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A $14 Mouse Beat Every Wired Mouse in a 12-Mouse Budget Roundup
Twelve best-selling mice from Amazon, none over $15, and the fastest of the lot talks over Bluetooth instead of a cable.
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Microsoft's Magnetic USB-C Adds a Port and Quietly Takes One Away
Microsoft's Magnetic Connect is the rare case of a vendor altering the physical layer of USB-C instead of the protocol running over it: magnets on…
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A Full SSD Costs You Writes, Not Frames
The advice to keep a fifth of your SSD empty has been repeated for so long that it has stopped being a claim and become furniture.
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Sound Chambers Have a Data Problem: 845 Measured Ears
Every headphone target curve is applied to ears nobody in particular owns, built on dummy heads approximating an average nobody measured.
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Corsair's Warthog Is a $200 Paint Job on an $85 Chassis
The Warthog is the most fun-looking case of the year and it sits on a chassis Corsair sells for less than half the money.
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The Summit Is Bent Walnut Wrapped Around a Worse Meshify 3
Fractal's new flagship is one continuous strip of bent oak or walnut, four matching feet, and the same fans that already power the Meshify 3 &a
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The HAF II 500 Is the First Cooler Master Case in Years Worth $200
Two 220mm fans, both 40mm thick, inside a box nearly 56cm deep — and for the first time in a long while Cooler Master has a case that wins on merit…
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Thermalright Copied Lian Li's Cheapest Fishtank and Charged More for It
Thermalright's first case is a panoramic glass box that owes its layout, its corner brace and its drive cage to a Lian Li costing less money.
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A Warning Light Is Not a 12VHPWR Fix
The 12VHPWR failure that matters never announces itself. It cooks a single contact inside a connector while the machine keeps running, so the first sign…
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The $60 Case Is Back Because Nobody Can Afford Anything Else
Montech's TG3 is a $60 box with four 120mm fans, a perforated shroud, back-connect support and a lighting hub — a specification t
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TRYX's Flova F50: A Clever Fan in a Case Built to Defeat It
The Flova F50 is the first ATX tower I can name that ships a tangential blower as standard, and at $150 that alone earns it a look.
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The Best Cooler of 2025 Won on Brackets, Not Degrees
Twenty-six coolers, two AMD heat loads and a hemi-anechoic chamber add up to a chart where the top of the air-cooling field sits inside about two degrees.
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ID-Cooling’s Real Problem Is Noise, Not Scented Paste
Scented thermal paste belongs on a trade-show shelf, not in a build log, and it is not why anyone should pay attention to ID-Cooling this year.
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Fifty Liters of Fluid Is the Whole Immersion Story
Thermaltake's immersion display is the most striking thing in its lineup and the least buyable: a Xeon workstation sunk in 50 liters of dielectric…
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The Crossflow Case Is Real. The Test That Justifies It Isn't.
TRYX is putting tangential blowers into an ATX tower and telling buyers the airflow will be smoother and the noise lower.
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Scythe Is Moving to Taiwan and, Somehow, Building Its First Liquid Cooler
Scythe's European branch is in insolvency proceedings, its operations are consolidating in Taiwan, and the same trade show where that news landed…
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Cooler Master Built a Case Out of Columns and a Fan Out of Aluminum
Cooler Master's most interesting hardware this year is not a cooler. It is a chassis assembled from eight corners and twelve columns, shipped as a kit…
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Noctua’s First Liquid Cooler, and the Thermosiphon It Beat
Noctua has been the last holdout on liquid cooling for as long as the category has existed, and the answer it brought is a pump block packed with…