A 30-year PC building veteran, Zak is a modern-day Renaissance man who may not be an expert on anything, but knows just a little about nearly everything.

Intel's Nova Lake desktop CPU roadmap has leaked, showing the chip could be a massive productivity processor when it debuts ...

TL;DR: Alienware has announced a new Area-51 pre-built desktop featuring AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, the first consumer CPU with a dual 3D V-Cache design. The chip offers 16 cores, 32 threads, up ...

Apple announced M5 updates for its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines earlier today. With preorders starting tomorrow, March 4, and the new models shipping next week, you may be wondering if it's time ...

At CES 2026, Alienware debuts new anti-glare 240Hz OLED panels in its 16-inch Aurora and Area-51 laptops, plus new Intel "Arrow Lake" silicon options. I got to check out the screens up close, and they ...

TL;DR: Dell's Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC now features AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, the world's fastest gaming CPU, paired with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 64GB DDR5, and 12TB SSD. Designed for ...

Choosing the right upgrade—RAM or GPU first—depends on identifying your PC's bottleneck to maximize gaming performance and system balance. Pixabay, jarmoluk Upgrading a gaming PC enhances overall ...

When we reviewed it last year, we found that the 8-core 9800X3D outperformed non-X3D chips almost across the board, thanks to AMD's so-called 3D V-cache that puts its on-die memory just under the core ...

Framework delivers on its promise to build a truly upgradeable gaming laptop. But keeping that new GPU cool comes at a cost. Framework’s late-2025 upgrade for the laptop is arguably more important ...

Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro, powered by the advanced M5 chip, brings notable enhancements in performance, display technology, and connectivity. While the external design remains consistent with ...

The M5 14-inch MacBook Pro retains everything we love about Apple’s pro-grade laptops, while also adding in a much more powerful GPU. The star of the show is Apple's new M5 chip, which sports a ...