Happy Pi Day! Find out how fast your laptop can calculate Pi
The nerdiest day of the year is officially here again: March 14, or Pi day. Yes, the day when all jokes end in 3.1415. To celebrate Pi day—the ratio of a circle’s […]
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The SSDs of the future will be so fast, they might need active fans
In just a few years, new computer users won’t be able to remember the days when data was stored on spinning magnetic disks. The conventional hard drive will be about as relevant […]
Tested: Multi-gig fiber internet is too fast for your PC
If you’re about to bite the bullet on a blazing-fast multi-gig internet deal, you might just have to upgrade your PC’s storage drive and CPU too. I know this because besides having […]
The first PCIe 5.0 SSDs for consumers are face-meltingly fast
Next-gen desktops are packing some pretty impressive capabilities, but perhaps the most exciting for the widest slice of users is the upgrade to the fifth generation of PCIe connections. That’ll mean expanded […]
How fast is the Dell XPS 17?
The XPS series is Dell’s most premium, drool-worthy line, making some of the best laptops on the market, and the XPS 17 is the model with the most room for juicy high-end […]
Blisteringly fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs debut in November
If you want to build the fastest PC you can around AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processor, you’re going to have to wait until November. New SSDs built using the PCI Express 5.0 […]
AMD’s RDNA 3 Radeon RX 7900 is fast, radical, and cheaper than Nvidia
The GeForce RTX 4090 is an absolute monster of a graphics card, but the battle for the next generation of GPUs is only getting started. On Thursday, AMD revealed its own 4K […]
Intel’s 13th-gen Core laptop CPUs hit blisteringly fast speeds
Intel launched its entire 13th-gen Core (“Raptor Lake”) mobile processor lineup Tuesday morning at CES 2023 for laptop and gaming PCs, spearheaded by the 24-core Raptor Lake-HX platform and the Core i9-13950HX, […]
Microsoft’s blisteringly fast DirectStorage tech finally arrives on PC
We’ve been waiting for Microsoft’s DirectStorage—the backbone of the Xbox Series X’s ultra-fast storage technology—to come to Windows for years now. After being released to developers last spring, it’s finally here, sinking […]
Windows PCs reveal hidden screenshot info, but a fast fix is coming
The built-in screenshot tool in Windows has been given a major upgrade in the last few years. Initially the Snipping Tool was part of the PowerToys collection, before getting a major boost […]
