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Of course, we knew that AI would figure prominently at this year’s CES. It’s the technology story du jour after all. But as CES veterans, we’ve seen such sparkling promises of the next big thing ...

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The new computers, which Microsoft calls “Copilot+” PCs–made by manufacturing partners and Microsoft itself–and new Windows systems to run on them, are a near-total reinvention of the old Windows ...

I reviewed a lot of PC gaming hardware in 2023, but only some of it truly stood out. This year, we saw the introduction of AMD’s second-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs, the full lineup of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series ...

I’ve built hundreds of PCs. I’m not confident enough to say thousands yet, but I’m sure I’ll hit that mark before too long. Every time I go to review a new graphics card or processor, I go through the ...

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...

After the better part of two years of declining sales after the gaming PC boom during the COVID pandemic, PC sales are finally on the rise again. The first three months (Q1) of 2024 saw a 1.5% rise in ...

This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for a look back at the magazine's own ...

"If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim ...