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With game streaming, you’re able to enjoy Xbox titles in areas of the home away from where the console is based, which is usually the living room. You could play the games on your bedroom/office desktop, for example, or in the backyard on something like a Surface device – assuming you’ve got a strong enough network. Anyone who has a Steam Link will be familiar with the system. It essentially mirrors what’s on the Xbox One’s screen to your Windows 10 device....

The flagship Pro model features a 6.8-inch, 120Hz AMOLED display (1,080 x 2,400) coated in Corning Gorilla Glass Victus that’s driven by a 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chip alongside a Mali-G710 GPU, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The star of the show is the portrait shooter, which captures 50MP images using 1.28µm pixels and an f/1.49 aperture lens with a 65mm focal length. With that much reach, it can also double as a decent telephoto....

Let’s backtrack for a moment and catch you up with the full story of Ryzen Mobile laptops. The first devices to use Ryzen Mobile launched at the tail end of 2017, and while performance in some cases was pretty good thanks to the powerful integrated GPU, it quickly became apparent that work was still needed on the software side. GPU-accelerated productivity apps crashed frequently or didn’t work at all, there were issues playing some games on the laptops despite having enough GPU horsepower, plus there were plenty of odds and ends that needed tidying up with new drivers....

The first AS SSD Benchmark test focuses on sequential read performance and here we see that a single OCZ Vertex 4 or Intel SSD 520 Series SSD can achieve a throughput of just over 500MB/s using the SATA 6Gb/s interface. However, placing the Intel SSD 520 Series drive in the Duo reduced its throughput to just 366.5MB/s. The Velociraptor HDDs on the other hand delivered similar performance when connected to the motherboard as they did inside the Duo....

Nvidia and AMD graphics card prices have been crashing in recent months due to waning demand, the fall of GPU mining, oversupply, and companies rushing to clear inventory ahead of the next-generation RTX 4000 and Radeon 7000 launches. The RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 variants have seen some big drops. Joining them is AMD’s second-from-top card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which is now available for under $700. In our review of the RX 6900 XT last year, we found it outperformed the RTX 3090 across 18 games at both 1080p and 1440p....

Having revealed the Agon Pro AG344UXM in China earlier this year, AOC has now confirmed pricing and availability outside of the country. One of the highlights of the monitor is that it features Mini LED backlights, something we’ve seen in a few high-end options such as the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 and Asus ROG Swift PG32UQX. AOC says the Agon Pro AG344UXM has 1,152 dimming zones and can reach 1,000 nits for HDR content and 600 nits for SDR....

Best Value / Best 5600 XT Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT When it comes to Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards, this is about the only category that matters, and that’s because the 5600 XT is a cut-down 5700, which is a lower-clocked 5700 XT, and therefore you don’t want to go spending 5700 money on a fancy 5600 XT. Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards have been known to go on sale for as low as $300....

There are many factors to consider when buying a new phone, but for most people the crucial element is price. Are you willing to shell out over a grand on the latest and greatest phone, or will a $350 mid-range champion suffice? We’ve also picked our favorite foldables, in case you’ve gotten bored with traditional, candy bar phones. To help you navigate the multitude of phone options and help in your decision, we’ve collected and organized our top picks into 5 categories, based on features, value and price....

Portable apps don’t modify the Windows registry or leave behind configuration files on the host computer. This is especially useful in situations where you may not have administrative rights to install software, on public computers at a library, university, or at work. HWINFO Portable While phones can certainly allow us to be productive on the go when needed, it’s not always as glamorous as it sounds. It may be technically possible to do things like hammering out a document for your boss, touching up a photo, or editing some code thanks to the cornucopia of mobile apps on the market, but we’re most efficient when we have the right tool for the job, and often times that tool is a bona fide computer....

The semi-randomly generated images of apes that make up the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) remain the most famous collection of non-fungible tokens. At the height of the NFT craze and before the crypto winter, celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon, were rushing to buy and promote them. We even saw a set sell at Sotheby’s for a frankly bewildering $24.4 million. One of those to jump on the bandwagon was Justin Bieber....

