Tag: Computing Components
PCIe 7.0 has been announced, offering superfast speeds for the components inside your PC – but don’t get excited just yet
The spec for PCIe 7.0 has been announced It’s a new standard for even faster – incredibly quick – connections with PCIe components in your PC The standard is still in the earliest stages, though, and won’t be here for a long time (PCIe 6.0 hasn’t quite arrived yet, in…
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AMD looks like it’s losing the GPU war based on new Steam survey, with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti proving itself to be popular already
Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti is already present in the top GPUs for Steam gamers It has a small but appreciable 0.21% market share, less than two months after its launch AMD’s RX 9070 models have yet to appear in the Steam hardware survey at all, though its fortunes may change…
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Nvidia RTX 5050 GPU spotted in Acer gaming laptops, so it could arrive soon – but I’m becoming more doubtful about a desktop variant
Acer accidentally listed RTX 5050 GPUs in some gaming laptops The spilled details showed power usage and clock speeds We didn’t get any other specs shared, though, and chatter about the desktop variant of the RTX 5050 has gone quiet, too Acer has leaked the Nvidia RTX 5050 mobile GPU,…
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AMD insists it was right to make an 8GB version of RX 9060 XT GPU, but PC gamers are finding it easy to be cynical about this model
AMD has received quite a lot of flak for making an 8GB version of the RX 9060 XT A Team Red exec has argued that this VRAM loadout is fine for 1080p Some gamers remain unconvinced and also feel AMD has badly named this new pair of 8GB and 16GB…
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Rumored Nvidia RTX 5080 Super specs disappoint some gamers, but I don’t think there’s anything to worry about with this GPU
A leak has detailed the claimed specs of Nvidia’s RTX 5080 Super Some gamers might see this refreshed GPU as underwhelming – it doesn’t add any extra cores into the mix, notably However, there are robust upgrades elsewhere with the video memory and also clock speeds Another rumor about Nvidia’s…
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MSI’s component showcase at Computex was impressive, but in the end, I fell in love with a bracket
I spent yesterday walking the floor of Computex 2025, checking out the latest and greatest computing tech of the year, and I got to spend a lot of time at the MSI booth. As one of the biggest PC component makers in the world, MSI had a lot to show…
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