AMD is bringing FSR 4 to older Radeon cards, but you'll have to wait
…Huynh kept the good news coming for those on older hardware, but it's going to be an even longer wait. "And for our RDNA 2 players, we have something exciting coming…
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When will the Steam Machine land? Valve doesn't seem to know
The most exciting hardware for PC gamers this decade is the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming PC that's almost singlehandedly created a product category. Valve's console-ish follow-up…
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 could (finally!) ship soon, leaks say
Is AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on the cusp of launch? Numerous leaks have indicated that AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D successor for desktop PCs should debut "soon," but leaks have been saying…
Forget AI: Nvidia RTX Spark could be game-changing for gaming handhelds
…It's an appropriate vision given that Nvidia’s rise to world’s most valuable company has been driven by the company’s big pivot into AI hardware and software. Still, after…
I'm a PC expert. These are the 8 Windows mistakes I still make
…I have too many desktop icons This is one that my less-tech-savvy friends rag on me for. It's not as bad as my 70-year-old mother's desktop…
Tested: Seagate's One Touch USB hard drive is the cheapest path to more terabytes
…Both the One Touch and X Vault are roughly 80MBps faster than the average 2.5-inch HDD, but 60MBps slower than the previously covered Seagate Expansion Desktop with its higher-grade…
Linux users surge on Steam, doubling in a year
…According to the March 2026 Steam hardware survey, 5.3 percent of users are on some flavor of Linux, compared to 92.3 percent on Windows and just 2.4 percent on…
A Samsung strike could make your RAM even more expensive
As if the AI data center boom wasn't causing enough problems for PC hardware, a looming strike in Samsung's home territory of South Korea could grind the memory giant's…
World Backup Day isn't the deal fest it once was
…It's a desktop document scanner. Backup, you know? As for cloud backup, it's possible that cloud providers will offer promotional discounts for World Backup Day. For now, however, we'd…
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: 6 key things to know
…Intel today is a far cry from a decade ago, when it still dominated in desktop CPU performance. In recent years, we’ve witnessed back-to-back disappointments across Team Blue’s…