdict The PTZOptics Webcam 80 is more expensive than the Logitech C920 despite being less usable across different lighting conditions thanks to frequent overexposure. For Tends to flatter the face with warm color exposure Wide field of view Against Photos are frequently too sharp Handles low light poorly Expensive Before the holiday season struck,… Read more

Colorful Launches Largest and Fastest RTX 3060 Ti: Three Slots, Three Fans, 240W

Home News (Image credit: Colorful) Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is hardly the most power-hungry high-end graphics card ever introduced, yet manufacturers of add-in-boards equip such products with rather sophisticated cooling systems in a bid to maximize their overclocking potential and, to some degree, make them ‘look’ faster. Colorful seems to have outperformed its rivals… Read more

Best Bang & Olufsen speaker 2021: Which B&O speaker is right for you?

(Pocket-lint) – Bang & Olufsen makes some of the best looking and best-sounding speakers on the market, Bluetooth and otherwise. There are a couple of ranges within B&O Play’s lineup: BeoPlay and BeoLit, with the BeoLit name dating all the way back to 1939. Quite the heritage. Our guide to the best Bluetooth speakers We’ve… Read more

Intel Announces New Generation NUC 11 Enthusiast Mini PC and Barebone Configuration

Intel’s next-generation minicomputer is equipped with both the company’s own integrated Xe graphics driver and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. Intel’s processor announcements at the CES 2021 virtual fair ignored many smaller releases. One of these was the company’s next-generation Phantom Canyon NUC computer. Phantom Canyon’s official name is NUC 11 Enthusiast Mini PC… Read more