Very pretty desktop with nice lighting, especially if you like Tron. GPU, RAM, and storage are simple upgrades. Tool-less latch system to remove the side panel. Great value. CPU upgrades are limited.

The Area-51 uses the X870E motherboard and can be configured with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Both processors include AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which improves access to game data ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first single-board computer from Raspberry Pi to feature support for PCIe add-ons like M.2 SSDs. But since there’s no M.2 slot on the board itself you need an adaptor board ...

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Satechi’s latest SSD enclosure, the USB4 Slim NVMe SSD Enclosure, lets you add up to 8TB of SSD storage to any Mac – though it is specifically styled to make the perfect addition to an M4 Mac mini.

NVIDIA’s latest GPUs are here, and whatever you think about them, the combination of DLSS, Reflex, frame generation and more makes them impressively capable. Still, that power comes at a cost, but ...

Gather your team of up to four players. Whether you’re playing Splitgate 2 multiplayer or battle royale, you play in teams of four. Thanks to crossplay, you can join up with other players across Xbox, ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

The WD Black SN8100 (starts at $179.99 for 1TB, $279.99 for 2TB as tested) is the first WD-branded PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD) to come to market, but it was well worth the wait. The SN8100 ...

If you’ve encountered the many woes of trying to score some of Nvidia’s best graphics cards, you may be considering a prebuilt gaming PC instead. If so, we’ve spotted a high-end RTX 4090 option that ...

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