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Just over a month ago Intel pulled the trigger on the rest of its 12th generation "Alder Lake" Core desktop processors, adding no fewer than 22 new chips. This significantly fleshed out the Alder Lake family, adding in the mid-range and low-end chips that weren't part of Intel's original, high-end focused launch. Combined with the launch of the rest of the 600 series chipsets, this finally opened the door to building cheaper and lower-powered Alder Lake systems. Diving right in, today we're taking a look at Intel's Core i3-12300 processor, the most powerful of the new I3s. Like the entire Alder Lake i3 series, the i3-12300 features four P-cores, and is aimed to compete in the entry-level and budget desktop market. With prices being driven...
Acer Reveals Predator Orion 9000 Gaming Desktop: Up To 18 Cores, 4 Vega GPUs
In one of many announcements from Acer at IFA, the company has revealed a powerful new gaming desktop in their Predator line, the Acer Predator Orion 9000. The new...
15 by Joe Shields on 9/1/2017
Shuttle Squeezes Desktop Graphics Card into a 3-Liter XH110G SFF PC Barebones
Shuttle has announced a new small form-factor barebones PC aimed at entry-level gamers as well as those who need a SFF multi-monitor setup, such as graphics professionals, traders, digital...
22 by Anton Shilov on 8/22/2017
Dell Now Offers Aquantia AQtion AQN-108-Based 5 GbE Cards with Select PCs
Aquantia and Dell this week began to offer Aquantia’s AQtion AQN-108 5 GbE network controller as a build-to-order option for the OptiPlex 7050 workstations. Dell is the first major...
10 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2017
Shuttle’s X1 Now Available: NUC-Like PC With a GeForce GTX 1060 GPU
Shuttle has started to sell its new Gaming Nano family of small form-factor PCs. The miniature Shuttle X1 systems are barely larger than Intel’s NUCs, but they integrate Intel’s...
16 by Anton Shilov on 8/14/2017
Corsair’s ONE SFF PCs Get Upgraded: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, NVMe SSD
Corsair on Thursday upgraded its Corsair ONE small form-factor gaming PCs, giving the systems a solid mid-generation upgrade. Relative to the original Corsair ONE, the new Corsair ONE desktops...
14 by Anton Shilov on 8/5/2017
MAINGEAR Launches R2 Razer Edition: Mini-ITX System with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core i7
MAINGEAR this week introduced the first small form-factor Razer Edition desktop aimed at loyal clients of Razer. The new MAINGEAR R2 Razer Edition uses AMD’s and Intel’s latest platforms...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2017
New Intel Kaby Lake Core i3 Processors: i3-7340, i3-7320T, i3-7120T, i3-7120
Last week Intel recently updated its specifications for the 7th generation processors. In doing so, we can see several new Kaby Lake i3 SKUs coming to desktop, along with...
52 by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on 7/14/2017
AMD Announces AMD4U Promotional Bundle with Square Enix and Adobe
In collaboration with Square Enix and Adobe, AMD has announced their new AMD4U promotion, bundling indie games and creative software trials with eligible AMD-powered systems. AMD says that this...
8 by Nate Oh on 7/11/2017
Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition Announced at E3, Available for Order July 27
Alienware this evening has announced their new Area-51 Threadripper Edition desktop at E3. The high-end gaming desktop offers up to a heady 16-core/32-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor – marking...
16 by Nate Oh on 6/13/2017
HP Updates Their OMEN Gaming Lineup: Desktops, Notebooks, eGFX, and Displays
Today HP is announcing some updates to their OMEN lineup, which is their gaming brand. Gaming is still a high-margin segment of the PC space, so there is quite...
18 by Brett Howse on 6/6/2017
Dell Launches 'VR Ready' XPS 27 AIO: 4K, Core i7-7700, Radeon RX 570, 10 Speakers
Dell has launched a new version of their XPS 27 all-in-one gaming PC. The VR Ready flavor of the XPS 27 has the same 4K display and the same...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2017
ASUS VivoPC X Console Now Available: Core i5, GeForce GTX 1060 for $799
Word comes that ASUS has begun selling its VivoPC X console-like small form-factor PC in the U.S. As announced back in January, the system features a quad-core processor and...
40 by Anton Shilov on 4/24/2017
CORSAIR ONE Gaming PC Released
First announced in February, the new Corsair ONE pre-built gaming PC is now shipping. The Corsair ONE is the first ready-to-run system from the manufacturer that has mostly been...
61 by Billy Tallis on 3/23/2017
The OcUK 8Pack OrionX: X99 + Z270 in a Custom Overclocked $30,000 Desktop PC
Overclockers UK has started to offer its top-of-the-range 8Pack OrionX computer that weds two completely different systems in one box: a multi-core overclocked Intel Core i7-6950X-based high-end desktop and...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/30/2017
The Microsoft Surface Studio Review
Microsoft has only been in the PC system game for a few years now, but over the last couple of years they have made a lot of progress rather...
197 by Brett Howse on 1/20/2017
Acer Announces The GX Series Gaming Desktops
While gaming laptops seem to get most of the attention, for some of us, desktops are the only way to go. You can get more performance, more storage, more...
3 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2017
HP Announces The Pavilion Wave And Elite Slice Desktops
HP has announced two mini PCs today, but unlike some of the small boxes we’ve seen, HP has created a couple of stylish cases which fit in well with...
10 by Brett Howse on 9/1/2016
Digital Storm Announces The Aura 34” All-in-One Featuring A 10-Core i7-6950X and GTX 1080 GPU
Without missing a beat with the launch of the latest Broadwell-E processors from Intel, and the highest performing graphics card ever with the NVIDIA GTX 1080, Digital Storm has...
34 by Brett Howse on 5/31/2016
CES 2016: MSI Gaming Notebooks and Mobile Workstations
MSI has branched out into primarily gaming focused systems, but they also use the same gaming chassis as workstation devices too. This year at CES, MSI also launched a...
10 by Brett Howse on 1/15/2016
The Streacom F12C Aluminum Desktop Case Review
Very few companies design high performance desktop cases and, to the dismay of HTPC enthusiasts, such releases are infrequent. Due to the limited volume, the design of a mechanically...
45 by E. Fylladitakis on 9/14/2015
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