PC Perspective

Arbiter Polar 65, A Keyboard With Hall Effect Magnetic Switches

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:15:51 +0000

Move over linear switches, and mechanical switches head back to the shop because the Hall Effect has come to keyboards. The Arbiter Polar 65 has hot swappable 36g linear Hall Effect switches…

Dan Clark Audio’s New E3 Closed-Back Headphones

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:24:35 +0000

If you laugh at the $200 in ear monitors which are so popular right now and can't stand the sound of closed back headsets that cost a mere $500 then you are…

Apple To Allow Some Broken Parts To Be Replaced On Some Models

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:17:22 +0000

If you have a broken iPhone then the recent news from Apple might cheer you up, but not necessarily. Apple has agreed to permit at least some parts on a broken phone…

Star Wars Outlaws – Scoundrels Only, No Nerf Herders

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:18:16 +0000

If you want to jabber with Jabba or collude with the Crimson Dawn then Star Wars Outlaws is just your kind of game. Hang out with the major players in the underworld,…

Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD-OLED Monitor Review

Kent Burgess — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:37:22 +0000

For a few years now, gaming OLED monitors have been out there like the hyper cars of the gaming nerd world. The game-changing performance truly had to be experienced to be believed.…

Got An Old D-Link NAS Device? Dump It Just Like D-Link Has!

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:50:42 +0000

There are four models of D-Link NAS, all of which have hit end of service, which should definitely be immediately disconnected if you have them attached to anything. All four have a…

All Aboard For Integrated Ryzen 8700G And 8600G Graphics Testing

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:56:10 +0000

It's a good thing that iGPU performance has seen such a boost over the last couple of generations, considering the simultaneous increase of prices for discrete GPUs. The days of the $500…

CORSAIR M75 WIRELESS Lightweight RGB Gaming Mouse Quick Review

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:57:08 +0000

Corsair's latest wireless mouse, the M75 WIRELESS which the company sent over for this review, is an understated-looking product with a modest RGB implementation and - more importantly - an ambidextrous design.

This…

Getting Into IoT Is A RISC-V Business Move

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:42:05 +0000

Imagination Technologies is hoping to snag some marketshare from ARM with their new APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU, designed to power all those smart appliances we love to hate. The cores of the APXM-6200…

Podcast #767 – Intel Foundry Loses Billions, XZ Backdoor, Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Case, SSD Pricing, RX 550 or April Fool’s?

PCPer Staff — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:00:09 +0000

We aren't too proud of this technological terror we've constructed, because the ability to record a podcast is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz. Intel Foundry news, SSD pricing,…

The Silent Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:50:36 +0000

The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM is a flat QD-OLED display 31.5" in size with a 3,840 x 2,160 which supports DisplayHDR True Black 400. It can hit up to a 240Hz…

Beware Of A Notepad++ Clone Or Not?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:10:28 +0000

The makes of Notepad++ are sending out a warning today to avoid what they call a parasite website, which looks very similar to theirs. The new site, notepad.plus carries branding similar to…

A Pi 5 PC Or A No Name Amazon Mini Desktop?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:11:45 +0000

The Raspberry Pi 5 is an impressive beast compared to it's predecessors, and can make a half decent solution for a low powered desktop PC. The price is also bigger than other…

PCIe 6.0 Is Already Outdated, So Here’s The First Draft Of PCIe 7.0

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:58:37 +0000

While we haven't even seen PCIe 6.0, the PCI SIG consortium have been busily drafting up PCIe 7.0 and today they released our first look at what it will be capable of. …

Try Grimhook For Free, See If You Want To Wishlist The Full Version

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:15:47 +0000

Are you a fan of first person platforming games and haven't tried Grimhook? It's free to grab on Steam and just received a number of patches, so why not give…

Enterprise SSD Prices Skyrocket, Expect The Same For Consumer Grade

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:39:49 +0000

When it was announced that at least one major cryptocurrency was moving from proof of work to proof of stake there was concern that this could drive up the price of SSDs. …

Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Mid Tower Case Review

Kent Burgess — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:04:30 +0000

Thermaltake and I have a long history, and I’ve been a bit rough on many of the review samples I’ve received. Hopefully they keep sending me cases, or at least take some…

MSI’s Spatium M580 Frozr SSD; Passive Cooling, Intense Data Transfer

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:53:06 +0000

MSI's Spatium M580 is a Phison based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% of it an SLC cache, and an 8GB DDR4-4266 cache, all of which is passively…

Stop The Magic Smoke From Escaping With The SilverStone IceMyst 420 AiO Cooler

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:17:26 +0000

SilverStone have upscaled their IceMyst 420 AiO CPU cooler with three 140mm fans, for those cases that can fit the larger fans. If you can't quite fit this model there are also…

Some Relief For Linux Admins Living In Terror Of The XZ Backdoor

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:21:10 +0000

Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ…