If you’re keen on lighting up your PC, you probably have a few sets of LED strips or cold cathodes in a drawer somewhere. The trouble is that as soon as you change PC cases or hardware, these lights invariably end up clashing with your new parts’ colours. Similarly, standalone kits usually have limited lighting … Read more
It’s been a long time coming, but Intel has finally deployed its first 10nm desktop CPUs, and Scan’s 3XS Vengeance Ti is the first system we’ve seen with the barnstorming Core i9-12900K. Intel’s new Alder Lake processors have two types of cores – P-Cores for performance and more power-efficient E-Cores, which take an intelligent approach … Read more
Good computer, great monitor Yes, it’s expensive, and only gets you 8GB of memory and a 1TB Fusion Drive – boosted by a 32GB SSD – which is unlikely to satisfy users spending this kind of money. Doubling either of those adds a frankly outrageous. Just as well you can still pop in your own … Read more
Chillblast’s Fusion Panther is the first small form-factor system we’ve seen for a while, and Chillblast hasn’t shied away from installing high-end kit in this modest box, despite its height of just 292mm height. For example, the Gigabyte RTX 3070 card inside this rig overclocks the GPU’s original boost speed of 1725MHz to 1810MHz. Read … Read more
Why you must buy a mini PC 0 0 MSI Trident X Review $2,399.00 MSI Trident X You’ll forget how it looks once you see it running THERE’S A GROWING TREND for prebuilt small-form-factor gaming desktop PCs … Buy It Now 0 0 Asus ROG Strix GL12CX COD Edition Asus ROG Strix GL12CX COD Edition … Read more
Look around any electronics shop, and you’ll find the computers they sell from the shelves aren’t the same ones they use on the counter. That’s because most big PC brands make entirely different ranges for consumers and businesses. Read our Dell Optiplex 5040 Review [wpsm_toplist] Dell’s Optiplex 5040 series is definitely aimed at the office, … Read more
Contrast the wireframes of Elite with the lifelike realism of 2020’s Flight Simulator and you might wonder if the old world of computing is worth a second glance. But that’s not to say we can’t reflect on the past and reminisce on some of the things that have been and gone. In fact, there are … Read more
WHATEVER YOU WANT to call these things, in this feature we’ll be exploring the history of the ultimate in tiny computers—not including the now-ubiquitous smartphone. We’ll start with early and ground-breaking models in the 1980s, through to the more mature models in the ‘90s. We’ll also take a look at the UMPC craze of the 2000s … Read more
Matt Hanson www.lenovo.com The Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 5 is a new all-in-one PC that is aimed at people working from home who are after a stylish PC that doesn’t take up too much space on a desk. That’s quite pricey for the specs on offer here, especially compared to traditional desktop PCs, though as it’s … Read more
Many barebones PC kits feature an ultra-compact or exceptionally slim design that doesn’t leave room for full-size graphics cards. The GPU limitations mean that most barebones kits are relegated to home office duty. MSI’s Nightblade X2 is a different breed of barebones kit that supports a dualslot GPU up to 290mm long—enough space to fit … Read more
NO BIGGER THAN a PS4 Pro or an Xbox One, MSI’s lounge-room-friendly Trident 3 is one of the most svelte mini gaming PCs we’ve ever tested. Its compact parallelogram-shaped chassis means it’ll easily fit on a shelf in your TV cabinet, but the included stand (which is less stable than we would have liked) gives … Read more
Love ’em or loathe ’em, pre-built systems provide an accessible entry point into the PC gaming ecosystem, and the Trident 3 seems like a solid idea. The spec is good for the price — Core i7-8700, GTX 1070,16GB of DDR4 – and you get a hefty storage solution as well. Coupled with a form factor … Read more