Ever since the start of the GPU crisis caused by the current global chip shortage, many enthusiasts have tried to come back to integrated graphics as another alternative source of graphics crunching power. Indeed, options such as Intel Tiger Lake Iris Xe, Ryzen 4000G, and even the older Ryzen 3000G series provide adequate performance levels […]
TDP, or thermal design power, is a term that is often thrown around by chip manufacturers as metric of performance efficiency over a perceived sustained energy dissipation value. Theoretically, this is absolutely correct. When considering chip designs, there is a considerable relation between power and performance. The higher the TDP, the more energy is required […]
Many of you have built your first computers handpicking every part. You have spent a good amount of time crunching the numbers. There are so many things to look into to make sure every component is fully compatible and optimised with the others and would work at their highest efficiency. But the component that often […]
The Nvidia RTX 30 series never ceases to amaze. Since September 2020, Nvidia has been scoring home runs with its RTX 30 series lines up for laptops. There are a total of three cards announced to date, the latest being the RTX 3060 announced a few months back in February.
Whether you are a budding photography enthusiast or an advanced professional, if you fancy editing your photos on your own, you’ve got to have a good monitor as part of your editing platform. But with so many options available in the market it’s a problem of plenty. The million-dollar question in your mind must be, […]
For the best gaming experience, you need the best monitor that you can lay your hands on. And when it comes to the best monitors, 4K is the overwhelming favourite. Even an enthusiast gamer would love to have his or her hands on a 4K monitor. Though you can splurge and go overboard to own […]
Gaming chairs are still the de facto craze for DIY PC room setups. That being said, there has also been a growing awareness of the importance of ergonomic chairs within the last few years. The idea of maintaining good posture at all times, breaking all the bad sitting habits that you previously have. You know, […]
To the average user, the idea of spending tens, if not hundreds of dollars on mechanical gaming keyboards would always seem like a statistical mystery. I mean, aren’t keyboards just meant to type things on for work? They’re mere external input devices, not directly related in any way to the specifications of your computer. Surely […]
If you are looking for performance and value from an ultra portable laptop, look no further than those powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U. Yes, Ryzen 5000 series chip may be out but these are reserved for power hungry gaming machines. These AMD Ryzen 7 4700U laptops will deliver on everything you need and more.
From two of the biggest tech companies in the gaming laptop space comes ASUS TUF Dash F15 and MSI Stealth 15M. Priced to compete, both laptops are sold at the same price and uses the latest 11th generation Intel Core i7 processors, so which would you pick. Let’s take a look.
Most say that gaming is good if you have a powerful graphics card to process the detailing that a AAA title needs. Some focus on the processing power of the CPU. When it comes to building a PC for gaming, only a few start with the monitor.
Ever since Nvidia launched its flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3080, laptops gamers have been salivating as to when they would be able to enjoy a piece of the cake. It is a graphics card that can rip through the latest games like a hot knife through butter at 4K resolutions. There were apprehensions […]
The new Apple iMac represents a giant step for the evolution on iMacs. Apart from being the first to use Apple’s own silicon, it is radical in design and allows Apple to reintroduce colours into the all-in-one desktops. The best part is It gives us a glimpse into what the future for iMacs would look […]
NVIDIA announced the launch of RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, budget friendly entries to their GeForce RTX 30 series graphics. Compared to RTX 3060, these have only 4GB graphics memory, fewer GPU cores and fewer AI cores. The best affordable gaming laptops without compromising on ray tracing in the value segment is still ones […]
There was a time when ‘resolution’ was the talk of the town and the focus used to be on gaming monitors supporting high resolutions. However, with gaming being more mainstream and eSports taking the centre stage in different gaming tournaments worldwide, refresh rates and response times have become more important than high resolution.
The competition between Intel and AMD has never seen such blood before. For every iteration released, the Red and Blue teams lock horns for technical supremacy. AMD took the CES 2021 by storm by launching their Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors, showcasing their entire line-up of the latest processors promising 4K gaming […]
A majority of the personal computing space is dominated by laptops which are the so-called mid-range units. The classification is a bit ambiguous because there are so many processing chips and allied accessories that come within that broad spectrum. Our favourites are laptops based on the 11th generation Intel Core i5 processors. In this article, […]
Action cameras are carving a niche for themselves. Not only are they small, compact and portable, they record videos up to 5K with image stabilisation and can go virtually anywhere with you whatever your outdoor activity be it mountain biking, snowboarding, sky diving, snorkelling or scuba-diving. If you are in the market for one, be […]
Sky-high GPU prices are still going strong, and there is no end in sight. Many hope that supplies will balance out demand soon, and some pray for miraculous altcoin crash event. But, whatever your aspirations are for this ongoing severe shortage of GPUs, nothing is going to change the fact that only a trickle of […]
Managing your storage needs is usually just a matter of deciding on pre-set data capacity that you might need for specific usage objectives on your computer be it laptop or desktop. For gamers, a fast-access, high-capacity SSD is usually a requirement. For document archivers, the cheaper but more spacious HDD is still the traditional norm. […]