If you’re buying or building a new gaming PC for Windows 10 and DirectX 12, your priority should be as many “real” CPU cores you can afford, running at high clock speeds. At least, that’s the ...
Microsoft's Flight Simulator series is notoriously GPU-hungry, so naturally, I had to test Flight Simulator 2024 on multiple ...
Hitman 2 was released last year and is the latest in a string of games from IO Interactive, but the developer recently updated the game with some new tricks: namely DX12, and in the last few months a ...
My test laptop was a non-descript Lenovo machine with an Intel Core Ultra X9 388H onboard, the top-end Panther Lake CPU from ...
At eTeknix we were fortunate enough to have received a pair of GTX 980s for Nvidia’s launch day so we thought we’d see what they have to offer in SLI. When running a pair of the same GPUs in SLI it is ...
Apple's newest M2 chip, first seen in the 2022 MacBook Pro, promises improved graphics performance. Is it worth the upgrade if you have a machine with M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max graphics? Check out the ...
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How We Test Desktop PCs

Desktop PCs were the first computer category PCMag, in its infancy, started out covering, and they're still one of the most important. (They're in our very name, after all.) And we've been testing ...
If you've been a gamer for at least a decade, then you will recognize Max Payne as the PC third-person shooter of the early 2000s. Notable for its film noir style and use of the bullet time effect ...
TL;DR: Intel's Xe2 graphics architecture has been integrated into its Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V mobile chips, and the company is already testing next-gen Xe3 in upcoming Panther Lake chips. Although ...