Lisuan Explained: Why Building a GPU Takes More Than Money
China has spent enormous amounts of money trying to build a more independent semiconductor industry. And, to be fair, money solves…
Tag: pc hardware
FPS vs. Frametime: Why Games Stutter at High FPS
The FPS counter says 120. Your graphics card is comfortably within its temperature limit. You have already lowered several settings,…
Tech Explained: Laptop vs Desktop on Power Consumption
“Your desktop has a 750W power supply? Wow, your electricity bill must be terrifying.” If you’ve ever owned a desktop…
CXMT Explained: Can China Break the Global Memory Monopoly?
When you buy a Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill, or TeamGroup memory kit, you probably assume the company printed on the heat…
Unified Memory Explained: Why AI Is Changing How Computer Memory Works
For a long time, buying computer memory was relatively simple. You needed enough RAM to keep Windows, your browser and…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Wants to Be Your GPU, CPU and Coworker
For most of its history, NVIDIA has been an extremely successful tenant inside the personal computer. Intel or AMD owned…
Tech Explained: Heat — Understanding Thermal Throttling and Why Cooling Matters
Walk into any PC hardware forum and you’ll find people arguing about CPU coolers like they’re choosing Formula 1 engineers.…
PC Shipments Slip in Q2 2026 as Component Costs Turn Up the Heat
The global PC market lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations falling…
415W RTX 5080 SUPER ‘Leak’ Raises New Questions
The most interesting thing about the latest GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER rumor is not just the wattage. It is what that wattage…
Steam Hardware Survey: June 2026 — Windows 11 Surges, AMD Gains on Steam
For years, PC gaming had a kind of comforting inertia to it. Windows 10 was the default, Intel kept a…
Bolt Wants to Crash the GPU Competition and It’s Starting With Creators, Not Gamers
For a market that has spent years acting like “GPU competition” means choosing which Nvidia card you can’t afford this…
DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction Is Aiming at the Messiest Part of Ray Tracing
Nvidia has spent most of 2026 upgrading DLSS piece by piece, but the latest update may be the one graphics…
Bad Benchmarks, Big Demand: How Lisuan Tech Sold 30,000 GPUs Anyway
You would think a new graphics card needs killer benchmarks to make a splash. Apparently not. Chinese GPU startup Lisuan Tech has…
ASUS Just Launched Its First ROG DDR5 Memory Kit, and It Comes With a Built-In Personality Shift
ASUS has finally stepped into the memory market with something that feels very on-brand: flashy, expensive, a little dramatic, and…
ASUS’s Premium GPU Cable May Be Solving the Wrong Problem
ASUS launched its ROG Equalizer cable with a pretty clear promise: better load balancing than standard 12V-2×6 connectors. On paper,…
Ryzen 9950X3D2 Review Debacle Raises Awkward Questions
There are messy product launches, and then there are launches that make the whole review ecosystem look like someone started…
AMD’s 3D V-Cache Just Found a New Party Trick: Supercharging Local RAG AI
AMD’s X3D chips have spent the last few years building a reputation as the go-to CPUs for gaming. More cache,…
ASUS’ ROG Equalizer Cable Is the Latest Attempt to Stop 16-Pin GPU Meltdowns
The 16-pin GPU power connector saga continues, because apparently the PC industry has decided that one of its most expensive…
Steam Frame Estimator Could Turn Steam Into a Better PC Buying Guide
For years, buying a PC game has involved a little ritual of optimism, guesswork, and mild self-deception. You look at…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Looks More Like a Workstation Flex Than a Gamer’s Dream
AMD has finally put a price tag on its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, and it is not exactly…