It was back at CES 2018 when Samsung unveiled The Wall, a 146-inch modular MicroLED TV aimed at customers with homes as large as their bank balances. A 292-inch, 8K version was unveiled a year later. Samsung had intended to create a smaller, non-modular MicroLED television in a 70-inch size, but it reportedly dropped those plans to create larger models measuring 89 inches, 101 inches, and 114 inches. South Korean tech site The Elec now reports that Samsung has set the price for the cheapest, 89-inch model at $80,000....

Running off the momentum of its recent Half-Life 2: VR Mod beta release, SourceVR Mod Team revealed that it already has Half-Life 2: Episode One in working order. The fan-developed mod should launch sometime in Q1 2023, although the team didn’t indicate whether it would be a beta or fully complete. Considering that HL2: VR is still in beta on Steam, one of two things could happen. Since development undoubtedly coincided with the mod for the core game, Episode One could launch just as SourceVR releases the final version of HL2: VR....

Regular leaker Greymon55 recently tweeted that the next generation of product announcements/launches will be concentrated around September. They believe AMD’s Radeon 7000 GPUs (Raphael) will be announced next month and launch in September, while Intel’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs will be announced in September and launch in October. As for Nvidia, Greymon55 predicts it will announce the AD102 GPU in September and launch the following month. That GPU is the line’s flagship set to appear in the RTX 4090 and what’s expected to be an RTX 4090 Ti....

The report highlighted the growth in consumer spending on gaming hardware and accessories, which ballooned to more than $5.74 billion in 2021. The considerable 25 percent revenue increase comes on the heels of 2020’s massive 62 percent, $4.5 billion increase over 2019’s figures. The report breaks down the growth across several product categories, which were led by overall increased demand for desktop computers, laptops, and microphones. PC microphones and monitors once again topped the charts in volume growth, mirroring patterns from 2020’s reported increases....

Gaming at 1080p in Thief with anti-aliasing disabled allowed the GTX 480 to deliver 30fps, making the GTX 580 just 10% faster at 33fps. The GTX 680 offered huge gains over the GTX 580 at 48% faster – we suspect the 1536MB memory buffer was creating a bottleneck for the GTX 580. The GTX 780 was 24% faster than the GTX 680, while the GTX 780 Ti was 11% faster than the GTX 780....

There is a sense of pride in owning a product like the Level 10, whether it is the satisfaction you get from possessing something that is truly one of a kind or because it’s just downright expensive, it’s a great feeling. For those that can afford it, the Level 10 is an iconic case that will likely stay with you for a very long time. Having said that, enthusiasts tend to upgrade their computer about once a year, two at most....

The Nautilus is a 1,250-ton, 37.5 meter underwater superyacht. Unveiled at the recent Monaco Yacht Show, the vessel can function both as an on-water yacht and a submersible. In yacht mode, the Nautilus affords a spacious sun deck, a freshwater pool, a bar and a dining table. Inside, you will find a 50 square meter dinner and lounge area with four circular windows measuring nearly four meters in diameter each....

PC gamers old enough to remember life before the Internet made local multiplayer obsolete likely have fond memories of LAN parties. Before broadband, competing against your friends meant hauling your computer and monitor to a central location and physically linking everything together over a local area network (LAN). After ironing out all the network issues and getting everyone on the same page software-wise (a process that could take a full day or more), what often ensued was a junk food and caffeine-fueled marathon of gaming where trash talking reigned supreme, screen peeking was frowned upon and the concept of sleep was ridiculed....

PayPal says the accounts were accessed by unauthorized parties who were able to guess user credentials, most likely by utilizing massive data leaks from other sites. It highlights the dangers that come from people re-using their login username/password combinations across multiple websites. Password recycling is still concerningly common and can be avoided by using a good password manager. This type of attack gets its name from the bots that run lists of credentials into sites, stuffing login portals until they gain access....

As before, remember this is not meant to be taken too seriously, and if you happen to have one of these GPUs nestled away on your graphics card please don’t be offended. If you’re looking for any kind of Intel integrated graphics in this list, now that’d be both hilarious and offensive, but don’t fret, only discrete options apply. Worst Mobile GPU: Radeon M470X Kick starting the worst GPU picks we decided to go mobile, for the longest time mobile gaming has been pretty rubbish to be honest and AMD’s latest efforts on this front are about as, ahh… ordinary, as it gets....