When you want a liquid-cooled gaming PC and you want it right now, iBuyPower is pretty much the only game in town short of DIY. Its Gaming RDY Element CL series straddles the line between using a cheap, quick and dirty all-in-one cooler for your central processing unit and a pricey, complex open-loop cooling system. (The latter …

Deja vu. Just like last year’s Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, the 2021 Surface Laptop 4 indistinguishes itself by its utter averageness. It’s still not particularly light, or fast or feature-packed. It’s not inexpensive or full of cutting-edge tech and it doesn’t have an especially long battery life. It’s faster and has better battery life than the older model, but so does …

Anker’s joining the parade of companies retrofitting its product lines to accommodate the new home-conferencing economy — Microsoft’s Modern Home is among the latest — with its AnkerWork brand. The new line incorporates the forthcoming PowerConf S500 small-room speakerphone and the just-released $130 (£119) PowerConf C300 webcam, a Full HD 60fps model with a smartly executed ability to keep you …

In addition to the usual annual component refreshes, Dell is revving up two of its most popular gaming laptops, the Alienware m15 and Dell G15, with improved designs.  The m15 reintroduces AMD Ryzen CPUs to the Alienware laptop line after a 10-year hiatus in the aptly named Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5, with 5000 H-series processors up to a Ryzen …

Meters’ $130 (£99) Level Up gaming headset doesn’t add up to as much as I’d like when applying objective criteria, but its retro-ish style with on-earcup illuminated VU meters, full-bodied stereo and 7.1 virtual surround sound for music and gaming and its comfortable weight have somehow managed to carve out a spot in my heart.  The headset is the company’s first …

For the one-year anniversary of its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, Nvidia has settled on post-promotional pricing for its subscription plan. Dubbed “Priority membership,” the plan replaces the existing $5-a-month Founders membership with the identical benefits. Members get priority access in the queue to reach the servers, support for Nvidia’s RTX ray-tracing and continuous sessions longer than an hour for …

You’ve gotta love an industry that keeps tossing out new gaming graphics processors that get snatched out of midair before you can catch them. The latest in what I hope is the last of these launches for a while is AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT, the new entry-level graphics card in the company’s RX 6000 generation. It follows the recently launched RX …

Laptops may be getting most of the attention these days, but us power users still won’t relinquish our desktops. When you need speed and connections, there’s something to be said for a full-size graphics card, a multitude of USB ports and more space for memory and storage. So even though Intel only briefly floated its 11th-generation desktop CPUs at CES …

Microsoft’s new $100 Xbox Wireless Headset (£90, AU$150) sets a standard in elegant design to match the austere black tower of the Xbox Series X. It’s a nice-sounding headset, with a stable audio connection, good mic and a broad feature set for the money. In some ways, though, it feels like the design may be too clever for its own …

Many people like their work laptops tiny and light and their gaming laptops screamingly fast and crammed with the latest technology. Sadly, the laws of physics conspire to keep us from getting both in a single device, but Asus gives it a shot with the combination of its ROG Flow X13, a 13-inch, 2.9-pound two-in-one laptop, and the XG Mobile, a compact external-GPU-plus-dock combo device. The …