The Best Monitors in 2026, by the Job
Nine desks, nine answers. Color work, multitasking, a second screen for the laptop, gaming, and the 5K Mac display that costs a thousand dollars less than Apple's.
Best RAM for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D
The GPU Buying Guide: What to Actually Buy in August 2026
Best Item Trackers in 2026
The Logitech G512 X 98 Puts Analog and Mechanical in One Board
ROG at 20: The Gold Edition 20 Lineup
ASUS gave nearly its whole gaming catalog a gold anniversary makeover for 20 years of Republic of Gamers. A tour of the lineup, the pieces that matter, and the ones that are pure victory lap.
The RX 9070 GRE Is the Best-Value RDNA 4 Card, If You Buy It Right
AMD's cheapest RDNA 4 card runs 1440p well and undercuts the RTX 5070 by about $150. Whether it turns out a good buy or a great one comes down to the price you pay that day.
Bolt Graphics Says Zeus Is 10x an RTX 5090. If It Delivers, It's a Landmark.
A startup taped out its first Zeus test chip and says it beats an RTX 5090 by 5 to 13x in path tracing, with memory no consumer card matches. If even part of that survives real silicon, it reorders rendering and compute. What Bolt is building, and where it has to deliver.
The Steam Machine Is $1,049. Two Builds Beat It for Less.
Valve's Steam Machine ships June 30 at $1,049. SteamOS 3.8 now installs on any AMD-graphics PC, so a used sleeper build at half the price, or a new one for $887, matches it and passes it.
Father's Day Tech Gifts Under $100
Five Amazon picks that ship by Sunday and earn drawer-space instead of attic-space. All under $100, none of them novelties.
The Best E-Readers in 2026
Five picks from $89 to $279. The Paperwhite hack that beats the ad tax, the budget basic Kindle, two Kobos for library and color, and a pocket-sized Boox that reads like a phone refused to be.
Intel Arc G3 and G3 Extreme: Intel's First Ground-Up Handheld Chip Lands This Summer
Two SKUs on Intel 18A, Xe3 GPUs up to 12 cores, XeSS 3 multi-frame generation, and three OEM design wins ready for June. Plus four handhelds shipping today.