It’s easy to start thinking about graphics and ray-tracing GPUs as a two-pony show. There’s AMD on the one side and Nvidia on the other. But Intel doesn’t intend to be left out, or at least that’s what it claims. For the past few years, Intel has bee

In Jarred’s Tech Talk this issue (see page 19), he went into great detail about the shortages we’re seeing in the industry right now. Thanks to a multitude of different factors, the world of computing is fragmented in terms of stock, and it’s only sn

Against the backdrop of the mainstream Wi-Fi router and mesh markets, a new category has been developing: that of the powerful, two-node system which offers wired-like performance from one end of a premise to the other. The Deco X90 represents TP-Lin

The Medium plays like an old-school Resident Evil game, minus the gunplay. You navigate Marianne around crumbling, abandoned hotels and claustrophobic Cold War bunkers from fixed camera angles. It can be a bit cumbersome, but it’s a deliberate and ef

Windows 10 You can use Windows’ own Task View option, or try a number of third-party apps. Tired of managing an unruly mess of a desktop, with tons of windows clogging up your view? There is a solution: Windows 10’s virtual desktop feature. This let

DEVELOPER ID SOFTWARE PUBLISHER GT INTERACTIVE RELEASED JUNE 22, 2016 WEB IDSOFTWARE.COM A wizard lives here, supposedly. Either he’s out to lunch, or someone at id Software in 1996 came up with the name for Quake’s E2M5, ‘The Wizard’s Manse’, and d

In a world where gaming monitors are competing to offer the most immersive game reproduction, best viewing angles, biggest curved screens, brightest colours and most jaw-dropping HDR contrast – all in an effort to make the latest games look pretty –

Raspberry Pi OS with the full set of pre-installed software is the best option for a daily driver. It will save time later with all the productivity tools you’ll need. While lightweight alternatives are available, the Raspberry Pi OS also features a

So, we came into this thinking we wouldn’t really change many parts this time around because of the way stock is right now, but inevitably that feels like a betrayal, so we’re trying to minimise cost where we can. However, it’s proving difficult to a

According to the statistics released by Adobe as part of the 25th anniversary of PDF in 2018, more than 200 billion PDF files were accessed using Adobe products in 2017. In the years since, and taking into account non-Adobe products, the sheer number

In the year since we reviewed journalling app Day One Journal, it’s acquired several new features that may persuade you to give it a try – or to upgrade to premium if you’re still using the basic version. Top of the list of new features in version 5

There was no human sacrifice. Dogs and cats did not live together. The only mass hysteria was in the media. And unlike Ghostbusters, the Millennium Bug, also known as the Y2K problem, was very real. It was only through a lot of hard work on the part

Much has been written about using a Raspberry Pi as a desktop replacement. When the Raspberry Pi launched in 2012, this seemed unfeasible. With the arrival of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, it is eminently possible. Take the basic specification of a low-cos

MARK WILLIAMS Mark is an IT professional with a strong interest in voiding warranties. When Nvidia announced the RTX 3000 Laptop series of GPUs at CES we all got a little excited about the new performance levels that would come in this year’s laptop

The Raspberry Pi Pico is turning up in many imaginative projects, and the latest to the list is a long-range wireless chat “Doomsday Communicator” from Bobricius that features a simple QWERTY keyboard and a small IPS LCD display. Bobricius’ Raspberry

Thanks to COVID, we’re all spending more nights at home, and that’s been truer than ever for the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. Still, for bookworms at least that means even more time for settling down and escaping with a good book. Here, we’

This has been one of the most difficult times to talk about hardware, especially when it comes to pricing up builds. Shortages, scalpers, and miners have put a strain on this industry, and many of our parts saw price rises. So, we’ve made several cha

Over two years ago, Nvidia surprised nearly everyone by announcing that its next-gen Turing architecture would feature the holy grail of computer graphics: Ray tracing (RT). It’s a technique that’s been around for decades, and the movie industry make

It’s a very rare and special time in the world of the PC. We’re witnessing above-average generational performance leaps with GPUs, a remarkable battle for the CPU space well into its third year, exciting new PCIe 4 SSDs, motherboards with loads of la

PCIe 4.0 SSD’s are on track to take over the performance NVMe SSD market. It will take some time, but soon PCIe 4.0 drives will find their way into all but basic SATA-equipped systems. That trend will be accelerated by the likes of the Adata XPG Gamm

We finally put down our PS5 long enough to do a proper teardown. We really want this thing to work again when we’re done. We’re not going to hold back, though. Here we go. • AMD custom 8-core / 16-thread 3.5GHz Zen 2 CPU • AMD custom RDNA 2 GPU (2,23

Razer is finally branching out into the ‘strictly business’ space with the new Book 13 line by ditching the discrete GPU and slashing the price. It’s a solid move, but with Apple and Dell both offering price cuts on its 2021 devices, the Book 13’s st

The Asus ZenBook Flip 13’s 1080p screen is a 13.3-inch OLED panel with Full DCI-P3 colour compatibility, which is a pretty standout bonus in an otherwise tight race… especially when it’ll cost you nothing extra. The standard online price for the ZenB