Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but ...

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Use these fixes if your Windows PC is stuck in a boot loop after a BIOS update. Before proceeding, disconnect all peripherals and check if your PC boots into Windows. Press and hold the power button ...

At CES 2026, the big maker of mobile chips teased details—and some benchmarks—for its new mainstream Snapdragon processor family for laptops, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. Here's how it shapes up versus a ...

Research firm IDC predicts that the average price of computers could rise by up to 8% in 2026 due to a global shortage of memory chips (RAM and NAND). The background is the sharp increase in demand ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The future is looking pretty bleak for PC gaming, unfortunately. Gaming has always been a really ...

The drive letter X: in Windows usually stands for the use of a RAM disc. RAM refers to Random Access Memory, i.e. the working memory of your PC. You can make part of it available as a RAM disc and ...

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