PC Gaming
With a background of teaching engineering for many years, I love watching videos about manufacturing, especially those that involve complex robotics. But one video I stumbled across this morning reminded me just how much of a modern gaming PC is still handmade, and it also just happens to be a very relaxing watch. It’s one…
If you thought the challenge of Peak comes exclusively from climbing, you could not be more mistaken. Although the majority of your time will be spent scaling cliff faces, if you stray from the pack, there’s a high chance you will end up learning how to summon the Scoutmaster. This is where Peak stops being…
The Intel Core 9 Ultra 285K. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it, immediately and intuitively communicating the varied and undeniable virtues of Intel’s latest top-rung PC processor. Well, perhaps not for much longer. According to a report on Oregon Live, Intel is about to defenestrate an undisclosed number of marketing employees in favour of…
In the world of science, SI prefixes are sacrosanct. Well, unless you happen to be a computing scientist, in which case the choice of prefix—mega vs mebi—can be a little controversial. It turns out that one programmer at Valve fell on the wrong side of the prefix war when showing your CPU clocks in the…
I utterly despise Google’s AI summaries. I dislike how they’re placed right at the top of the page, I dislike how prone to hallucinating the answers I’m searching for are, and I dislike that when it does offer something vaguely helpful, it’s almost definitely scraped from another human that actually did the legwork. Thankfully, the…
Rejoice, for Microsoft has repented. At last, you can move the audio volume pop-up in Windows. At least, you can in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4452, released yesterday. Actually, you can now configure all of the hardware indicators, including brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktops, choosing between the existing default, which is bottom…
With the ROG Xbox Ally X and Xbox Meta Quest 3S on the horizon, Microsoft is going some way to upgrade its software on non-Xbox-made hardware. Perhaps the biggest and most useful push so far is the upcoming ability to play non-Xbox games straight from the Xbox app. Unlike the former hardware collaborations, this, I…
After years of waiting for Noctua’s greatest PC fan, we finally got our hands on it at the end of last year. Then, Noctua had to go and make us wait even longer for the 120 mm version, the NF-A12x25 G2 PWM. But not to worry, this long-awaited fan is now available. I’ve since put…
There are tons of skills you’ll have to learn while you make your way around Peak, but knowing how to revive your friends is one of the first you should learn. For a game that gives you so many ways to hurt yourself, you’d think the ability to revive your pals would be fairly straightforward….
With two new characters, a map, a battle pass, and a boatload of fresh skins, Season 2: Hellfire Gala has been a treat. But things are only just heating up from here, as Marvel Rivals Season 3 is right around the corner, and the pace of new content is picking up dramatically from here onwards….