Remembering Microsoft’s “biggest” 40 lb. software release
Today you can get everything from the latest operating system to a 150GB PC game over an internet connection, if you’re willing to wait long enough. But in the days when internet […]
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The best benchmarking software for PC
You’ve spent months planning, researching, and painstakingly putting together every component in your beloved gaming rig. Now it’s time to see what it can do. Much like a virtuoso pianist will practice […]
Best game capture software 2023
Sharing recordings of your gameplay is a relatively recent phenomenon, but believe it or not, watching someone play a video game is about as old as the pastime itself. When Q-bert and […]
The best PC hardware and software of 2022/2023
After years of shortages and product delays, the PC industry slammed on the gas pedal in 2022, unleashing bleeding-edge hardware at a truly frenetic pace. A wave of long-lasting, heavy-hitting laptops started […]
AMD’s Radeon 7000 laptop GPUs pack clever software tricks
Not to be outdone by Nvidia, AMD’s graphics business opened CES with four new mobile RDNA3 GPUs, along with upgrades to the accompanying graphics technologies. AMD launched the Radeon RX 7600M XT […]
You can’t trust Google results for software downloads right now
Not even a month ago, sharp-eyed Redditors noticed that searching for AMD graphics card drivers on Google served up a shady text ad as the first result. Our advice then (as now) […]
How Samsung software makes Galaxy phones and PCs better together
Have you ever purchased a PC not because of the hardware, but because of the software? No, not Windows — the apps. Samsung is absolutely determined that you will — and invest […]
MSI ransomware hack: Watch out for malicious fake software
Modern corporations are under near-constant attack by malicious hackers and other digital no-goodniks, and gaming hardware makers are no exception. Such is the case for MSI, which confirmed to its customers that […]
Alert: MSI and Intel software keys are in the wild
The next time you need to download drivers for your MSI laptop or motherboard, make damn sure you’re getting it straight from the source. That’s pretty good advice for any kind of […]
Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs kickstart the AI PC era. Software will be key
The AI PC, propelled by Intel’s Meteor Lake, is almost here. So why should you care? It’s the billion-dollar question. Intel is building NPU AI inferencing engines into its processors beginning with […]
