CyberPowerPC's MA-01 comes with analog color control knobs, woven steel mesh, and slanted airflow – modern trimmings meet retro design in new curved-glass PC case

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System builder CyberPowerPC may be familiar to visitors to our Best Gaming PC guide, but it’s not particularly known for PC cases — at least until now. The company’s new MA-01, debuting at CES , is a striking “fishbowl” case with a curved glass front and component-hiding internal slats, for a clean modern aesthetic that

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CES award outs MSI's monstrous 1600W RTX 5090 Lightning GPU — new flagship has next generation liquid cooling, dual 16-pin power connectors, and a surface-mounted LCD display

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MSI's Lightning brand of GPUs have represented the company's highest-tier offerings, but they've been on a hiatus these past few generations. Fortunately, the iconic line-up is being revived with a new RTX 5090 Lightning, overtaking the Suprim X as MSI's flagship 5090 variant. While the card hasn

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SanDisk’s new Optimus SSD line-up replaces retired WD color-based models — new Optimus, GX, and GX Pro tiers for 2026

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Western Digital , known for producing some of the best SSDs , spun off its flash business to Sandisk last year. Following this move, Sandisk has audaciously retired WD’s iconic color-coded SSD branding, such as WD Black or WD Blue, and introduced the all-new Optimus line-up, engineered for gamers, creators, and professionals

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Grab this $399 Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer, back down to a record-low price for the new year — save $300 on high-speed enclosed printer for beginners and enthusiasts alike

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If you're looking to dive into a new hobby for the new year, or you're already thinking about upgrading your setup, then this Bambi Lab 3D printer must be on your January shortlist. The Bambu Lab P1S is 43% off right now, bringing the price back down to below $400 for

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Intel's upcoming Arc B770 discrete GPU leaks out on GitHub, launch appears imminent — Reportedly featuring the BMG-G31 GPU, 16GB+ VRAM, 32 Xe2 cores, and 300W TDP

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Rumors of a successor to Intel's Arc A770 discrete GPU have been floating around for more than a year at this point , with a new launch window finally seeming on the horizon. Following various leaks, the Arc B770, has just appeared on an undisclosed Intel GitHub repository , with code specifically mentioning "b770.

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Samsung teases AI OLED Cassette and Turntable — display division stretches the feasible use cases for its latest tech at CES 2026

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Samsung is teasing some intriguing new OLED products, ready to showcase at CES 2026 over the next few days. Samsung Display’s press release highlights the flexible solutions that its latest OLED technologies can enable, by outlining “several speaker-type AI assistant concepts.” In addition to the (predictable) cute robot and mood lamps, it shared

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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

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Windows 11 gets a bad rep in the community because of its higher baseline overhead, stringent hardware requirements, UI regressions, and more - not to mention the forced Microsoft hooks that keep getting worse by the day. Moreover, when placed in a rather unscientific test by TrigrZolt , comparing six different generations of Windows with each other, it placed dead last

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Blu-ray hits 20 — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006

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20 years ago today, the CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media. Several years in the making, Blu-rays arrived with considerable industry backing, with “seven out of the eight major movie studios announced movie titles for the launch,” reports Blu-ray.

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German retail supplier allegedly rationing RTX 5070 GPUs — more powerful Nvidia graphics cards are completely out of stock

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An alleged European PC retailer went on Reddit and shared an email their supplier sent regarding GPU supplies. According to u/Gb2753’s post on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, they can only order up to five units per Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics card, while the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and higher models are completely

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PC Fan Faceoff: Can Arctic's $7 P12 Pro compete with the $40 Noctua NF-A12x25 G2?

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Picking out new fans for a build is a process you either love or hate. You’ve come to terms with the fact that your PC needs fans – after all, air has to be moved to cool it. For today’s comparison, let’s take RGB out of the equation – assuming all you care about is that your

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