Why does GPU pricing have to be so infuriating?

I NOTED A WHILE BACK that prices of pretty much everything had normalized with the pandemic receding and other supply chain abnormalities subsiding. The one exception were GPUs. Several months later, while graphics cards are cheaper, they still haven't returned to historical trends. But what's even more frustrating is that pricing just doesn't make sense.

GREEN PCs MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

The world's biggest PC maker says it can achieve net-zero by 2050. Barry Collins visits Lenovo's US headquarters to get his hands on plant-based PCs, bamboo packaging, and vegan leather covers

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

The best $500 GPU around

Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra

Watch out MacBook Pro; Samsung has you in its sights

Asus Vivobook Pro 16X

A creative laptop with a playful side

XGIMI Horizon Ultra

A truly outstanding 4K projector with Dolby Vision

OneXPlayer OneXFly

Lighter, smaller, faster, stronger

Samsung GDDR7 Heads for 32Gbps

DRAM IS AT THE HEART of many computing devices. Whether it's DDR4 and DDR5 in PCs, HBM2 and HBM3 in GPUs, or GDDR6 and GDDR6X in graphics cards, a lot of the building blocks remain the same. It's the signaling that get upgraded, and now GDDR7 is on its way, with Samsung modules in production and Micron's alternatives to arrive in 2024.

THE BEST GAMING MONITORS

PICTURE THE SCENE: you’ve bought the best CPU and GPU you can afford, and you’re kitted up with a game-winning keyboard and mouse.

Razer Cobra Pro

An excellent all-rounder that performs admirably

5 Compelling Reasons to Buy a Windows Laptop Instead of a MacBook

MacBooks are powerful and chic. That's also true of many Window Notebooks - And they have other advantages that MacBook can't counter.

Build Your Own Cloud Storage

Don't trust third parties with your data? Nick Peers has the answer...

Intel's messy roadmap

Three lakes, two sockets, and lots of confusion

Drop Lord of the Rings Dwarvish ENTR

As sturdy as a stout dwarf but basic under the skin

CHOOSE THE BEST VPN PROVIDER

Nate Drake gives you the rundown on how to select the very best VPN service for your needs

Corsair HS80 Max Wireless

Revised mid-tier headset from Corsair has plenty of features in its arsenal

Kingston XS1000

Good things come in small packages

AOKZOE A1 Pro

Definitely more than a Deck, but is it better than a ROG Ally?

MAKE WINDOWS GREAT AGAIN

Microsoft has made many unwelcome and unnecessary changes to Windows 10 and 11. Robert Irvine reveals how to reverse all the ways it has messed up its operating system

BEYOND MOORE'S LAW

Moore's Law is mostly dead, yet it stumbles ominously forward. Jeremy Laird investigates whether the Lord of Light can revive computing's prospects or are they already zombified?

THREADRIPPER REACHES 96 CORES

New Zen 4 chip is a beast

NVIDIA'S AI GOLDMINE

Three lakes, two sockets, and lots of confusion

AMD has canceled some GPUs, but don't panic!

SPEND ENOUGH TIME in this game and you get a feel for rumors that are very likely true. And I'm getting the sense that the latest ones suggesting AMD has ditched the high-end variants of its next-gen RDNA 4 graphics family are on the money. At first glance, this seems pretty disastrous, especially given how expensive gaming GPUs have become and how desperately we need somebody to put Nvidia under pressure. But is it? Is it actually?

Mountain Makalu Max

A great wired gaming mouse, but sometimes a frustrating wireless one

Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 G95SC

An OLED experience on an absolutely epic scale

Skytech Chronos 2

Cost-effective gaming that comes with a couple of caveats

Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can allow attackers to steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys.