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Big increases in suggested graphics card prices – EVGA and Zotac are following ASUS. Poor time to upgrade your PC

We recently informed you that the ASUS concern announced an increase in the prices of suggested graphics cards and motherboards, and it is not going to end with these components. The company explained the increases with increased production and logistics costs and import tariffs, adding that it is doing its best to prevent the growth… Read more

Netgear Nighthawk XR1000 Gaming Router Review: Congestion Control at Premium Price

Our Verdict While the setup made for a rough start, and the extra cost for security is annoying, these nuisances are largely forgotten with the granular control of prioritization for network traffic that can truly optimize gaming in a congested network environment. For DumaOS 3.0 Network congestion control Supports Wi-Fi 6 Integration with the smartphone… Read more

Reachy Robot Dumps Raspberry Pi for NUC, Upgrades Cameras

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Reachy, the torso-shaped humanoid robot that made a splash at last year’s CES, has now been upgraded with new cameras and an x86 processor in place of Raspberry Pi. The brainchild of France’s Pollen Robotics, Reachy has two arms with hands that can lift up to 500g each and… Read more

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Sea Hawk With 240mm Radiator

Home News (Image credit: MSI) There are a number of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards with a hybrid all-in-one liquid cooling system on the market today (well, kind of). Many of these products use custom designs, but their cooling systems are mostly standard, tailored for a particular printed circuit board (PCB). MSI decided to team… Read more

Tom’s Hardware CES 2021 Awards: Hot New Hardware for the Year Ahead

Home News (Image credit: Asus, Lenovo, LG, Thermaltake, Razer, MSI, Nvidia, EVGA. iBuyPower, AMD and Shutterstock) Let’s be honest. This wasn’t the CES anyone wanted. We’ve been covering North America’s largest tech show for years, so we can definitively say that, without in-person booths and demos, it’s just not the same. The most interesting things… Read more

Where Are the DisplayPort 2.0 Monitors and Graphics Cards?

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Currently, many of the best gaming monitors on offer feature DisplayPort 1.4a, but this tech has been available for three years now, and the market’s itching for an upgrade. The DisplayPort 2.0 spec was announced in June, so when can gamers expect to see monitors and graphics cards supporting it?… Read more

MSI Raising GPU Prices Due to Tariffs Too

Home News (Image credit: MSI) MSI will be raising the prices of its GPUs due to U.S. tariffs, putting it in line with other AIB companies like Asus, EVGA and Zotac, Tom’s Hardware has confirmed. In a Tom’s Hardware CES livestream, MSI components specialist David Yee answered a question from GPU editor Jarred Walton (you… Read more

Corsair 5000X Case Review: a Majestic Tower of Glass Opulence

Our Verdict Corsair’s 5000X RGB is a beast of an enclosure, offering a solid foundation for big, majestic RGB builds – but you have to throw in a lot of extra fans for it to make sense over the less-costly Obsidian 4000X. For So much tempered glass Added side intake for better thermal performance Big,… Read more

ViewSonic Details New Gaming Monitors, Why There’s No OLED

Home News ViewSonic has announced a full stable of new gaming monitors as part of CES 2021 this week. The lineup covers a range of resolutions and sizes, as well as some of the hottest new tech to hit gaming screens this year: HDMI 2.1 and Nvidia’s Reflex latency analyzer. If you’re into display trends,… Read more

The Medium – Bloober Team game with NVIDIA ray tracing and DLSS 2.0 support. What other new games will also get support?

At GeForce RTX: GAME ON, NVIDIA unveiled new PC hardware and a new list of games receiving support for ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS and NVIDIA Reflex techniques. At the moment, these improvements already use 36 titles, and now there are more to them. New titles with DLSS support are Call of Duty: Warzone, Outriders, Iron… Read more

Asus Details Upcoming RTX 3060 Cards

Home News Nvidia officially announced its upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card today, which won’t go on sale until late February. That hasn’t stopped Nvidia’s partners from revealing a variety of models, and Asus is joining us for a livestream on the Tom’s Hardware YouTube and Facebook at 1pm PST, 4pm EST today to… Read more

AMD Brings Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 to OEMs

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series processors have taken the DIY desktop PC market by storm, rewriting our Best CPU for Gaming recommendations and upsetting our CPU Benchmark Hierarchy. Now AMD is bringing the benefits of its Zen 3 architecture and 7nm process to the OEM market through two lower-TDP models,… Read more

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Hands-On: Next-Gen Ryzen eSports

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) CES 2021 is virtual this year, but there is one laptop we got the chance to go hands-on with during the show: the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, an eSports laptop featuring next-gen silicon from AMD and the latest RTX GPUs. Like an actual trade show, I can’t tell you… Read more

Lenovo’s Legion H600 Is a Wireless Charging Headset That May Actually Make Sense

Home News (Image credit: Lenovo) From smartphones to gaming peripherals, wireless charging is getting more common. Its advantage, however, isn’t always obvious. In the case of the wireless charging gaming headsets, Lenovo may be onto something with the Legion H600 announced today during CES 2021. We’ve seen wireless charging gaming headsets before. The HyperX went… Read more

Sapphire Technology Talks GPU Shortages, Cryptomining and More

Home News If you’ve been pining for one of the new best graphics cards for the past several months, we feel your pain. Unfortunately, things aren’t looking any better this side of 2020 than they were last month. We’re doing livestreams on the Tom’s Hardware YouTube channel and Facebook all this week with various tech… Read more