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Overloaded quickly? Intel's NUC11 Essential Kit is based on an Intel Jasper Lake SoC and is perfect for office work. We took a closer look at the mini PC with an Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and Intel Celeron N4505. In this review, you can read about what both systems have to offer.

An unforgettable experience. Nearly five years after the debut of their surprise hit The Forest, the developers at Canadian studio Endnight Games have released the sequel to the title. Sons of the Forest once again offers an interesting game design that combines open-world exploration and survival horror. Read our benchmark check to find out whether its hardware requirements are just as terrifying.

Thunderbolt 4 in a tiny bottle. The Intel NUC 12 Pro Kit is a tiny but powerful mini PC. Its powerful 12th-Gen Alder Lake Core i5-1240P offers great computing power, although graphics performance is lacking. Like it's bigger brother, perhaps its greatest strength is its excellent port selection, which includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Intel Core i5-1240P | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs | 549 g

Real eye candy. Atomic Heart isn't just stylish in gameplay - it is also a top-tier game from a technical standpoint. The first-person shooter is definitely one of the best looking PC games released in the past few years. You can read about what that means in terms of hardware requirements in our benchmark check.

Gaming without AMD and Nvidia? We have put the Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Kit - a compact desktop PC with an up-to-date Alder Lake SoC - to the test. The actual highlight, however, is the Intel Arc A770M - but the test sadly showed a lot of wasted potential with this. Find out more in this review with comprehensive benchmarks and measurements.
Intel Core i7-12700H | Intel Arc A770M | 2 kg

A field day for tinkerers and analysts. Nearly two years after Returnal made its debut on consoles, the third-person shooter has now also arrived on PC. The dark sci-fi game feels like a mix of Dead Space, Deathloop and Dark Souls. Its extensive graphics menu is particularly impressive.

Sparse visuals, deep gameplay. The RTS specialists at Relic Entertainment have released a new genre heavyweight with Company of Heroes 3. Read our benchmark check to find out how well the game runs on various laptop and desktop GPUs.

Game without compromise! XMG SECTOR is the name given to this cutting-edge gaming computer. In this review, we will be taking a closer look at and examining the performance of a high-end configuration with an Intel Core i9-13900K and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090.
Intel Core i9-13900K | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090