PC Gaming

For over two decades, ASRock has been designing and manufacturing motherboards for desktop PCs, workstations, and servers. The first use of the model name Taichi appeared in 2016 with the X99 Taichi, and since then, every new chipset released has been given the Taichi treatment. As part of ASRock’s motherboard range for Intel Core Ultra…

I’ve yet to see an LCD monitor with local dimming that I thought was any good. But I have now seen a DIY LCD display with an incredibly clever projector-based backlight solution that demonstrates why so-called HDR monitors with full-array local dimming are, in fact, complete crap. Of course, it’s top-notch YouTube channel DIY Perks…

It’s a big month for Call of Duty, what with Black Ops 6 Season 3 gearing up for launch and Warzone’s fifth anniversary next week. But with all of this comes a ton of pressure, which it seems like the devs are feeling as Call of Duty announces that Season 3 has been delayed by…

There’s a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It’s a shadow that’s dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card’s edges and, for once, it’s a shadow that’s only tangentially related to the brutal price gouging that has become the regular coda for this latest GPU generation. The shadow…

Back when Qualcomm first announced the Snapdragon X Arm-based chip for PC, it made big claims about gaming prowess, including supposedly “testing and optimising” the chip with no fewer than 1,200 games. Well, we’re still waiting for gaming on Arm to be a real goer, but apparently Qualcomm already has a follow-up chip coming, the…

If you’re looking for a faster way to farm materials in Monster Hunter Wilds, have I got a mechanic for you. Material Retrieval is a feature that you can unlock once you arrive in High Rank and complete the main story. After helping out the people of the Forbidden Lands so much, they decide to…

With the introduction of Manifest V3, Google’s latest extensions software, some Chrome extensions have been removed from its Web Store. This includes the popular ad blocker uBlock. However, for most removed extensions, the easiest way to get them back is just to turn them back on again. Today, Manifest V3 rolled out in an attempt…

The golden age of MMOs is no more—while it does still get new entries as a genre, we’re long past the gold rush of the early 2010s, where it seemed like everyone and their mum was trying to make a new multiplayer world to jog around in. The handful of big boys remaining aren’t relics…

There are plenty of heroes in Marvel Rivals with busted ults, but one of the most terrifying and probably the most frustrating to counter is Jeff the Land Shark’s. Despite looking adorable, his ultimate is vicious as he dives underground and emerges as a giant whirlpool, eating everyone caught in its radius. You gradually damage…

President Tump and TSMC’s head honcho C.C. Wei took the the Roosevelt Room in the White House yesterday to announce a monstrous $100 billion investment plan in the US including three new fabs or factories that manufacture computer chips. However, the investment is under review by the Taiwanese government which has emphasised that TSMC’s most…