Reviews

Area-51

Dell’s dream machine

Clean, fast, massive.

The Last of Us Part II

(Not) The Last of Us

A review of the remastered PC release.

9950X3D champ

AMD’s new champion CPU

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a real performance winner, especially for gamers.

MTTL

AMD vs. everything Nvidia—1,424 tests

The RX 9070 XTX compared to Nvidia’s 5000 series and more.

MTTL

AIBs undergo rigorous assessment in JPR MTTL testing

JPR’s roundup: 7 AIBs, 26 games, 2 resolutions, 600 results.

5070

Nvidia’s midrange RTX 5070 AIB tested

Pretty good board didn’t do well on PMark.

Lenovo IdeaPad

Intel powers the new Lenovo IdeaPad

The Ultra 9 285H brings great value, surprising performance.

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Nvidia RTX 5080, the replacement for RTX 3080 Ti

It’s also better than the RTX 4080 Super.

Games supported

Nvidia DLSS 4 introduces Blackwell GPU

Transformers, multi-frame generation, and ray reconstruction.

B570 and B580

Intel’s B570 shows excellent scaling

Lower-cost Xe GPU Intel Arc B series.

B580 AIB

Intel Arc B580 and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D—great performance for a few dollars

A DIYer’s economic dream machine for under $1,000.

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Dissecting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Deep-dive review of this long-awaited game.