Like most original Ryzen 5000-series CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600X has recently enjoyed a significant price cut, thanks to Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs being rather good. Significantly, the Core i5-12600K substantially undercut the AMD chip, but was just as fast. Still, you get a lot of CPU for money. It has the latest 7nm Zen 3 …
The Ryzen 5 5600 is designed for one purpose – to make AMD more competitive at the low end. The company has struggled to appeal to budget gamers with the Ryzen 5 5600X which, while brilliant, still set you back $300 until very recently, yet has been the cheapest Zen 3 Ryzen CPU. AMD has …
In previous CPU generations, Intel’s Core i5 CPUs have usually had the same underpinnings, just with different frequencies and cache amounts, but the Core i5-12400F is a very different CPU to the Core i5-12600K. The 12400F sticks to the familiar 6-core design, while the more expensive Core i5-12600K adds four E-Cores into the mix for …
Asus’ ROG Strix laptops are some of the most gregarious machines around, and that’s not changed for 2022 – this rig is still littered with RGB LEDs and big logos, with translucent plastic on the wrist rest and a trio of interchangeable panels that add some customization to the area behind the display. It shouts …
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While the Asus PG279QM (opposite) feels a little lacking in meaningful features for its high price, the same can’t be said of the MSI MPG321UR-QD. As well as an extra 5in of screen real estate, this 32in bruiser packs in a 4K resolution with a 144Hz refresh rate, quantum dot filter technology for boosted brightness …
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For several years, 144Hz and 165Hz displays with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 (1440p) have been commonplace. However, it’s only recently that displays of this resolution have stepped up to 240Hz, and the Asus PG279QM is one of those select few. This 27in, IPS panel also includes support for G-Sync Ultimate (complete with dedicated …
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The pricing of AOC’s new GK500 keyboard is remarkable, but the price of its new GM500 mouse is absurd. There are no other mice from reputed gaming mouse brands that come close to this pricing, which is only $25 at the time of writing. Unfortunately, it appears that there is a reason why such companies …
AOC has consistently churned out some of the best value gaming monitors on the market, offering a fantastic combination of performance and features for low prices. Now the company has entered the peripherals market with a new keyboard, GM500 mouse and headset So, can’t achieve the same great-value excellence? Well, for just $50, GK500 gets …
As its name suggests, the Lenovo Legion Slim 7 is designed to provide a leaner and lighter experience than most gaming laptops, and it immediately impresses with an 19mm-thick frame and a weight of 1.9kg. That’s 8mm slimmer and more than half a kilo lighter than Lenovo’s own Legion 5 Pro, and you save an …
AMD’s Threadripper 2990WX and 2970WX were, thankfully for Intel, rather niche, thanks to several issues at launch hindering performance. Various tweaks led to improvements over the months, but they still lack grunt in many tasks outside of workstation-class applications, in part due to the way they’re configured. With 3rd-gen Threadripper, though, AMD has connected all …
