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The 2023 HP Omen 16 with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, Nvidia RTX 4060, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of PCIe 4.0 storage has received a massive $500 discount. With this deal in place, you can score it for just $1,099.99, which is a great price for a gaming laptop with such specs.

The lightweight, compact XMG Fusion 15 doesn't come with a conventional screen size: Instead of a 16-inch or 15.6-inch screen, it uses a 15.3-inch panel (2,560 x 1,600 pixels, 240 Hz) with a 16:10 aspect ratio. A Core i9 processor, RTX 4070, Thunderbolt 4 and very good runtimes round out its total package.

The April Steam survey is here, and it shows that AMD is still struggling to gain ground over Nvidia in GPU. Among the top 20, there’s only one from AMD, which is likely an iGPU, and it holds the 16th position. As for the most popular graphics card, it’s the RTX 3060, currently holding a 5.71% share.

The Razer Blade 17 is enjoying a whopping 50% discount on Razer’s official site. While the gaming laptop is a little dated now, it still packs very capable specs. The variant that’s on sale equips Intel Core i7-12800H, Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti, and an FHD with a 360 Hz refresh rate.

Mechrevo has launched two new gaming laptops in the Chinese market: Kuangshi 16 Super and Yanshi 16 Super. Both come with Intel Core i9-14900HX and can be equipped with Nvidia RTX 4090. But the interesting part about the two is that they can be water-cooled with an external radiator.

CheckMag If you have a gaming PC, it’s never been easier to stream games to any device in your house. Steam streaming is probably one of the most accessible solutions to stream games from your gaming PC, Valve even released their own hardware (the Steam Link), which is sadly no longer available. However, combined with Steam, Parsec or Sunshine / Moonlight, pretty much anything that has a screen can be turned into a client for game streaming.

CheckMag AMD Link ended support in January and Nvidia GameStream is being actively removed from Shield devices in favour of Geforce Now. Fortunately, a number of other open and closed source solutions offer flexible and arguably better experiences. Here are the best solutions for streaming games to a range of devices in your house and on the move.

System76's COSMIC desktop, designed to run on the Pop!_OS Linux distribution now plays better with Nvidia GPUs, has fully fledged theming capabilities, and as well as a number of exciting third party contributions.

Available since yesterday, the Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 552.22 comes with optimizations for the most wishlisted game on Steam, namely Manor Lords, as well as zero-day optimizations targeting No Rest for the Wicked. These two titles are not yet released, but if everything goes well, they will be live by the end of the month.

A Core i9-14900HX and a GeForce RTX 4070 equip the Aorus 16X (2024) for video editing, gaming and rendering. Adding to this is a bright 16-inch display (16:10, 2,560 x 1,600 pixels, G-Sync), 32 GB RAM, 2 SSDs with 1 TB of storage each, and a Thunderbolt 4 port.

NorthridgeFix, a repair shop, has reported that it replaces hundreds of Nvidia RTX 4090 power connectors per month. More specifically, it has shown off a box of about 200 melted connectors that have been replaced in just one month.

The new Razer Blade 18 can be configured with an Intel Core i9-14900HX, 64 GB of RAM, 4 TB of storage, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, although it won't come cheap, as pricing tops out at an eye-watering $4,799.99.

The world’s top semiconductor foundry TSMC is temporarily offline after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the eastern coast of Taiwan. Nine people have been confirmed dead, over 1,000 injured, and multiple buildings toppled. TSMC fabrication plants have sustained damage, although minor. Key EUV lithography and chip production machines are undamaged.

Power is something the 16-inch Legion Pro 7 doesn’t lack, with the GeForce RTX 4080 and Core i9-14900HX achieving some of their best results in the laptop. The remaining specs are great as well: 32 GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 4, a bright QHD+ display (Dolby Vision, G-Sync, 240Hz, 16:10 aspect ratio). Is this the ideal laptop for gamers and creators?

