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I went hands-on with this portable and compact gaming PC case — and now I'm planning my first mini ITX build

Cooler Master surprises me with a compact, airflow‑centric PC case that suits a portable gaming rig more than perhaps anything else — and it's a bargain at $55.

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress

The RX 9050 is slower than the RTX 5050 in every conceivable way except when the latter is constrained in some way. It performs worse in synthetic benchmarks and games but has more efficient power consumption. At 4K, it's about 42% slower, and at 1080p it's about 31% slower on…

Tom’s Hardware

Your motherboard's M.2 SSD heatsink might be slowing down your SSD — Only 6 of 20 tested boards made full contact

We tested 20 motherboards for proper M.2 contact and were surprised at the results – not all make good contact.

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AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions

Oh, and the 4 GB version is OEM-only.

PC Gamer

ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)

ASRock has listed the long-rumored RX 9050 GPU on its website in both a 4GB and 8GB configuration, but has deleted those pages since.

Tom’s Hardware

ASRock showed off a Taichi 10th Anniversary RX 9070 XT graphics card and components that it apparently isn't planning on actually releasing, and that's just plain weird

It turns out the ASRock Taichi 10th Anniversary RX 9070 XT and components shown at Computex as just concepts and will not go on sale.

GamesRadar

How to build a Steam Machine-killing compact gaming PC for less

We show you how to build a Steam Machine-killing small-form-factor gaming PC for the same price (or less) than Valve's upcoming rig.

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Japanese firm launches hyper-realistic capsule toy PC parts ‘you can assemble and play with’ — tiny motherboards, cases, and CPUs are coming after Tarlin inks collab with the ‘big four’ PC parts makers

A Japanese capsule toy maker has announced an official collaboration with ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI, and Intel to make tiny PC components that buyers 'can assemble and play with.'

Tom’s Hardware

Best monitors of Computex 2026: top new displays you need to know about

It's all about multi-mode OLED and Mini LED monitors at Computex 2026, with leading models pushing 5K into the mainstream, high-end 4K beyond just 240Hz, and near-700Hz for 1080p competitive gaming as well.

TechRadar

The wildest and weirdest gaming PCs of Computex 2026

These are the best gaming PC builds I've seen at Computex 2026, from the inventive to the downright ridiculous.

TechRadar

ASRock shows off a slew of new AIOs, Power Supplies, and 10th Anniversary hardware — a monster 3KW Taichi power supply for AI and hybrid Taichi Aqua AIO/custom loop stand out in the crowd

Tom's Hardware stopped by the ASRock booth, and was greeted by a wide variety of products at this year's Computex.

Tom’s Hardware

Intel’s new Bartlett Lake flagship loses fight to a four-year-old CPU — Core 9 273PQE has 50% more P-cores but can't surpass Core i9-13900K in games

German media outlet PC Games Hardware benchmarks the Core 9 273PQE and compares it to modern mainstream processors.

Tom’s Hardware

Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs.

Tom’s Hardware

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Can we put AI back in the box?

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Testing this iBUYPOWER "RDY Trace X" gaming PC proves how great a pre-built rig can be, even with these caveats

iBUYPOWER's RDY Trace X R01 is a great example of how great a pre-built PC can be, even with its flaws. There's no AAA game that it wouldn't be able to handle.

TechRadar

Fed up with expensive DDR5? ASRock's new HUDIMM memory is riding to the rescue — but it's not a silver bullet for the RAM crisis

ASRock's new RAM is about 'ensuring Intel users have access to the benefits of DDR5 memory in the years ahead' — but there's a catch.

Tom’s Hardware

New cost-effective DDR5 memory 'HUDIMMs' show around 50% reduction in throughput with single subchannel — Two HUDIMMs are as fast as a single stick of regular DDR5 RAM

HUDIMM is being proposed as a cheaper memory spec using only 1x 32-bit subchannel per stick instead of 2x 32-bit in order to populate less ICs. Turns out, halving the bandwidth like that actually slashes the performance in half too, alongside the expected capacity reduction. Two HUDIMMs running in dual…

Tom’s Hardware

New HUDIMM memory specification debuts with goal of slashing DDR5 prices during RAM shortages — A new, cheaper memory standard with half the bandwidth and half the capacity

DDR5 RAM usually has 2x 32-bit subchannels (single rank), which requires more ICs to populate a 64-bit wide bus. ASRock's new HUDIMM has just 1x 32-bit channel and can work with standard DDR5 in mix-and-matched configs as well. HUDIMM sticks are being made by TeamGroup and are supported on most…

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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

One of the most impressive motherboards ever made.

PC Gamer

Oops, ASRock says motherboards will support 'newly launched' AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU that has definitely not yet been launched

I hope no one got yelled at for this.

Tom’s Hardware

ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots — Intel board signals the RAM apocalypse is truly nigh

A motherboard that can accept both DDR4 and DDR5 memory can be the difference between you being able to build a new PC or putting it off till the shortage is over. ASRock's new H610M Combo II is otherwise pretty barebones, not even featuring PCIe 4.0 storage, but it does…

PC Gamer

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

Bigger BIOS, better overclocking.

PC Gamer

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

Bigger BIOS, better overclocking.

PC Gamer

If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update

Of course, if it won't boot because the CPU is fried, no amount of BIOS tweakery will help.

Tom’s Hardware

Intel XeSS 3 MFG mod triples Arc A380 triples performance in Cyberpunk 2077 — supercharged 6GB GPU pumps out 140 FPS at 1080p on low preset

Intel XeSS 3 Frame Generation is shown to work effectively, even on entry-level GPUs. Cyberpunk 2077 increased from 55 to 60 FPS to as high as 140 FPS with MFG enabled.

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