Author Archives: Gordon Mah Ung

AMD on Tuesday launched what can only be described as the “home essentialsâ€� (read: bare-bones basic) of CPU chipsets for today’s and tomorrow’s Ryzen chips.The A520 chipset is a slight upgrade over the previous budget A320 chipset. One main … Continue reading →

Nvidia’s long-awaited GeForce Now arrived on Chromebooks Tuesday morning, giving gamers the ability to play their game libraries on Google’s laptops.Plans for GeForce Now streamed gaming on Chrome OS have been in the works since 2017. The servic… Continue reading →

Nvidia’s long-awaited GeForce Now arrived on Chromebooks Tuesday morning, giving gamers the ability to play their game libraries on Google’s laptops.Plans for GeForce Now streamed gaming on Chrome OS have been in the works since 2017. The servic… Continue reading →

You can speed up your home Internet connection and Wi-Fi for cheaper than you’d think. It’s a need many homes are facing now, when the pandemic traps both students and parents under one roof, all trying to work online at the same time. Wi-Fi range … Continue reading →

Now that Intel’s finally announced its new Tiger Lake CPU for laptops Thursday morning, we can finally start making the odds on which chip will win: 11th-gen Tiger Lake or AMD Ryzen 4000.Sure, we know laptops based on the Tiger Lake CPU aren’t e… Continue reading →

Now that Intel’s finally announced its new Tiger Lake CPU for laptops Thursday morning, we can finally start making the odds on which chip will win: 11th-gen Tiger Lake or AMD Ryzen 4000.Sure, we know laptops based on the Tiger Lake CPU aren’t e… Continue reading →

Intel’s upcoming Xe HPG discrete graphics card will indeed have hardware ray tracing, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The catch? That new discrete GPU for gamers won’t actually show up until 2021, while laptops will get Xe LP first. Still… Continue reading →

If Intel’s view of the future is right, you may one day be shopping for a compute device that’s custom-tailored for you, rather than a device that’s one-size-fits-all.The company detailed its long view of the future of computing devices called “Clie… Continue reading →

For content creators, a laptop with a built-in SD card reader is a preferred feature. Some users go so far as to consider laptops only if they have a reader.One mistake with that choice is it assumes all SD card slots are created equal. Our tests cl… Continue reading →

A cryptic tweet posted by Nvidia’s GeForce Twitter account seems to suggest that the highly anticipated GeForce Ampere GPU could show up as soon as August 31.The tweet from 6 a.m. PDT Monday shows what looks like a Big Bang explosion and the sound… Continue reading →