Paul Lilly
Recent posts
Building a PC is not all that difficult, but assembling a totally silent (or even near silent) rig? That takes a little more research and finesse. It can also require making compromises, but to ensure that the power supply unit (PSU) is...
Read more...
We don't know who still needs to hear this, but don't ever pay full price for a set of earbuds or headphones (or speakers, for that matter). Not even if it's a brand new time that just came out because it's only a matter of time before the...
Read more...
For a while there (and still, in some cases), finding a modern generation graphics card at MSRP is considered deal. Forget that noise, though, because over the last couple of months, we've seen GPU pricing finally stabilize to the point...
Read more...
NVIDIA is pushing out an out-of-band GPU driver update to resolve an issue introduced with Microsoft's October 2025 update for Windows 11 (KB5066835). According to NVIDIA, the Windows 11 update can hamper performance in some unspecified...
Read more...
NVIDIA is making a habit of posting record earnings each quarter, and that trend continued into Q3 with the company reporting $57 billion in revenue. That's a giant 25% uptick from its previous quarter, and an even bigger 66% spike from...
Read more...
The year is 2025 (for a few more weeks, anyway) and guess what? We've reached a point where buying a monster-sized TV doesn't have to require a beastly budget. We took a look around at some early Black Friday deals and found several...
Read more...
ASUS has begun accepting preorders for its funktastic ROG Matrix Platinum GeForce RTX 5090, though you'll need a big wad of cash to bring one home. The custom GPU sports a unique design with four fans, including three on the front side of...
Read more...
An event at Cloudflare that crippled large portions of the internet yesterday was not caused by a cyber attack or malicious activity, either directly or indirectly, the company confirmed in a blog. If that's the case, then what caused all...
Read more...
Talk about a literally cold move. Barely a week after Patriot Memory and Gigabyte tag teamed a DDR5 world overclocking record at 13,211.4 MT/s (6,605.7 MHz), G.Skill and ASUS said, 'Hold our beer' and stole the speed crown in collaboration...
Read more...
Cloudflare is scrambling to fix a major issue that is wreaking havoc across the web. Following rounds of scheduled maintenance at datacenters in various locations, Cloudflare’s status dashboard confirms the firm is dealing with “internal service degradation” that is intermittently affecting...
Read more...
You spoke and Dell's Alienware division heard you—the latest-generation AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 5 are now an option on the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC, the same one we reviewed in May and which earned our coveted Editor's...
Read more...
It's not too often that we see Sony's top wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 go on sale, so it certainly got our attention when we spotted it discounted 20% off MSRP. It's a rare discount that drops the price of Sony's premium...
Read more...
Best Buy has been aggressive in serving up Black Friday deals this year, including so-called 'doorbuster' bargains way ahead of the actual Black Friday date. That's just fine by us—in recent years, Black Friday has morphed from a single...
Read more...
Belkin is coordinating with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission on a recall of tens of thousands of portable battery banks and wireless charging stands. That's far less thank Anker's power bank recall in September, but...
Read more...
Apple is expected to release an AirTag 2 tracker at some point, perhaps even by the end of the year. Nothing is official, though, and with Black Friday deals arriving early, the current generation AirTag can be had for a great price...
Read more...
Like so many companies, Razer and its retail partners are already dishing up Black Friday deals with enticing discounts. As such, now is your chance to score a Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop for hundreds of dollars below MSRP, as well as a...
Read more...
Now that we're midway through November, the Black Friday discounts are coming in faster and more furious. And sure, the actual Black Friday date is still two weeks away, but retailers are not sitting around waiting. You shouldn't either...
Read more...
Intel remains the dominant player in the x86 space when it comes to market share, both overall and in individual segments such as desktop, server, and mobile. However, AMD continues to chip away at its rival's big lead, as we had been seeing. According to the latest data by Mercury Research...
Read more...
One thing that's often said in sports is that records are meant to be broken. That applies to the sport of overclocking, and to that end, Patriot Memory's Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 memory just set a validated memory frequency record, with...
Read more...
It took a while, but you can finally snag a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card by one of NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners for less than NVIDiA's baseline MSRP. MSI is the the one serving up the deal, through Newegg, though the only...
Read more...
Ahead of Microsoft's next Ignite event, which kicks off in San Francisco (and online) next Tuesday, November 18, the company's president of Windows and Devices shared a message on X about the direction Windows is headed it didn't land...
Read more...
Valve is releasing a handful of new gaming hardware, including an updated Steam Controller, a standalone VR headset called Steam Frame, and the return of the Steam Machine, this time in a compact cube design that's unofficially been dubbed...
Read more...
