Paul Lilly

In a surprise twist, Amazon confirmed it will not be hosting a Black Friday deals event this year, nor will it celebrate Cyber Monday with any bargains. Shocking, right? Well, it would be if it were true, but we’re just kidding! Of COURSE Amazon will be partaking in the deals season, and it’s so stoked about the upcoming event that it’s teasing big discounts for “millions of deals.” Amazon is also providing guidance on when

At what point does the refresh rate of a gaming monitor reach diminishing returns, or otherwise become inconsequential? Ask any monitor maker and they’ll tell you, ‘Get out of here with such silly questions, gaming peasant!’. Okay, they probably wouldn’t be as crass in their answer, but the latest evidence that monitor makers have no intention of slowing down is AOC’s new Agon Pro AG276KF display. The AG276KF is a display with a 27-inch ‘Fast

AMD continues to chip away at rival Intel’s lead in desktop processor market share, with a not-insignificant 5.7% leap in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest auditing figures by Mercury Research. And compared to a year ago, AMD saw its share of the desktop CPU space increase by nearly 10%, falling less than half a percentage point short of double-digit growth. What’s especially notable about the huge upticks sequentially and especially year-over-year

Gigabyte has gone and quietly introduced its first mini-ITX form factor motherboard based on AMD’s X870 chipset, and from the renders we’ve seen, it’s quite the looker. As the model name implies, Gigabyte’s new Aorus X870I Pro Ice mostly ditches a darker colorway for a white (and off-white) motif that, in the right build, could make a small form factor (SFF) gaming PC really pop. The caveat is that since this is a smaller motherboard,

Want to know more about Intel’s newest chip architecture for the desktop, Arrow Lake? Then be sure to join us tomorrow, 11/8/24, at 2:00 PM ET for a LIVE discussion with Intel’s VP and GM, Client AI & Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock. We’re going to geek out with Hallock on a deep dive discussion of Intel’s Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake desktop processors and platforms. This is your chance to gain some interesting insight from

At some point, we’ll have to scale back our coverage of a high-tech game of leapfrog involving two notable hardware teams—ASUS paired with G.Skill, and MSI teamed with Kingston. Both sets have joined forces with professional overclockers to claim (and reclaim) DDR5 speed records, with the new speed to beat set at DDR5-12196. That’s good for the top spot on HWBOT and it comes less than a week after professional overclocker ‘safedisk’ set the record

Don’t you hate it when companies skimp on storage? We’re looking at you, Apple, but not only you. Part of the reason (beyond greed) is a balance between cost and capacity, with whatever storage options are available at any given moment. In a move that could see manufacturers beef up the baseline storage on future devices, Kioxia today announced its has begun mass producing what it says is industry’s first Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 4.0

Do you need to upgrade your PC gaming battle station with a racing wheel or other peripheral? Or maybe you’re in the market for a gaming laptop or handheld, like Lenovo’s Legion Go. If so, then consider Best Buy’s weekend gaming sale to be fortuitous timing. It’s a three-day event that actually began yesterday and runs through this Sunday, with a bunch of gaming gear on discount. Once such item is the original ASUS ROG

There have been several developments in the DDR5 memory space over the past week and slightly beyond, such as G.Skill unveiling its sleek and fast Trident Z5 CK DDR5-9600 memory for Arrow Lake, and both G.Skill and Kingston jockeying for the fastest overclocked DDR5 frequency. If that’s not enough to get you stoked over this new era of CU-DIMMs, then perhaps this well be—Corsair has taken to X/Twitter to tease what could end up being

How quickly things can change, eh? When DDR5 first came onto the scene, the speed-to-price ratio was underwhelming, to say the least. It didn’t take long for pricing to settle way down, but speeds didn’t seem to ramp all that quickly afterward. Now with the introduction of CU-DIMMs, we’re seeing memory makers hit new speed tiers, both within the retail sector and of course in the overclocking scene, with G.Skill and Kingston jockeying for pole