Lots of people want to play games on the go, but many of them don’t want to (or can’t afford to) spend thousands of dollars on the most premium gaming laptops around. Some of the best gaming laptops are very expensive. But what if you only have $1,000 or less to spend? Recently, I’ve been…
Nvidia’s purported GTX 1630 graphics card has been delayed once again according to the rumor mill, and its incoming RTX 4000 GPUs may also have slid in terms of their release timeframe. Early rumors pointed to the GTX 1630 launching at the start of June, before we heard that the budget GPU had supposedly been…
Nvidia’s purported GTX 1630, a would-be challenger in the budget GPU market, has seen its launch delayed, and according to a new rumor it won’t emerge until June 15. This low-end graphics card – the first xx30 model to come to the GTX family, if it is indeed real as promised – was supposed to debut today,…
Patty Chan/Shutterstock.com If you believe what you see on social media, you may think of multi-thousand-dollar, bright RGB gaming-room setups as the only “real” gaming. Save your money, and use these tips to enjoy gaming for its own sake, without the frill. 1. Don’t Buy Games When They Launch We’ve discussed why you shouldn’t buy…
Micron has introduced two new inexpensive M.2-2280 SSD families aimed at budget PCs. But while Micron’s Crucial P3 Plus and P3 SSDs are meant to be reasonably priced, they still promise capacities of up to 4TB and rather serious sequential read performance of up to 5,000 MB/s. Micron’s Crucial P3 drives feature a PCIe 3.0…
Nvidia’s rumored GTX 1630 budget graphics card is purportedly set to come out in just over a week, and we’ve seen some spilled specs for the GPU, too. The latest speculation from VideoCardz on the GTX 1630 is that it will be released on May 31, and as for the specs, it’s essentially a cut-down…
Nvidia could be preparing to launch a new graphics card at the budget end of the market to go up against AMD’s RX 6400 GPU (and to some extent, the RX 6500 XT). VideoCardz has floated the theory – confirmed by two separate sources, apparently, but still take this with plenty of skepticism – that…
A new single-board computer powered by the eight-core Rockchip RK3588 SoC has appeared via the pages of CNX Software, and the Mekotronics R58 looks to be almost budget-friendly, starting at $169 (pre-order). Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Mekotronics) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Mekotronics) Image 3 of 3 (Image credit: Mekotronics) The high-end…
As we’ve noted in our frequently updated GPU Pricing Index, graphics card prices are on a steady decline (by roughly 12.5 percent last month), much to the delight of PC gamers. However, pricing is still not where we’d like it to be, compared to MSRP. For example, the GeForce RTX 3080 has an MSRP of…
COVINGTON, Ga. — Newton County government’s various departments made requests last week that would represent a 19% increase in the General Fund budget if approved. Requests totaled more than $95 million, which was almost $18 million above the 2022 General Fund — the part of the overall budget that funds most of the county government.…