Gordon Mah UngExecutive Editor, PCWorld
One of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and components since 1998.
Ryzen 3000 Review: AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X conquers its past
AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X is so fast, there are very few reasons to buy an Intel CPU now.
Acer Predator Helios 300: We review the bestselling gaming laptop on Amazon
Acer's Predator Helios 300 is currently the bestselling gaming laptop on Amazon. With an 8th-gen Core i7, GeForce GTX 1060, and 144Hz screen, it's easy to see why. We delve into those and other details.
Best external drives for backup, storage, and portability
Whether you're looking for speed, capacity, portability, or all of the above, a USB external hard disk or SSD is a necessary complement to your desktop PC setup.
The best laptops: Premium laptops, cheap laptops, 2-in-1s, and more
From budget, to ultraportable, to gaming laptops, our top picks feature the best tech advances in laptop PCs, from new CPUs and GPUs to new materials, and include portables from HP, Dell, and Apple.
People actually lined up to buy AMD's new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs
AMD said "significant" volumes of Ryzen and Radeon were in stock, but demand looks to have outstripped supply so far.
Watch us unbox the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X
AMD's next big CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X, came to us in an appropriately big box also stuffed with dream-machine mobos and memory. Check it out in this video.
Are Huawei laptops safe? Intel, Microsoft promise support, but the future remains uncertain
The U.S. ban on Huawei calls into question whether the company's Matebook and Matebook Pro laptops are safe to buy. We update you on Intel and Microsoft support, and all the remaining uncertainty.
Intel Core vs. AMD Ryzen: Which offers the best bang for buck
Which CPU offers more value? Core i9 or Ryzen 9? Ryzen 7 or Core i7?
Intel's NUC Compute Elements hopes to make laptops modular
Will Intel's NUC Compute Elements revolutionize modular laptops or it doomed to repeat the failure of Compute Cards?
PCIe 4.0: Everything you need to know, from specs to compatibility to caveats
AMD's platform for Ryzen 3000 also ushers in PCIe 4.0, the first big change to the PCIe interface since 2010. Here's what you need to know.
AMD's new Ryzen 3000 APUs give budget gamers an affordable taste of Radeon Vega
AMD's Ryzen 3000 APUs will enter the fight against far stronger Intel chips, but they retain the substantial edge they've always had: Radeon graphics.
AMD releases two affordable Navi-based Radeon RX cards and lays out ray tracing plans
AMD's Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 will compete with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2070
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X is a 16-core CPU aiming to topple Intel's gaming dominance
With the debut of AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Intel’s slim lead in gaming CPUs could be gone, but only tests will tell.
Intel challenges AMD's Ryzen 3000 CPUs to take the Core i9-9900K's real-world gaming crown
Can Intel's Core i9 still challenge AMD's new Ryzen 3000 chips in gaming? Intel sure thinks so.
We ran Quake II RTX on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti card, and here's how fast it was
Nvidia's remastered Quake II RTX is the first fully path-traced video game, and you can soon have it for free. We ran it on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and this is what we saw..
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