Ira James
Quick verdict If you want the fastest mobile GPU available, a 240 Hz mini-LED that actually looks as good as the spec sheet promises, and a laptop that behaves like a compact desktop, the Asus ROG Strix SCAR 18 is a top pick. It trades silence and battery endurance for raw sustained performance, so buy … Read more
If you’re searching for a KDE Plasma 6 Wayland NVIDIA stutter fix, you’re not alone. I recently upgraded to Kubuntu 24.04 and noticed frustrating lag on my 200Hz monitor when using Wayland with my NVIDIA GPU. Everything looked great on paper, but in practice? Animations were choppy, responsiveness was off, and gaming just didn’t feel … Read more
I was born in ‘92. That makes me about 15 years old back in 2007, and that was the year everything clicked for me digitally. We finally had our own PCs—mine wasn’t fancy, but it was mine. I could finally stop fighting with my brother over computer time, which back then usually meant either downloading … Read more
AMD isn’t wasting time playing catch-up in the AI space. At its “Advancing AI 2025” event, the company laid out a very specific goal: become a serious alternative to Nvidia in powering the next wave of artificial intelligence. Not by copying what Nvidia is doing, but by doubling down on open systems, better price-performance, and … Read more
A lot of Filipino gamers have been flooding social feeds, convinced that Steam quietly shoved the new 12 % Value-Added Tax (VAT) onto developers while somehow keeping retail prices exactly the same—and now they’re showering Gabe Newell with praise. Here’s the thing: Steam didn’t pull some magic trick to subsidize your purchases. What actually happened … Read more
Let’s get this out of the way early. Doom: The Dark Ages is still very much Doom. It’s angry, fast, gory and loud in all the ways fans of the rebooted trilogy have come to expect. But this third entry from id Software also marks the series’ boldest experiment yet. It isn’t trying to repeat … Read more
At COMPUTEX 2025, AMD went wide. Instead of drilling into one niche, the company launched an aggressive portfolio refresh spanning gaming, AI development and high-performance computing. The Radeon RX 9060 XT, Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series were all introduced with a unifying theme: performance elevated by AI. But amid the slide … Read more
The Zoom MS-60B+ looks like something cooked up in a mad scientist’s workshop. It’s barely bigger than a standard Boss pedal but somehow crams in five footswitches, a full suite of amp sims, over 90 bass effects, and the ability to stack six of them at once. This thing shouldn’t exist. But it does. And … Read more
AMD has officially crossed a new threshold in the x86 CPU market, and this time, it’s not just a footnote in quarterly earnings and it’s a clear signal that the company is no longer chasing but leading in some of the most critical segments of the semiconductor industry. According to Mercury Research, AMD ended Q1 … Read more
At Computex 2025, be quiet! showcased a range of new products, including the Pure Loop 3 LX and Pure Loop 3 AiO water coolers, the Pure Power 13 M power supply series, and the Dark Perk Ergo and Sym mice. While these offerings continue the company’s tradition of combining performance with low noise, they largely … Read more