32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $369 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price right now, thanks to a $132 discount

We haven’t really seen standalone RAM fall to anything lower than $330 in quite a while. As mentioned, currently, this is the cheapest 32GB DDR5 kit on the market. It’s not what you paid last year, but we expect prices t…

Why you need a macro pad, even if you have a mouse with 19 buttons — from $10 mechanical numpads to multi-screen window management

The nice thing about a streaming deck setup is that I can group things together — I can put the apps I commonly use at the same time on one “page,” so everything is right there when I want to use it. I can also program a…

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs ‘Counter-Strike 2’

AMD’s Vulkan driver for Windows has developed a reputation for instability. Meanwhile, Linux RADV is generally praised for its stability and performance, sometimes running faster than the AMD Windows driver, especially o…

Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single s

DDR5 has much higher data rates compared to DDR4 (2x or more), and that’s the result of significantly more complexity on DDR5 DIMMs compared to DDR4. Notably for this testing are the two 32-bit subchannels of DDR5, as we…