If you’re working with high-resolution video like 4K or 8K, then there is one guarantee to your work: You’re going to produce a monstrous quantity of data. That in turn often means working with many inadequate memory cards. They’re not big enough to store all your data, and certainly not fast enough to get it off the card in a timely manner. But that’s just the price
The long-standing advice for PC storage for gamers, workers, and everyone in between has always been, “Just use an SSD.” It didn’t matter too much if you were using a PCIe 3 SSD, a PCIe 4 SSD, or even an older SATA SSD. The on-paper performance advances in the top drives just didn’t deliver the kind of real-world advantages that would make it worth recommending them
If there’s one component in PCs that hasn’t really changed much over the past couple of decades, it’s memory. While newer memory generations have offered faster speeds and greater capacity support, there have been few new features or evolutions of the standard that make a difference all by themselves. But that all changed in 2024 with the emergence of CUDIMMs—so diff
It’s not enough to just expect your gaming chair to keep you cool during hot summer days anymore. No, it should also keep you warm when your bones start frosting over in the winter.
If that sounds like a pipe dream, it’s not. Razer’s Project Arielle, announced at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this week, is one such chair, capable of turning down the heat o
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When I think of Razer, I think of two things: RGB lighting, and expensive. But surprisingly only one of those applies to the Handheld Dock Chroma, a USB-C dock designed for the Steam Deck and similar PC-based handheld gaming gadgets. The 6-in-1 dock-slash-stand should work with any of them, and do so for $79.99 USD.
That’s not cheap, certainly — it’s more
Do you love Fortnite? Don’t lie, I know at least some of you reading this do. I play the game without a hint of shame, even if I have to turn on what I call Old Man Mode and do it in no-build. I’m not fan enough to buy a Peely the Banana-themed portable SSD to show my fanhood, but hey, you do you. SanDisk is here to let you fly that flag in 1TB or 2TB capaci
Rufus is an open-source program that creates bootable USB sticks for Windows installation and more. Compared to Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, Rufus offers many more options for configuration setup. If you’re interested in such a program, we’ll show you how to use it.
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We’re seeing more and more smart lighting brands turn to AI when it comes to helping users pick the perfect lighting scene, and now Phiilips Hue is jumping on the bandwagon.
Set for release “in 2025,” the new AI assistant will serve up “personalized lighting scenes based on mood, occasion, or style,” according to a Hue press release.
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