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It was back in February when CEO Elon Musk promised the ability to play Steam games in some Tesla vehicles. That’s finally arrived as part of the holiday update. It’s noted that games verified to run on the Steam Deck will work in Model S & X (year 2022+) vehicles with 16GB of memory and Premium Connectivity. Tesla previously said its RDNA 2-powered (NAVI 23) infotainment system could compete with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X....

When moving a single large file, in this case a 6GB ISO, the Velociraptor 1TB drives achieved 151.3MB/s when coupled with the Duo and that increased 14% to 172.3MB/s when attached via SATA. The 520 Series managed a bandwidth of 172.9MB/s when connected to SATA, while it fell 19% to 145.6MB/s when inside the Duo. The program copy test is comprised of many small non-compressed files (6104 files totaling 2....

After such a decisive win, why would we bother hosting a rematch? Since then, AMD has improved its drivers dramatically for the RX 460 in addition to sponsoring several popular triple-A titles and launching the updated, fully enabled RX 560 for the same $100 as its predecessor. As you may know, the Radeon RX 460 was not the full Polaris 11 silicon, with just 896 cores enabled. This was discovered when some sneaky enthusiasts found a way to unlock all 1024 cores using a modified BIOS....

Throughout the year I have reviewed and got hands-on time with plenty of devices, especially from the Android camp simply because there’s such a sheer volume of them on the market today. I’ve used all the flagships from HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony, and more – some of those reviews are still in the pipeline – and below I’ve compiled my thoughts on what’s currently the best out there....

But which Chromebook is the best for you? We’ve gone through dozens of reviews, spec sheets, and browsed what’s sitting in stores to bring you a guide with a shortlist of solid choices. Best Premium Chromebook Acer Chromebook Spin 713 Price: $769 Best Mid-range Chromebook Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Price: $274 Best Budget Chromebook Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Chromebook 11 Price: $118 Best for Office Work Asus Chromebook Flip C536 Price: $370 Best for Students & Travel Lenovo Chromebook Duet Price: $258 Best for Kids Dell Chromebook 11 3100 Price: $259...

Generally speaking, the more powerful your CPU is, the bigger and better cooler you’ll need. This will vary across architectures depending on how efficient they are, how many cores, and at what frequencies your CPU runs. If your desktop PC needs a lot of power and you travel with it, you’re likely to feel safer with a radiator that’s attached to your case via 8 or 12 screws than with a huge chunk of metal hanging off your motherboard....

We’ve been testing and reviewing gaming monitors and putting together recommendations for distinct categories including 1080p, 1440p and 4K gaming monitors for the past few years. In this guide, we’re going to go through everything we’ve learned so far and all the latest models we tested to give you comprehensive advice on gaming monitor shopping. Also worth mentioning, if you’re not sure what monitor category is best for you, but you do have a specific budget in mind, a recent feature discusses the best monitors to buy at each price point between $100 and $1,000....

The R7 360 was good for 39fps at 1080p in Civilization: Beyond Earth, 11% faster than the GTX 750 Ti. However, the R7 370 didn’t fare quite as well falling short of the GTX 950’s 51fps by an 8% margin. The R9 380 once again took control over the GTX 960 as it was 4% faster. Finally, the R9 390 was just 1% slower than the GTX 970. Increasing to 1600p we found the R9 390X and GTX 980 delivering the exact same performance with an average of 69fps each....

Water cooling systems – whether they are a custom loop or an AIO – all follow the same basic principles. You have the reservoir, the pump, the radiator, the fans, some tubing, a block (for either the CPU, GPU, or both), and the water itself. Generally on different versions of AIOs or custom loops you may see some of these features as barely noticeable, for example, many AIOs have very small reservoirs that are not nearly as prominent as with other custom loops, but they are usually all there....

Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak has been making music with mechanical computer components for more than a decade. One of his earliest videos involved using a couple of floppy drives to play The Imperial March from Star Wars. The clip was published in 2011 and has amassed more than 6.7 million views to date. Zadrożniak’s latest creation, the Floppotron 3.0, pushes the PC hardware orchestra to new heights. On average, the rig consumes roughly 300 watts but can peak at around 1,200 watts with everything humming away at the same time....

The RedMagic 8 Pro features a 6.8-inch AMOLED display with a 1,116 x 2,380 resolution and a 120Hz maximum refresh rate. On the right side, there’s a pair of capacitive shoulder triggers and a dedicated switch that toggles game mode on or off. Hopefully, the latter can be remapped to act as an alert slider, as that would help it stand out more from other Android handsets. The phone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset coupled with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB or 512GB of UFS 4....

We heard in January that the Falcon 9’s second stage rocket, part of SpaceX’s first interplanetary mission launched from Florida in 2015, was going to hit the moon on March 4. The rocket did not have enough fuel to return to Earth’s atmosphere and burn up after that initial launch, and it “lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system,” meteorologist Eric Berger wrote, leaving it in a “chaotic orbit....

The Galaxy S22 has been hailed as an excellent option for those seeking a high-end phone that doesn’t carry a near (or more than) $1,000 price tag. Its 6.1-inch Infinity-O FHD+ (2340 x 1080) display offers 1,300 nits of peak brightness, making it great for outdoor use. The Plus variant, meanwhile, has a 6.6-inch screen and raises that max brightness to 1,750 nits. Both phones also boast 120Hz refresh rates for silky smooth scrolling....

We witnessed similar performance in the Content Creation test where the N3200XXX was 18% behind the DS211 and 31% slower than the desktop test system, but it still delivered 59% more performance than the LG N2A2. In an interesting turn of events, the N3200XXX outmuscled its competition in the Office Productivity test with a throughput of 41.3MB/s. It was 11% faster than our desktop and 23% faster than the Synology DS211, which oddly ranked behind the LG N2A2....

This article came about because we were interested in comparing five years worth of Nvidia flagship GPUs in modern games using the latest drivers. The graph below shows the total number of frames per second that each GPU delivered in the nine games we tested during this article (excluding The Crew because of its 60fps cap). Charting the results from all three resolutions offers a clear idea of the performance difference between each generation as they exist today....

The GTX 980 system consumed just 244 watts, 23% less than the GTX 780 Ti. The GTX 780 Ti used 13% more power than the GTX 780, while the GTX 780 pulled 11% more than the GTX 680. The GTX 680 was a massive improvement over the GTX 580 as it used 17% less power and the GTX 580 was good for minor savings consuming just 4% less than the GTX 480....

Whether you are looking to upgrade from an older GPU or simply appreciate the statistical significance of the data presented, this article should give you a clear perspective of graphics cards performance spanning several years. This feature was a follow up to the ‘Then and Now’ article we published shortly after the GTX 980’s release. We gathered then that in 5 years we had seen close to a 3x bump in graphics horsepower....

For the past few years, there have actually been two companies operating at the leading edge – TSMC and Samsung. With all the attention that TSMC gets for both commercial and geopolitical reasons, we found that a lot of people sort of forgot about Samsung. A few years ago that would be a mistake, Samsung was always competitive with TSMC, if a little bit slower and harder to work with....

Most mini towers such as the Lian Li Mini Q PC-V354 claim to be designed with both gaming and HTPC use in mind, but the Thermaltake Armor A30 makes no such promise. Instead, it is strictly a gaming chassis designed for LAN party goers. Unless your home theater setup looks something out of the batcave, then the Armor A30 is going to stick out like a sore thumb. The case features a unique “bulletproof” armor design which uses a lot of straight edges mixed with metal mesh elements....

It is now AMD’s turn. As the underdog, AMD has far more reason to play nice and you could argue they’ve been forced into doing many of the things we want Intel to do because of their smaller market share. We don’t believe AMD is a saint, it’s still a big company trying to accomplish what most businesses should: make money. If you missed part one, we recommend you read that first....