News
Video: Intel answers our Rocket Lake S questions
Brandt Guttridge, Intel’s senior director of the Desktop Products Group, appears on The Full Nerd to answer questions about 11th-gen Core, Rocket Lake S, and desktop gaming.
5 innovations that pushed laptops forward at CES 2021
CES 2021 may be virtual, but the drumbeat of innovation continued with these 5 laptop trends revealed at the show.
PCWorld's January Digital Magazine: How much scalpers make selling the hardware you want most
Enjoy the best of PCWorld.com in a curated Digital Magazine for Android, iOS, and your web browser.
Here's how much more gaming you did due to COVID
PC gamers played 31.3 billion hours in 2020—an increase of 51 percent
MSI will support Resizable BAR across Intel and AMD motherboards, even Threadripper
MSI will support the PCIe Resizable BAR feature even on older 8th-gen Intel motherboards and AMD X470 motherboards.
More graphics card makers roll out significant price hikes
A week after Asus warned of impending price increases for its graphics cards, EVGA and Zotac are following suit.
MSI's powerful, portable gaming laptops go all-in on GeForce RTX 30-series
MSI's latest laptops feature GeForce 30-series GPUs, Intel CPUs, and some even have 1080p webcams.
New Radeon GPUs were barely seen at CES, but they cast a long shadow
AMD only briefly teased new Radeon RX 6000-series laptop and desktop graphics chips at CES 2021, but its design decisions influenced Nvidia's hardware as well.
How the tiny Asus ROG Flow X13 can outpunch big gaming laptops
Paired with a tiny GeForce RTX 3080 eGPU, the Ryzen 5000-based Asus ROG Flow X13 will outperform most bigger gaming laptops
Asus's wild dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo laptop taps Ryzen 5000, RTX 30-series
Asus comes out blazing with no fewer than five gaming laptops featuring Ryzen 5000 CPUs and GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs.
Nvidia woos mainstream gamers with the $329 GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 30-series laptops
Nvidia courted mainstream gamers during its CES 2021 'Game On' event, unveiling mobile RTX 30-series GPUs, the desktop GeForce RTX 3060, new Reflex Latency Analyzer monitors, and more.
Acer's 2021 gaming laptops wield the latest innovations from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Acer's 2021 laptops will feature everything from AMD's Ryzen 5000 to Intel's Tiger Lake H and Intel's GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs.
Lenovo Legion gaming laptops add liquid metal, next-gen Ryzen and GeForce chips
Lenovo's Legion 5, Legion 7, Legion 5 Pro and Legion Slim 7 will pair AMD's newest Ryzen laptop CPU with Nvidia's newest GeForce GPUs.
Intel takes on Ryzen with Rocket Lake S and the Core i9-11900K
Intel launches its 11th-gen Core chip for the desktop, code-named Rocket Lake S, at CES 2021. The flagship Core i9-11900K offers gaming performance that competes that tops AMD's Ryzen 5900X.
Meet Tiger Lake H35, Intel's new bid for ultraportable gaming laptops
Intel believes that the world is ready for ultraportable laptops that can be used for both work and mainstream gaming, and its new 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core chip, the H35, is just the thing.
Acer's swanky new gaming monitors marry high resolutions with ultra-fast speeds
Fast refresh rates? Tons of pixels? Buttery-smooth adaptive sync capabilities? Acer's trio of new gaming monitors offer it all.
Microsoft will shut down Minecraft Earth in June
Microsoft will shut down its AR version of Minecraft, Minecraft Earth, in June. The company is giving players one final, free content update before then.
