If the organizing consultant Marie Kondo were assimilated by Star Trek’s Borg, you would get me. I am by no means a fully neat and tidy person (I vacuum, I clear tables, wash the dishes, etc), but I like order in the chaos that is life. I like to know where things are. I like First Order Retrievability, a concept made popular by Mythbusters host Adam Savage, where one should maximize efficiency by ensuring

When you’re building a new gaming PC or upgrading an existing build, you want to make sure that every dollar is spent optimally and that you’re not spending more than you have to.

The power supply unit is the last place you want to cut if you need to save cash. A low-quality PSU can take out some or all of the components connected to it should it fail, and less efficient units throw off more heat and suck down more power from the

The U.S. government is considering a plan to purchase a stake in Intel in a bid to speed up completion of the company's delayed semiconductor complex in Ohio, reports Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter. If the plan comes to fruition, this could become a crucial instrument to put Intel in the foundry game with the right process technologies and enough capacity. The idea reportedly emerged after the meeting between President Donald Trump and Intel's chief executive Lip-Bu Tan earlier

AMD recently introduced the Ryzen 5 5500X3D to contend with the best CPUs in the market. Thanks to X user X86 is dead&back, the initial benchmark results for this Zen 3 processor with 3D V-Cache have been unearthed.

The Ryzen 5 5500X3D belongs to the Ryzen 5000 (codenamed Vermeer) series, utilizing Zen 3 execution cores. With AMD already on Zen 5, it may be

Quirky electronics design house Teenage Engineering has released its second attempt to break into the realm of computer cases. Its sure-fire plan this time around is to market the Computer-2 as a free product. Understandably, despite its minimal and some would say cheap and plasticky construction, stocks of the Computer-2 evaporated almost instantly. You can still join the queue, but, disappointingly, the link to a “build” PDF takes you to a set of assembly instructions, rather

Steam’s payment system just hit another serious speed bump. Millions of players worldwide are discovering that PayPal is no longer an option at checkout, unless they pay in Euros, British Pounds, Japanese Yen, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, or U.S. dollars. For everyone else, that convenient one-click PayPal option has vanished with no telling when it will be back.

This change first appeared in early July 2025, initially thought to be

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs Ryzen 9 9950X competition is intense. The Core 9 285K ushers in a new era for Intel desktop CPUs. Questionable naming scheme aside, the Ultra 9 285K is the highest-performing offering from Intel’s latest Arrow Lake lineup of CPUs, even though its value proposition

It was 10 years ago last month that MSI launched the first RGB motherboard, the X99A Godlike Gaming. And as a PC and components editor, it feels like I've lived every rainbow-strewn moment of the last decade surrounded by software-controlled lights. From SSDs , laptops , mousepads , GPU water blocks , power cables – you name it. About the only PC or PC part that didn't get the RGB treatment was the CPU

HP is revamping its Omen gaming desktop lineup, refreshing both its 35- and 45-liter chassis with slightly new design choices and updated components. The announcement is being made in tandem with HP and AMD's Level Reforge event in Los Angeles .

These are both iterations of HP's existing desktops. The Omen Max 45L is focusing on adjustments for cooling, while the Omen 35L is getting an RGB-free "Stealth" model.