GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

A tour de force for Nvidia's Ada Lovelace

Manage hardware with Windows 11

KEEPING TABS ON THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS and peripherals that make up your PC's hardware can be a time-consuming task, but Windows 11 has you covered. The operating system has long offered a myriad of tools for managing and tweaking your hardware but has traditionally struggled to make them easily accessible and sensibly organized.

Apple Watch Ultra

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Ethereum ends mining, EVGA exits GPU market

THE PC LANDSCAPE IS ABOUT TO see the biggest upheaval in years. AMD Zen 4 CPUs, Intel Raptor Lake, Nvidia Ada Lovelace, and AMD RDNA 3 are all here or coming soon. But perhaps just as big and impactful on the PC enthusiast community is the successful transition of Ethereum from proof of work mining to proof of stake minting—the very next day, EVGA announced that it would be closing down its graphics card division.

Logitech Goes Cloud Gaming

Logitech's handheld is like a customized smartphone for streaming games from the cloud.

STADIA'S DEAD

Google pulls out of cloud gaming

Nvidia's Hot New Card

Both metaphorically and literally

Nvidia's Lovelace letdown

TRADE CHAT | IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE this way. 2022 had all the makings of a stellar year for PC graphics, so good it would make up for the pandemic- and crypto-fueled bubble. Alas, Nvidia has kicked off the latest round of GPU launches with the RTX 40 Series, otherwise known as Lovelace. And it’s a crushing disappointment. It’s also worrying for AMD’s upcoming GPUs.

NVIDIA'S ADA LOVELACE ARCHITECTURE

Potentially the biggest jump in generational GPU performance ever

History of Apple

With Apple now in its fourth decade, Craig Grannell explores some of the key products from its history, the impact they had on gaming, and the sometimes surprising impact that gaming had on Apple itself

Corsair 7000D Airflow

Massive case and makes the Intel NUCs look tiny

BenQ X3000i

ARE YOU LOOKING to create an exciting and fun space in which to sit back and unwind?

LINUX IN SPACE!

With the OS now established in astronautics, Mike Bedford looks at its future prospects

HyperX DuoCast

HyperX's midrange mic suffers from middle child syndrome

Mountain Everest Max

This keyboard does it all-and has plenty of customization

HP Elite Dragonfly G3

Epic battery lite, but otherwise a bit borked

Backforce V

High-end gaming chair engineering at a more affordable price

NZXT Canvas 32Q Curved

A fine, but not fantastic, 165Hz gaming panel

MSI Aegis Ti5 12th

An OTT design and OTT performance, is this a winning combo for MSI?

Intel Arc A380 by Gunnir

This sinking ship needs a better driver

INTEL 2.0

Graphics chips such as AMD's Navi 21 GPU have long been a TSMC specialty.

Corsair K70 Pro Mini Wireless

Is this small and quirky keyboard worthy of its hefty price tag?

ASRock RX 6750 XT Phantom Gaming D

Graphics prices falling down, falling down…

Framework Laptop

Do-It-Yourself Upgradeable Laptop