NVIDIA’s AI research team has unveiled a new generative model that can turn text prompts into 3D models within a second, ready (or at least close to it) for applications such as game development, design and robotics. So far, the model has only been trained to generate “animals and everyday objects”, but more categories can be added. The near-instant speed should transform many workflows.

Introduced at CES 2024 and later launched in the EU, the Asus ROG NUC is now listed on the official US website. Its base configuration with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and Nvidia RTX 4060 has a listed price of $1,629. The other configuration of the gaming mini PC comes with Core Ultra 9 185H and RTX 4070, and it is listed at $2,199.

The next iteration of OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT LLM is only just around the corner, according to a new report. ChatGPT-5 is expected to be substantially smarter, faster and will be multimodal.

Introduced earlier today, the Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver software package labeled 551.86 comes with DLSS 3.5 optimizations for Portal with RTX, zero-day tweaks for the upcoming Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition (scheduled for release in two days), as well as support for a list of 11 G-Sync Compatible displays.

One of the configurations of the 2023 Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 has been discounted by $350 at Best Buy. The gaming laptop that's on sale comes with Intel Core i9-13900H, Nvidia RTX 4070, 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and 16 GB of DDR5 RAM. It's currently available for $1,599.99.

Announced at MWC 2024, Honor has finally unveiled the pricing details of the MagicBook Pro 16. The new Intel Meteor Lake laptop without a dedicated GPU starts at CNY 6,199 (around $861), while the variant with Nvidia RTX 4060 starts at CNY 8,999 (around $1,250). Its maxed-out config with Intel Core Ultra 7, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB storage, and the discrete GPU is CNY 10,199 (around $1,417).

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has unveiled the company’s latest AI products and services for the enterprise during GTC 2024 (GPU Technology Conference) in San Jose, CA. The company announced the Blackwell GPU platform as part of their new lineup powering AI in areas such as robotics, drug discovery, and warehouse automation. Advances in autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots were demonstrated.

Although the most affordable RTX 4070 Ti currently goes for $679, the recent price cut might not be enough for those looking to get the lowest price per frame in a desktop GPU. While being about 8% faster than the RTX 4070 Super at 1440p, the RTX 4070 Ti is more than 13% more expensive. However, even this small price drop spells good news for gamers.

Remedy Entertainment has done some optimisations to the PC version of Alan Wake 2 especially intended to give computers with older GPUs (e.g. GeForce GTX 10 Series) a performance boost. We’ve checked out how well the entire thing works out.

According to Nvidia, Star Wars Outlaws will come to the PC with ray tracing and DLSS 3. A new trailer shows the effects this will have on the graphics.

A new update on the VKD3D-Proton for Linux has added support for Nvidia Reflex on Steam Play. This proprietary tech promises to reduce system latency by keeping the GPU and CPU in sync. So, the frames prepared by the processor don’t need to wait in the render queue, resulting in almost immediate rendering by the GPU.

The base variant of the 2023 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 has seen a generous price cut on Best Buy. It has dropped to $899.99, which is a good sale price for a gaming laptop with Ryzen 7 7735HS and Nvidia RTX 4050. This config also packs 16 GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB PCIe 4.0 SSD.

XMG has launched its latest Fusion 15 and Core 15 gaming laptops, which boast bright, 240 Hz, 16:10 displays alongside the latest Intel Core i9-14900HX and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs.

Lenovo has officially launched the 2024 refresh of the Legion R7000P. As an upgraded gaming laptop, it comes with the latest AMD Ryzen 8845H processor, which is paired with the same GPU as the predecessor, the Nvidia RTX 4060. It's currently available for preorder in China at CNY 8,399 (around $1,168).

The 2023 Lenovo Legion Slim 5 (Gen 8) with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, Nvidia RTX 4060, and 14.5" OLED display has dropped to $1,049.99 at Best Buy. This sale price of the gaming laptop is also a record low, making this deal offer a good overall value.

TSMC is back as one of the world's 10 most valuable companies after its stock surged on the back of strong sales driven by demand for AI chips.

