Articles by Michael Crider
Give your PC 1980s charm with these retro Transformers desk mats
Liven up your desktop with some classic Transformers art on these licensed limited edition oversized mousepads.
15 must-play Steam Next Fest game demos
Here are the best, most interesting, and most flat-out nutty game demos to load up during Steam's week-long Next Fest.
Samsung’s ultrawide OLED monitor might give you sticker shock
The 34-inch Odyssey OLED G8 is now avialable to order for a whopping $1,500.
Dell axes 6,500 jobs as tech’s long winter continues
The round of layoffs after a glut in the PC market will affect approximately 5 percent of Dell's workforce.
Gigabyte’s newest SSD has a heatsink with its own zip code
The Aurous Gen5 drive can hit 10 gigabytes per second read and write with the passive cooler.
PCs reimagined: 3 radical new products that make building PCs dead simple
New ideas from Corsair, Gigabyte, and InWin will streamline your next desktop build.
Skip Hogwarts Legacy and watch some Harry Potter-style D&D instead
Dimension 20's Misfits and Magic brings some much-needed subversion to teenage wizardry.
Razer’s ultralight wireless mouse costs $280, speed holes included
The Viper Mini Signature Edition is just 49 grams, Razer's lightest mouse yet
A eulogy for Titanfall, a shooter that deserved better
EA seems to be done with the Titanfall franchise, which is a huge loss for gamers
Intel Arc 3 month performance check-in: Impressive Call of Duty gains
Our third check-in with Intel's Arc drivers shows more of the same, except in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and the newcomer Forspoken.
Microsoft rolls out Teams Premium with OpenAI superpowers
The more expensive Teams Premium tier will automatically transcribe meetings and generate notes via OpenAI's GPT 3.5.
Windows 11’s big yearly update comes to your PC: 5 new features to try first
If your PC recently got a big Windows 11 2022 Update, you have new tools and programs to check out.
AMD sets dates and prices for Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs
The "most powerful gaming processors in the world" now have solid release info—time to start saving up.
Update your Samsung 980 Pro SSD firmware right now
Certain models of the Samsung 980 Pro are going read-only — but you can fix it easily.
A trove of classic calculators can now be emulated online
The Internet Archive has 14 classic graphing and accounting calculators from TI and HP that you can check out anytime.
Cyberpunk 2077 levels up frame rates with Nvidia’s DLSS 3
DLSS 3 dramatically improves ray tracing performance in the notoriously rough title, but only on RTX 40-series cards
Phony, malicious Bitwarden ads slip past Google’s watch
Google hosted ads that sent users to a fake Bitwarden login site
This tiny water-cooled RTX 4090 can fit in the smallest ITX build
If you're desperate to fit a giant RTX 4090 in your small form factor PC, a custom cooling loop might be the solution.