Paul Lilly
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Hot on the heels of releasing the Arc A580 for gamers on a budget, Intel has released a new WHQL-certified Arc GPU driver (version 31.0.101.4887) that's tuned for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, as well as Total War: PHARAOH and...
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Amazon's second Prime Day of 2023 has concluded, but as it turns out the best bargain for a gaming desktop was not a Prime Day deal, or even a discounted PC for that matter. Instead, it's a sub-$900 setup with some surprising hardware...
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Do you know what would have gotten my 15-year-old me totally jazzed? Having my own home arcade rather than lugging a fistful of quarters to the local co-op joint (RIP Malibu Grand Prix in Rowland Heights, CA). I'm a fistful of decades...
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It finally happened—Sony took the wraps off a new PlayStation console, though it's not a more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro. Instead, Sony launched the inevitable PlayStation 5 Slim refresh in both Blu-ray and Digital (disc-less) form, both...
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Qualcomm is introducing a new naming convention under its Snapdragon brand, as it looks to make a more aggressive entrance into the intelligent PC space. It's called Snapdragon X series and while details are light at the moment, we can...
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Amazon's second Prime Day sales event of 2023 has officially arrived and with it comes a whole lot of discounts across a wide range of products categories. We'll be keeping a pulse on the situation over the course of today and tomorrow...
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What do you get when you pair of the best gaming mice to one of the most beloved movie franchises of all time? Logitech just answered that question by launching the G502 X Plus Millennium Falcon Edition gaming mouse, a delightfully themed...
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Samsung is apparently not finished rolling out new hardware releases this fall. In addition to making a splash with the Galaxy S23 FE with an upgrade path to Android 17, Galaxy Buds FE, and both 10.9-inch and 12.4-inch Galaxy Tab S9 FE...
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This month marks the two-year anniversary of Windows 11 and by the numbers, many of you reading this on a Windows PC are rocking Microsoft's latest-generation operating system. However, even more of you are running Windows 10. A lot more...
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The holiday shopping season filled with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals is right around the corner (they typically begin trickling in at the beginning of November). Before that, Amazon will host its second Prime Day deals event of...
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Silicon Power is getting ready to release the XPower XS80, a "groundbreaking" solid state drive (SSD) with a PCI Express 5.0 interface paving the way for incredibly fast sequential read and write speeds on supported platforms. Of course...
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For the most part, laptops are portable and desktops are stationary, right? Well, not so fast. PC makers have always pushed the boundaries of each respective form factor, including big and bulky laptops classified as desktop replacements...
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For such a fast gaming monitor, ASUS sure is taking its sweet time releasing its ROG Swift Pro PG248QP, which it unveiled at CES earlier this year. Now nine months later, ASUS has anointed the fastest gaming monitor it's ever built with a...
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If you own an Intel Arc graphics card, congratulations, you're about to receive a huge performance boost in a whole bunch of games. All you have to do is apply the latest Arc GPU driver, version 31.0.101.4885. According to the release...
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What do you do if you're coming off a $7.97 billion quarter and are forecasting next quarter's revenue to be $8.2 billion? Well if you're Netflix, apparently you raise prices (again) for your streaming service. Unfortunately, the cost of...
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Intel's share price is up in after market hours following the announcement of its plans to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) into a standalone business, followed by an eventual IPO. The chip maker says the move will give the...
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Time has reportedly run out for Apple's original smartwatch released in 2015, including those ultra-fancy and expensive 18-karat gold models that sold for up to $17,000 a pop, or $18,500 with an AppleCare+ warranty. According to an...
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The results are in for the most recent Steam survey and according to the numbers, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 is now the most widely-represented GPU on the world's most popular digital distribution platform for games. To get there, it had to...
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Sneakerheads rejoice, Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC is now available to preorder. While the Sneaker X is a shoo-in (or should we say shoe-in?) for the most bizarre looking PC, it's laced without some serious firepower to kick low...
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You can add Lenovo to the list of PC makers jumping aboard Google's Chromebook Plus initiative for premium-tier Chromebooks that meet a specific set of hardware requirements, including at least an Intel 12th Gen Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 7000...
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By my count, there are about a million ways to satiate your appetite for retro gaming, be it through emulation on modern hardware or re-releases of old school systems with features adapted for today. Make that a million and one...
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Oh look, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked an all-new single board computer (SBC) to serve as its flagship dish for hobbyists, tinkerers, and modders, and it looks absolutely enticing. Scheduled to release next month, the Raspberry Pi...
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