Acer has launched the 2024 Shadow Knight Qing Pro gaming laptop in China. It packs the Intel Raptor Lake processors with the top-end model featuring the Core i7-13620H. As for the GPU, the base variant has Nvidia RTX 4050, while the other two come with RTX 4060. The starting price is CNY 5,999 (around $834).

Mechrevo Aurora S made its official debut last year with an Intel Core i9-12900HX and Nvidia RTX 4060 discrete GPU. The same mini PC just got another configuration, which features an Intel Core i7-12650H but has the same GPU as before. This new config starts at CNY 4,899 (around $682), making it CNY 1,100 (around $153) cheaper than last year's base variant.

Nvidia is offering more options to gamers with new subscriptions on GeForce NOW. Instead of committing to a monthly plan, you can get Day Passes. There are two options for the 24-hour subscription. One of them offers an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 rig for $7.99 a day.

Lenovo has silently launched the 2024 GeekPro G5000 in the Chinese market. Like the predecessor, the new gaming laptop has a CPU from the Raptor Lake series: the Intel Core i7-13650HX, which is paired with either the Nvidia RTX 4060 or RTX 4050. But the good thing about it is that the HX processor offers a notable performance boost over the previous model.

Now also available via the Nvidia app (still in beta stage for the time being), the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver package carries the version number 551.76 and comes with support for DLSS 3 and Reflex in The Thaumaturge. This software package is also optimized for the latest RTX 40 Series-equipped laptops that arrived last week.

The mid-tier 2023 Lenovo Legion Slim 5 gaming laptop with a 16-inch screen has dropped back to its all-time low price. It’s currently available for $899.99 on Best Buy. The configuration that’s on sale comes with the AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS, Nvidia RTX 4060, 512 GB of fast storage, and 16 GB of RAM.

CheckMag Microsoft has historically monopolised the PC gaming space with Windows, but with increasingly invasive ads, bloat and data collection, many Windows users are looking for an alternative. Thanks to the Steam Deck, Valve and community projects like Proton GE, Linux is becoming a more viable option for gaming.

The top-end configuration of the 2023 Razer Blade has dropped down by $300 on Best Buy. It comes with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU, Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, a spacious 16:10 display, and a solid chassis design. All that makes this gaming laptop a good purchase even at this discounted yet expensive price tag of $2,399.99.

Xiaomi first teased the 2024 Redmi G Pro at the big product launch event last month. The company later shared info on the top-end configuration and hinted that the gaming laptop would offer a good price-to-performance ratio. Now, Xiaomi is claiming that it can beat a similarly configured 2024 Lenovo Legion Y9000P.

One of the configurations of the 2023 Lenovo Legion Pro 5i is back to its all-time low price on Best Buy. The gaming laptop features a 13th gen Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, and 1 TB of PCIe 4.0 storage, all of which makes it pretty capable for good FPS in most games.

The GIGABYTE Aorus 15 offers robust performance suitable for gaming, content creation, and professional tasks, thanks to its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU and Intel 13th-gen i7-13700H processor. Featuring 16 GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD, it ensures smooth multitasking and ample storage. While its QHD display lacks full sRGB and P3 color gamut coverage, its 165Hz refresh rate and 7ms response time cater well to gamers. With a current $350 discount on Amazon, the Aorus 15 offers value that is hard to beat.

Tecno has showcased many innovative tech and new products at MWC 2024. On the computing side, there's the Mega Mini Gaming G1, which is a mini PC that comes with water cooling. This cooling setup aims to make the Intel Core i9 CPU and dedicated Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU offer sustained performance under heavy loads.

CheckMag If you weren't keeping an eye on Nvidia's GeForce News blog, you might've missed the RTX 3050 6 GB's release at the start of February. Even in a market segment desperate for a lean, entry-level graphics card, it's far from being "The Ultimate Play" that the 30-series tagline proclaims. In fact, the near-silent launch tells you all you need to know: it's an embarrassment.