Components

By Mark Knapp If you don’t know SteelSeries, you’re either not a gamer or you haven’t been paying very close attention. The company is consistently behind some of our top-rated gaming accessories. The company started out in Denmark with gaming mouse pads, with a glass pad called the Icemat as its first product way back…

By Mark Knapp During this year’s PC Gaming Week, we had the chance to hop over to the US office of one of the companies behind some of our favorite PC gaming accessories: SteelSeries. Walk around Chicago’s West Loop, where the scent of freshly made chocolate frequently fills the air, not a twenty minute stroll…

By Kevin Lee PC cooling: there’s a right way and a wrong way. But, no matter who you ask, someone is bound to tell you something different. Whether its positive pressure versus negative pressure or air cooling versus liquid cooling, there are all too many PC cooling debates out there. Luckily, we got a chance…

By Kevin Lee The first two Nvidia G-Sync HDR monitors, the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ and Acer Predator X27, are bar none the best two looking gaming monitors currently on the market. But what is an Nvidia G-Sync HDR monitor anyway? Don’t think that Nvidia just found any old high-dynamic range (HDR) display, threw in…

By Kevin Lee We recently had the unique opportunity to visit Corsair’s main headquarters located just north of Silicon Valley, in Fremont, California. We only expected a corporate building – augmented of course by the fun of PC gaming – but to our amazement inside is a competition-grade gaming room and even some testing areas…

By Kevin Lee Like clockwork, Intel has allegedly once again made an official listing for a rumored series of next generation processors. Just yesterday we covered the potential of Intel’s first Cascade Lake series processors and shortly after Wccftech spotted a listing on Intel’s website for the very same chips. According to the listing –…

By Darren Allan A new security vulnerability has been found in Intel’s family of Core processors, along similar lines of the major Spectre bug that has been making headlines all year. Thankfully, this one appears to be less severe – and is already patched in modern versions of Windows and Linux. The freshly-discovered hole is…

By Kevin Lee Intel’s first mainstream octa-core processor is due to arrive in a few months, according to the latest rumors. A PCWatch report claims to have launch schedule details on Intel’s next three desktop processor families. Supposedly, we will see Intel’s 8-core Coffee Lake Refresh – as opposed to the Coffee Lake-S moniker we’ve…

By Matt Hanson Intel has announced that it will be releasing its first discrete graphics card in 2020, with the new GPU aimed at data center and gaming PCs. This is exciting news, as the graphics card market has so far been dominated by just two players: Nvidia and AMD. With Intel creating its own…

By Kevin Lee Corsair makes a lot of PC gaming products. Top notch memory, solid power supplies, it’s K70 and other gaming keyboards are practically legendary in the eyes of PC gamers. Gaming mice, though? Corsair isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind, but there’s more going on behind the scenes than you…

By Kevin Lee Turtle has a new pair of gaming headsets designed specifically for Battle Royale games and game modes. Starting on the mid-range, the Turtle Beach Stealth 300 is an amplified gaming headset for the Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs – there will also be a PS4 version with some missing features. The…

By Kevin Lee Corsair surprised us earlier in the year with its first wireless keyboard, the K63 Wireless, and while we rated it with a nearly perfect score in our review, we wanted the inside story behind it. So, we’ve traveled to Corsair headquarters in Fremont, California to hear the tale straight from the source.…

By Kevin Lee In case you missed the Intel Core i7-8068K giveaway, the processor is officially on sale now. We’ve seen the processor available for $425 (£379, AU$629) on a number of retail sites around the world including Amazon, Newegg, Overclockers and Scan, as well as MWave. That price is about $75 (£60, AU$130) more…

By Jason Cipriani We have seen a crazy two screen laptop prototype from Asus, MSI announce a fancy business-class laptop, and PC cases that aim to all but eliminate any noise from your tower from the largest computing conference on the globe, Computex 2018. The annual event held in Taipei, Taiwan is nearly over, but…

By Bill Thomas You can have all the best components in the world, but without the best PC cases, what’s the point? That’s why we decided to show off the five best PC cases we saw this year in Taipei. At Computex 2018, we got to see a wide range of awesome cases from some…