Stories by Gordon Mah Ung

Intel Core vs. AMD Ryzen: Which offers the best bang for buck

Which CPU offers more value? Core i9 or Ryzen 9? Ryzen 7 or Core i7?

Intel's NUC Compute Elements hopes to make laptops modular

Will Intel's NUC Compute Elements revolutionize modular laptops or it doomed to repeat the failure of Compute Cards?

PCIe 4.0: Everything you need to know, from specs to compatibility to caveats

AMD's platform for Ryzen 3000 also ushers in PCIe 4.0, the first big change to the PCIe interface since 2010. Here's what you need to know.

AMD's new Ryzen 3000 APUs give budget gamers an affordable taste of Radeon Vega

AMD's Ryzen 3000 APUs will enter the fight against far stronger Intel chips, but they retain the substantial edge they've always had: Radeon graphics.

AMD releases two affordable Navi-based Radeon RX cards and lays out ray tracing plans

AMD's Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 will compete with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2070

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X is a 16-core CPU aiming to topple Intel's gaming dominance

With the debut of AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Intel’s slim lead in gaming CPUs could be gone, but only tests will tell.

Intel challenges AMD's Ryzen 3000 CPUs to take the Core i9-9900K's real-world gaming crown

Can Intel's Core i9 still challenge AMD's new Ryzen 3000 chips in gaming? Intel sure thinks so.

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin Review: This thin gaming laptop features 9th-gen Core and GTX 1660 Ti

Can MSI's beloved GS65 Stealth Thin 9SD still stand out in a crowd of "me too" thin gaming laptops?

We ran Quake II RTX on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti card, and here's how fast it was

Nvidia's remastered Quake II RTX is the first fully path-traced video game, and you can soon have it for free. We ran it on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and this is what we saw..

Apple's new Mac Pro might be the monster Mac professionals have been asking for

With a 28-core Xeon W and dual GPU Radeon Vega II cards, Apple's new Mac Pro is going to be a worthy adversary to the PC again.

Intel's 2nd-gen Optane Memory M15 upgrades storage performance speeds

Intel's "2nd-gen" Optane Memory devices finally increase the number of PCIe lanes.

Nvidia's G-Sync Compatible validation flunks over 94% of FreeSync monitors. Here's why

Nvidia said 28 FreeSync panels meet its G-Sync Compatible requirements, while 475 failed validation.

HP's Elite x2 G4 and EliteBook x360 1040 G6 dazzle with 1,000-nit displays and 24-hour battery

Your laptop hits 500 nits? That's cute. HP's new Elite 1000-series pushes 1,000 nits

Kill ATX? The radical Asus Prime Utopia looks like a PC plucked from an alternate timeline

The Asus Prime Utopia concept envisions a future for enthusiast PCs beyond ATX form factors.

Hands-on: Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 gets thinner and 2.5x faster with Intel's 10th Core i7

Dell's redesigned XPS 13 2-in-1 gets an Intel "Ice Lake" 10th gen Core i7-1065, Iris graphics, a 500 nit 4K+ panel, and newfangled memory.