P C hardware is in an interesting place heading into 2026. The market is flooded with CPUs and GPUs at every tier and price ...

Game types: FPS and esports titles benefit from high frame rates; story-driven and open-world games gain more from cache and core count. Display: Match these with a 120Hz or 144Hz 4K panel for ...

Gaming laptops start from around the 50K price point and go all the way into the 8 lakh territory. With such a vast price spectrum, you get a lot of options with all the different aspects of the ...

Intel today announced it is teaming up with AMD to create a new processor with discrete Radeon graphics, prompting me to construct a sentence I never thought I’d be writing. It’s a shot across the bow ...

I'm currently playing Need for Speed, Crysis Remastered, Call of Duty, all with no performance issues on my Core i7-6700K GTX 1070SC system. More recently, I have started playing Flight Simulator and ...

The core clusters have private L2 caches and a 4 Mbyte shared, 16-way set associative L3 cache that can be partitioned into a maximum of four groups. Repartitioning can be done at runtime by the OS or ...

Greetings,<BR><BR>I need to build a server that will support Retrospect from EMC (formerly Dantz.) Retrospect is a backup product that can be persnickety; it can also suck up some serious RAM and CPU ...

At Hot Chips today, Microsoft's Xbox team unveiled details of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) that powers the newer, slimmer Xbox 360 250GB model. Produced on the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, it's ...

Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Three scenarios make a CPU upgrade worthwhile: Moving ...