Category: Equipment

If you’ve been put off getting a new budget gaming PC because of concerns over stories about Intel’s instability issues with its Raptor Lake CPUs, then how about one that’s still very affordable but uses a processor that’s as stable as they come?

This Yeyian Tanto is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 7500F chip and an Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card, a combination that’s nicely balanced for 1080p gaming. That Ryzen processor is basically a Ryzen 5 7600X with six cores and 12 threads. However, its internal GPU is disabled and it has a lower 65 W power limit, but at least the boost clock is only 300 MHz or 4% lower.

Sure, the 7500F’s base clock is a full 1 GHz down on the 7600X’s but it’ll never run that low in games. What it does mean is that when idling on the desktop, the CPU will be…

What more can be said about Valve’s Steam Deck that hasn’t already been covered? I suppose one can point out that it wasn’t the first handheld gaming PC and that it’s not the most powerful one you can buy, either. But none of that actually matters, because what the Steam Deck offers over the competition, and by a country mile, is a comprehensive and complete experience.

 Valve’s ecosystem for the Steam Deck puts other handheld gaming PCs to shame—the enormous library of games that have been checked for compatibility and the work Valve has done in making the Linux-based operating system manage Windows-based games so well have yet to be matched by Asus, Lenovo, MSI, and others.

Beneath the 7-inch 1280 x 800 LCD screen lies the heart of the Steam Deck, a little 15 W …

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File this under “things we already knew but which are nice to have confirmed.” In a recent video for Fall Damage, Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt in all of CD Projekt Red’s games, explained our favorite gruff monster-slaying dad guy will be back for the next game in the series.

“Witcher 4 has been announced,” he said. “I can’t say anything about it. What we know is that Geralt will be part of the game, we just don’t know how much, and the game won’t focus on Geralt. So it’s not about him this time. We don’t know who it’s about. I’m excited to find out. I want to know! I have not seen any script yet—I mean, I couldn’t tell you if I did. This is the thing, so I could be lying through my teeth. But I’m not. Or am I?”

Back in 2013 when CD Projekt Red was talking …

Back in the halcyon days of 2018, a squad of PC Gamer’s top men went toe-to-toe with operatives of Merryweather Security, a major security contractor and PMC in GTA Online. It did not go well: One of our elite crew, under withering minigun fire, described the situation as “hot bullshit,” shortly after which everything went completely south and an ignominious L was taken.

All these years later, it’s almost time for payback. The next free GTA Online update, San Andreas Mercenaries, will give players the opportunity to join up with the Los Santos Angels, a new group of “elite pilots and ex-military operators” led by Charlie Reed, an expert mechanic and ace pilot who’s looking to take on some “lucrative work” (aka crime) and push back against the dominance of Merryweather.

The u…

Remember when the Nvidia initially rolled out its new RTX 40 Series laptop GPUs and every gaming portable with an RTX 4090 cost like $4,000 but it turned out that the RTX 4080 laptop GPU could sometimes actually be faster? 

It mostly comes downs to wattage. In other words, you can have a theoretically higher spec GPU, but if it’s limited in terms of the power it can draw, the whole things falls apart.

Well, now you can get that RTX 4080 laptop chip in full 175W spec for just $1,699. So, yeah, the MSI Vector GP68HX has a 175W Nvidia RTX 4080 mobile GPU that will likely be faster than some RTX 4090 laptops costing far more. And it’s yours for $1,699 on Newegg.

Other spec highlights include a generous 16-inch 1080p IPS screen running at 144Hz, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB S…

It’s Amazon Gaming Week, people, and if that isn’t enough to get your blood pumping and your excitement levels through the roof… then you’re probably quite a well-adjusted human being. Well done. I mean, it is just another way of Jeffy B trying to convince you to part with some money, because he simply doesn’t have enough, but there are at least some good gaming laptop deals around today because of it.

This Acer Predator Triton 14 is just $800 at Amazon right now, and is my pick of the bunch. Now, it might only come sporting a relatively lowly RTX 4050 graphics chip, and I would normally not be recommending, but because of the TGP Acer has given it you’re looking at gaming performance up there with the RTX 4060 GPUs dropped into other 14-inch laptops.

The Triton 14 is runn…