Building a Budget Gaming PC in 2026 Is a Pain in the Ass

The end result is a Frankenstein’s monster of a PC, a cobbled-together mess of modern and venerable components that still ...

Save $35 Off the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Processor and Get a Free Copy of Crimson Desrt

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D boasts a max boost clock of 5.2GHz with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 104MB of L2-L3 cache. What really makes it excel in games, however, is the 3D-V-Cache technology that's only ...

Grab Crimson Desert for $0 thanks to AMD's new free game offer

Bag yourself a free copy of Crimson Desert with select purchases of AMD Ryzen CPUs, Radeon RX GPUs, and laptops for the next ...
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Save $600 Off the New Alienware Area-51 Ryzen X3D RTX 5090 Gaming PC

If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further than Alienware's flagship Area-51 prebuilts. Following CES 2026, Dell has discounted an Alienware Area-51 AMD ...

I'm genuinely astonished that this $1,299 RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop deal is back on the menu in 2026, but my goodness I'll take it

"No way". Those were the words that fell out of my mouth this morning, as I realised that this gaming laptop deal was back on ...
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Early Benchmarks: Snapdragon X2 Elite Dominates Productivity, Slips in Gaming

Asus let YouTube channel Hardware Canucks perform a number of tests on its next-generation Zenbook featuring the Snapdragon X2 Elite.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU

For the record, the Qualcomm chip being tested is the Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-88-100. That's got all 18 cores and the full-spec iGPU. But the CPU cores are slightly lower clocked than the top-spec X2 ...