Valve’s repair-friendly approach to the Steam Deck has turned a few heads. In a time when it practically takes a technician to even open a smartphone without risking permanent damage, seeing a portable game machine that actually invites both user access and modification is a breath of fresh air. But even Valve probably didn’t anticipate what one Reddit poster did: Shove a piece of Apple hardware inside the case with zero modification, and have it work just fine.
To be fair, tha
AMD looks to again turn the screws on Xeon with a new Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000-series of workstation CPUs that it claims will be far more efficient and faster than Intel’s best.
Built on the same Zen 3 cores as its award-winning Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs, the long-awaited Threadripper Pro chips will come in five different flavors, ranging from 12 cores to 64 cores, the company said. The Pro-series of CPUs continue to offer 8-channel DDR4 support as the previous 3000-series has.
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A lot of people looking for a solid VPN have one primary consideration: the need for speed. Privacy and anonymity are great, but if it means slow-as-molasses connections most people will opt out in favor of a speed demon. Faster speeds mean a better streaming experience, faster file downloads, quicker website load times, and just a better all-around experience.
Of course, when it comes to speeds there are actually two considerations. Download speeds are the primary concern because most peop
Upgrading to a new PC? Then your work is cut out for you. That’s because migrating apps and files from an old computer to a new one is rarely a simple task, so we’ve put together the PC Transfer Kit Bundle and made it available at an affordable price.
The PC Transfer Kit Bundle includes non-expiring licenses to three apps: PCmover Professional, DiskImage, and SafeImage. Combined, they simplify the process of data transfer so users can save time and get up and
Do you need a gigantic gaming laptop, so big and power-hungry it can double as a portable grill, in order to get the latest hardware? Gigabyte says you don’t and they built the Aorus 17 to prove it. Despite featuring some of the fastest hardware on the market and a 17-inch screen, it’s small and light enough to fit inside a backpack with ease.
To see the full unboxing from Gordon Ung, check out our YouTube channel:
The latest revision of the Aorus 17 features 12th-generat
We’ve been waiting for OLED panels to hit more mainstream monitors for years, and Dell answered our prayers at CES 2022. The Alienware AW3423DW is the company’s first monitor using the popular technology already praised in smartphones and high-end monitors, and it’s available today. Sort of. While Dell is selling the monitor on its online store, it’s only available to purchase if you’re part of the Dell Premier ordering system for corporate customers.
Why? Thi
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray mull reactions to Valve’s Steam Deck, malware disguised as a tool to unlock fulling mining capabilities on Nvidia graphics cards, and a new chiplet standard.
The initial Valve Steam Deck reviews are finally in, and no surprise, they’re a little mixed. Despite this, the crew has high-hopes for the impressive handheld game PC console. From there, the crew moves on to the old adage that if it looks t
Last week Nvidia confirmed that it had been the victim of an internal hack, though it claimed no customer information was compromised. While the hackers have made some very strange demands, threatening to release sensitive corporate data if Nvidia doesn’t unlock some of its most powerful graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining, regular users didn’t need to worry much. Today we’re seeing one of the first effects of the hack on end-users: Nvidia GPU driver packages with malwar
It’s a good day to get a premium laptop at a solid price. B&H Photo and Video is selling the Acer Swift 5 with 1TB of storage for $800. That’s $500 off the MSRP. The deal ends just before midnight Eastern time on Monday.
This would make an excellent workhorse laptop, as it comes with a whopping 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. It should have no trouble cracking open a weighty Excel spreadsheet, doing some intermediate photo editing, displaying presentations, and whatever else you
For all its positives, Windows sometimes acts in unexpected ways—like a sudden lack of audio. If your computer abruptly stops playing sound, try these easy steps to fix the issue:
No sound in one app
First, reboot your computer.Confirm the program’s volume isn’t turned down or muted. In browsers like Chrome and Firefox, each tab can be muted individually—right-click a tab to see its status. (The option will say “Unmute tab” if currently silenced.)If yo