It seems like budget accessories are always the last to get updated. They’re overlooked until the latest designs and features are well established in their pricier siblings before they finally get the new look. SteelSeries’ $30 Rival 3 wired gaming mouse and Apex 3 and 5 keyboards — $50 and $100, respectively — have finally …
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Like the stairways at Hogwarts, the competitive field of graphics cards keeps shifting under our feet. When AMD introduced its newest GPU at CES, the Radeon RX 5600 XT, it claimed a noteworthy performance advantage — anywhere from 5 to 33%, depending on the game — over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is Nvidia’s competitor in the top-quality 1080p …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Go bright, go big or go wide just about sums up Acer’s flagship gaming monitors that it’s introducing at CES 2020: a 1,440-nit HDR Predator X32, 55-inch OLED CG552K and 38-inch curved X38. So, something for everyone, or at least everyone …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. I love the convertible design of Acer’s Predator Triton 900, the 17-inch gaming laptop on which its Concept D 9 for creatives is based; it flips into all the positions of a typical two-in-one, but with the added attractions of being able …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. One of the highlights of Asus‘ gaming announcements at CES 2020 — in addition to the new 360Hz and 1,400-nit PG32UQX ROG Swift monitors — is the ROG Zephyrus G14, a new 14-inch entrant in its thin-and-light Zephyrus line. But it’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Higher screen refresh rates in a gaming monitor definitely help with competitive play. But as they climb, the likelihood that you can achieve a sustainable frame rate to match decreases, bringing unwelcome artifacts like tearing and judder — and thus the …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. My favorite gaming irony of CES 2020: Everyone’s declaring that consoles are dying — gaming belongs to the cloud now! — but some of the biggest gaming news of the show was Sony’s unveiling of the new PlayStation 5 logo with …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Sure, I love mirrorless. But there’s a place in my heart where SLRs still reside, and the full-frame Nikon D750 is one of the occupants. But it’s five years old now, and a lot’s changed in cameras since then. Most of what’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Razer’s not a big name in routers, but it certainly is in gaming hardware, and it launched its first wireless mesh gaming router, the Sila, at the end of 2018. So now that everyone’s pushing 5G as the path to making cloud …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Why should dual-screen laptop manufacturers have all the conceptual fun? At CES 2020, MSI is showing off its robot-head concept gaming desktop, the MEG Aegis Ti5, which takes the aesthetic of its Aegis compact desktops a little further out. It’s a …
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