Razer refreshed its Blade Stealth laptop with Intel’s 8th Gen quad-core mobile processors, bringing more performance while retaining battery life.

The Razer Blade Stealth laptop now uses Intel’s Core i7-8550U quad-core mobile CPU. Despite being a quad-core part, the i7-8550U has the same TDP as the previous generation dual-core mobile CPUs. This enables it to be fitted into thinner devices all the while doubling the thread count. Users can expect vastly improved multi-threaded and multi-tasking performance with excellent battery life.

Other aspects of the hardware remain unchanged. The Razer Blade Stealth still features a 13.3″ QHD IGZO [...]

Best in Class

Several years ago, Nixeus made a huge splash into the gaming monitor market with their Nixeus NX-VUE24, a relatively inexpensive 24-inch, 1080p monitor that was one of the first monitors to feature a 30Hz-144Hz FreeSync range. The monitor did use a TN panel, so color accuracy and viewing angles weren’t as good as its VA or IPS panel competitors, but the 30Hz-144Hz FreeSync range was glorious compared to the 40Hz-144Hz or 50Hz-144Hz competitors on the market.

Earlier this year at CES 2017, Nixeus was back at it again, this time around with a the new Nixeus NX-EDG27, a 27-inch gaming monitor featuring a 1440p resolution, AHVA (IPS) display technology, a [...]

Ever wanted a new Alienware branded mouse, keyboard, and monitor to go with your new Alienware Area 51 gaming PC? Yeah, you did! That’s why Alienware is announcing a host of new gaming mice, keyboards, and monitors to fulfill your needs.

 

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Alienware is launching two [...]

For most people, buying a new monitor is typically only about the resolution and size of the display. Ever heard of somebody say they just got a 24-inch 1080p monitor? Or someone who said they got a 4K 27-inch monitor? Sure. In fact, most of us have probably done that ourselves, but while the size and resolution of a display is important, what’s equally if not more important is the display technology behind it, which will tell us more about the color accuracy, latency, viewing angles, and more.

 

LCD

LCD, or Liquid Crystal Displays, first became popular when CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube, monitors became mostly obsolete in last decade. Unlike CRTs which [...]

In a new announcement, Acer recently launched the Predator XB241YU 23.8″ gaming monitor. The new gaming monitor features a WQHD (2560×1440) resolution TN panel with a brightness rating of 350 nits. It’ll also feature a response time of 1ms and a refresh rate of up to 144Hz with support for Nvidia G-Sync technology. Connectivity options include DisplayPort and HDMI.

The Acer Predator XB241YU will retail for $499.99 and is available now.

Several years ago, picking out a monitor was relatively easy. Those who needed high end monitors generally purchased an IPS, MVA, or PLS panel while those who didn’t need a high end monitor purchased a TN panel. That was it. There was no curved display, no FreeSync, and no affordable IPS panel either.

After my colleague Tom Li published his 6 Reasons Why Your Next Upgrade Should Be a Second Monitor article, I figured I’d do some research and present you with some of the best monitors available on the market today. In this buying guide, I tried to make recommendations for some of the most common segments, but as there’s so many different monitors out [...]

AOC has launched the first of their Agon branded gaming monitors, which the company unveiled back in April. The 27″ AG27QX is a high-end, 1440p, 144Hz monitor which features AMD’s FreeSync technology. The monitor is available for sale now for $499, which is $100 cheaper than originally planned.

AOC Agon AG27QX 27″ 1440p 1440Hz Gaming Monitor

The 27-inch gaming monitor features a TN-panel and a 1ms response time. Brightness is rated at 350 cd/m2, and it features 1000:1 Contrast Ratio.  This is fairly typical for gaming monitors of this type, but IPS-quipped models are becoming more and more common in the high-end markets. For connectivity, options [...]

During the ASUS’s Republic of Gamer’s event at Computex 2016, the company unveiled the latest in their ROG Swift gaming monitor line. The ROG Swift PG248Q is a 24″ 1080p TN panel, which features NVIDIA’s G-Sync variable refresh-rate technology along with a whopping 180Hz overclockable display, that is also paired with a 1ms response time.

180Hz Overclockable G-Sync Gaming Monitor

ASUS states the PG248Q is designed with the eSports community in mind,  as such it will be the exclusive monitor for major eSports events including ESL One 2016 and The International 2016. The company claims that the monitor was designed specifically for gamers that prefer a [...]

MSI’s New 14″ Portable Gaming Powerhouse

With the introduction of more power efficient CPUs and GPUs along with the introduction of more flexible storage form factors such as M.2, the once massive gaming laptop is now significantly smaller. Over the past couple years, MSI has been among the pioneers of the new trend of ever shrinking gaming laptops, introducing an array of portable systems including the GS70, GS60, GS30 and now the GS40.

Today we’ll be reviewing MSI’s latest GS40 Phantom which is the 14″ variant of MSI’s GS series of gaming laptops. The GS series gaming laptops have always been portable gaming notebooks with high powered [...]