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How Alix Diaconis creates video for The Verge

Along with news, features, opinions, and tech reviews, video has become an increasingly important part of The Verge’s content. But to make great, involving videos, you’ve got to have staff with the expertise to create that video — along with the tools that allow those staff members to let their imaginations soar. Alix Diaconis is… Read more

How to Buy the Right CPU Cooler: A Guide for 2021

Home How-to (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) One of the most important decisions when building your PC, especially if you plan on overclocking, is choosing the best CPU cooler. The cooler is often a limiting factor to your overclocking potential, especially under sustained loads. Your cooler choice can also make a substantial difference in noise output…. Read more

Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Master Preview: Remastered for Z590

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) While we still don’t have an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K CPU to use for testing, the Intel Z590 motherboards are arriving in our labs and on store shelves. So while we await the ability to talk benchmarks, we’ll be walking in detail through the features of these brand-new boards…. Read more

HP’s Spectre x360 14 review: the best 2-in-1 you can buy

HP’s Spectre x360 14 is a luxury worth paying for. I have used a heck of a lot of laptops in the past year, and some of them are quite nice. MacBooks have nailed the “premium” look and feel for years, and I’ll never waste an opportunity to gush about the build quality of Dell’s… Read more

Alienware m17 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: Can’t Get Much Faster

Our Verdict A speed demon that prioritizes raw performance, the Alienware m17 R4 puts plenty of pop into a sleek but bulky chassis. For Unrivaled performance Snappy keyboard Attractive design At present, RTX 3080 is the fastest laptop graphics card around, but not all RTX 3080-powered laptops are created equal. Many vendors use Nvidia’s Max-Q… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

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

Stealth Introduces Compact Waterproof SFF Fanless PC

Home News (Image credit: Stealth) Stealth has produced an all-new waterproof mini-PC with an IP67 water resistance rating, the WPC-905. The unit is designed to be used as an IoT device, server, or workstation in harsh environmental conditions. The starting price for the WPC-905 is $3,195. But for that price, you get a fully waterproof… Read more

Apple Mac mini (M1) review: Next-gen speed in an old case

(Pocket-lint) – The Apple Mac mini has been around in one form or another for the best part of 15 years. It may not be a top seller, or a model you see millions upon millions of people using, but it clearly has strong appeal that’s seen it last as long as any of Apple’s… Read more

Leaked Benchmarks From Core i9-Powered iMac Surface

Home News (Image credit: Apple) A mysterious system packing a Core i9-10910 Comet Lake CPU and a (currently unheard of) AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 65GB of RAM has been spotted on an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark score. All data indicates this system could possibly be a prototype for the next generation iMac… Read more

GDDR6X in 3080 and 3090 Hits 110C While Mining Ethereum

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Popular hardware monitoring tool HWInfo64 has just received a new update, version 6.42 that adds support for “GDDR6X Memory Junction Temperature.” This feature will allow you to check your VRAM temperature if you have a GDDR6X equipped Ampere card like the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. This could be… Read more

AMD Nashira Summit GPU Spotted, Possibly RDNA3 with a Multi-Chip Design

Home News (Image credit: AMD) A new AMD GPU codenamed Nashira Summit has just been spotted and benchmarked in Ashes of the Singularity. Not much is known about Nashira Summit, but we suspect it could be a mid-range RDNA2 product, or quite possibly RDNA3. At the moment, there is very little detail about Nashira Summit… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus 17G Review: Ampere and a Blazing Screen

Our Verdict The Gigabyte Aorus 17G pushes out solid RTX-30 series performance while offering a mechanical keyboard. For 300 Hz Screen Physical Mechanical Keyboard Against Not much faster than prior-gen laptops Slightly dim screen Slightly low color gamut Ampere has finally landed on laptops, with Gigabyte’s 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G in particular representing… 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

Alienware m15 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: RTX 30-Series Performance, Eye-Popping Color

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 R4 packs plenty of RTX 30-series performance in an attractive design with an amazing screen. For Sleek design Strong performance Snappy Keyboard Vibrant optional OLED Screen Against Warm temperatures Relatively short battery life Nvidia’s RTX 30-series “Ampere” graphics cards have been burning up the desktop market since they launched last… Read more