Explore a wide range of accessories and gadgets that complement your tech setup. From headphones and adapters to smart tools and everyday add-ons, this category covers all the extra gear you didn’t know you needed — until now.
The personal computer has been defined by a familiar balance of power. Intel and AMD supplied the central processors, Nvidia supplied the graphics muscle, Microsoft provided the operating system, and PC manufacturers built the machines around that arrangement. Even when Apple broke away with its own M-series chips and Qualcomm…
The motherboard is one of the least glamorous, yet most important components in a computer. A processor, graphics card or SSD is much easier to sell with attractive numbers: more cores, higher clock speeds, more FPS, faster read speeds. The motherboard usually works in the background. It does not make…
For years, the dedicated PC sound card has lived in a strange corner of the desktop hardware market. It never disappeared, but it no longer occupies the same mainstream position it had in the Sound Blaster Live, Audigy or X-Fi era. Modern motherboards usually include acceptable integrated audio, USB DACs…
Amd may be preparing another zen 4 x3d processor AMD may not be finished with its Zen 4 desktop processor family yet. According to recent leaks, the company could be preparing a new Ryzen 7 7700X3D, a gaming-focused AM5 processor positioned below the well-known Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The rumored chip…
Modern processors are almost unimaginably powerful compared to the first generation of microchips that launched the personal computer revolution. A modern desktop CPU contains billions of transistors, runs at several gigahertz, and performs complex parallel operations that engineers in the 1970s could barely dream about. Smartphones now outperform entire rooms…
A 32-core processor should sound like a serious piece of hardware. In normal PC language, that kind of core count usually belongs to workstations, servers, virtualization hosts, rendering machines, scientific systems, and other heavy-duty platforms. It suggests a processor built for demanding workloads, large amounts of parallel computation, and tasks…