Be Quiet’s Pure Base 500 mid-tower case launched last year with a focus on minimizing fan noise, but as usual with quiet cases, its temperatures ran warm. Happily, you can now bypass […]
AMD on Tuesday launched what can only be described as the “home essentials” (read: bare-bones basic) of CPU chipsets for today’s and tomorrow’s Ryzen chips. The A520 chipset is a slight upgrade […]
Whether you’re grinding through class projects, exploring epic game worlds, or just streaming your favorite shows, your laptop should work around you, not the other way around. We’ve cut through the clutter […]
Q: What percentage of my build budget should go toward the graphics card? While a lot of advice says to aim for an even balance between the CPU and the GPU, some […]
During a J.P. Morgan conference this week, AMD CEO Lisa Su admitted what we all knew was happening anyway: Amidst a crippling industry-wide silicon shortage, AMD is prioritizing supplies of higher-end (and […]
RGB doesn’t come cheap. A single fan costs about $15, and if you get a three-pack, the cheapest you can go is about $10 per fan for a non-major brand. Outfitting a […]
For years, a lack of processor performance doomed AMD to the value notebook space with its A-series processors. Now, the tables have turned: AMD is taking its powerful Zen 2 architecture and […]
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Go 2 on Wednesday, an updated model that goes to 11 by swapping in a more powerful 11th-gen Intel Core processor and a full-fledged Windows 11 install, […]
We’re getting closer and closer to a wide rollout of Intel’s first-gen Arc desktop graphics cards, or at least we should be. Initially the results of testing from the low-end Arc 380 […]
AMD launched “Mendocino” on Tuesday, the first of its Ryzen 7000 Mobile processors that will extend into 2023. These new U-series chips use older AMD Zen 2 technology that debuted in Ryzen […]
