WITH MOBILE PROCESSORS from Intel, new graphics cards from Nvidia, and a whole host of monitors and laptops from everyone else, this CES had plenty of shiny new tech for us to get excited about. Let's start with gaming laptops, which are getting thinner, lighter, and more portable than ever before; perfect if you're looking for a machine that's small and light enough to take into the office, but powerful enough to slay demons in Diablo at lunchtime. There were also a litany of new OLED monitors, which while still being on the pricey side, are at least going to be available in smaller sizes, so you no longer need a massive desk to accommodate one.
Predictably, the buzzword of CES 2024 was Al, and entertainment could be had counting the number of references to the shareholder-pleasing term during keynotes. In reality, we did see some cool uses of artifical intelligence, most notably in Lenovo's Legion laptops, which will sense what you're doing with your PC and apply overclocking settings if it's gaming or creative work, or throttle things down for word processing to save battery.
With that said, here are the best products we saw at the show, and the tech we're most anticipating this year. Best get saving now.
NVIDIA’S AI NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER
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NZXT C1500 Platinum
Top-tier performance and efficiency
Nvidia DLSS vs AMD FSR
Which AI upscaling technique has the edge?
World of Goo 2
Goo-d enough for two
BenQ X300G 4K Short Throw Projector
Priced high, yet punchy
Hyte Thicc Q60
Almost more mobile phone than CPU cooler
Remove stalkerware from your PC
ACCORDING TO KASPERSKY’S LATEST ‘State of Stalkerware’ report, over 40 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they’d experienced stalking or suspected that they were being stalked.
BUILD AN IT SUPPORT HUB
Discover how to use RustDesk to provide remote assistance and control your own devices remotely with Nick Peers
AMD's turn to drop the ball?
WITH INTEL'S RAPTOR LAKE CPUs falling over, the company firing around 15,000 employees, and cancelling its 2024 innovation event, AMD must have been enjoying the view - until its new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs rolled out. So, is AMD's CPU a minor stumble or game-changing fumble?
Intel issues fix for Raptor Lake degradation
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I wrote about difficulties I was having with a Core 19-13900K processor (see MPC230 Tech Talk). