Items tagged with Gaming PC
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 23, 2025
Kids these days will never know what it was like living through the early days of home PCs, when floppy disks, sharp edges, and beige colorways ruled the landscape. They're about to get a history lesson of sorts, though, and from none...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 28, 2025
Corsair is expanding the range of its custom gaming PCs with the launch of the One i600, a "compact powerhouse PC" that promises to deliver more power, efficiency, and thermal performance compared to the One i500. It also gives buyers the...
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, May 14, 2025
These may be times of uncertainty in the market, but you shouldn't let that dissuade you from your healthy hobbies or passion projects, like building a great new gaming PC. Today, we bring you a build for moderate wallets, with an eye...
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Ben Funk - Tue, May 13, 2025
Alienware Area-51 (2025) - Starts at $3,399, $5,699 as tested Alienware completely revamped its classic gaming PC with the latest high-powered hardware and an effective cooling solution that takes a novel approach to airflow. ...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Apr 02, 2025
Maingear Apex Force PC: Starting at ~$6000 Maingear's beefiest gaming PC pairs stupendous specifications with custom cooling to create a machine that is both beautiful and bad-ass. Impeccable Attention To Detail Extravagant Maximalist...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 31, 2025
Maingear has once again retooled its sleek and well-crafted MG-1 desktop gaming PC lineup (see our review of a 2023 MG-1 config to see just how well put together these boutique machines are), this time with the latest generation CPU...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Mar 08, 2025
By many accounts, AMD's much-anticipated retail launch of its Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 went a little more smoothly compared to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series, in terms of day-one availability. Even so, the first wave of cards...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 03, 2025
The only 'vendors' with a standalone GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card in stock are greedy marketplace sellers and scalpers at places like eBay. Looking at some of the recently sold listings on eBay, we're seeing card go for $1,600 to $2,150...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 04, 2025
Back at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month, Dell announced several new products, including a retooled Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC. At the time, it promised to equip the refreshed desktop with NVIDIA's...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Feb 02, 2025
Outside of camping out in front of a Micro Center location days ahead of the retail release, scoring a GeForce RTX 5090 has been a near-impossible proposition. Even pitching a tent was not a guarantee of procuring NVIDIA's newest flagship...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 21, 2025
Hot on the heels of NVIDIA unveiling its GeForce RTX 50 series in both mobile and desktop form, OEMs and hardware partners have followed suit with product refreshes of their own, and they're starting to appear at retail. We saw this with...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
We're midway through this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and are continuing to see some cool new product releases and concepts. One that we can add to the list is MSI's Meg Vision X AI, a desktop gaming PC that is a dual CES 2025...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 05, 2024
The original Wii console (not to be confused with the Wii U) is one of the most popular game consoles of all time, and Nintendo's fourth-best selling console ever at 101.63 million units, trailing only the Game Boy (118.69 million units)...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 11, 2024
In case you're not aware, Intel this week officially launched its Core Ultra 200S processor series, otherwise known as Arrow Lake, which bring some exciting design tweaks and big performance and power efficiency claims to the desktop. As...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 03, 2024
If you've ever thought to yourself, 'Self, what you really need is a gaming PC that looks like a friggin' shark straight out of the movie Jaws', then you'll be pleased as punch to know that Cooler Master will happily sell you one. The...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 15, 2024
If you get your kicks out of custom PCs that are out of the ordinary (like, way out of the ordinary), then you may have had Cooler Master's Sneaker X on your radar. In case you missed it, it looks like a gigantic shoe, or just a regular...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 08, 2024
Anytime there's a new processor or graphics card launch, system builders are quick to update their product lines. Such is the case with AMD's newfangled Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors base on Zen 5. One of the first to pounce...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 01, 2024
For the past several months, NZXT’s been low-key offering to rent fully assembled desktop gaming PCs with RTX hardware inside for a monthly fee. The program is called Flex and you might not have heard it, because for whatever reason, it...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 17, 2024
We typically like to build our own rigs around these parts, and if you do too, be sure to check out our recommendations on discounted Prime Day parts to piece together a bodacious gaming PC for ~$1,000. Of course, there are benefits to...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 03, 2024
It appears we have some clarity on what components Corsair will be shoving inside its upcoming One i500 desktop gaming PC that it teased last week. Spoiler alert: AMD's upcoming Zen 5 processors aren't in the plans, at least not for the...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 24, 2024
Update 4/25/24:
Corsair reached out to us to clarify the date format as mm-dd-yyyy, and confirm that May 5, 2024 is when it will be unveiling its Corsair One i500 gaming desktops with "next-gen components." That's only about a week and...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Mar 13, 2024
Maingear ZERO Legendary Boost Gaming PC: As Configured - $3,389 @ Maingear The culmination of over a decade of design, Maingear's ZERO moves critical connectors to the back of the motherboard, giving it the cleanest looks of any computer...
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