Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It’s not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and – as soon as this spring – Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptops […]
AMD announced an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor at CES earlier this month, and it’s now confirming a release date and pricing today. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D will debut on January 29th, priced at $499. That’s $20 more than the initial retail pricing of the 9800X3D, and this faster 9850X3D […]
Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month? It’s still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent Bluetooth gamepad. But there’s another way. Christopher Klay, who previously developed the Stadia Enhanced browser extension, is one of many who […]
Hall effect switches are the most customizable and fastest you can currently get in a gaming keyboard. As such, they don’t usually come cheap. However, they’re fairly affordable to upgrade to today thanks to a deal on Corsair’s Vanguard Pro 96, which is cheaper than ever at Amazon and Best Buy, selling for $159.99 (originally […]
Bungie is putting an official date on Marathon today, its delayed extraction shooter. The slick-looking shooter from the makers of Halo and Destiny was originally set to release in September, but will now launch on March 5th. Bungie will launch Marathon on Xbox Series S / X, PS5, and PC, priced at $39.99. Bungie initially […]
We’re back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, which we taped in front of a terrific audience at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas during CES. Razer is obviously best known for making mice, keyboards, and gaming PCs in its signature black and bright green, with […]
As we predicted, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs – not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD. But if you dig deep, AMD said two things […]
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and blaming “incomplete information” from its own Asus PR representatives. “The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX […]
On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus “explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as such, they have placed the model into end-of-life status.” They added that the same applies to Asus’s 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and mentioned how […]
Nvidia is rolling out a new app update today that includes its latest DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Nvidia Surround settings. DLSS 4.5 includes Nvidia’s second-generation Super Resolution transformer model, designed to improve image quality and reduce the artifacting found in DLSS 4. While DLSS 4.5 was available in the beta version of the Nvidia […]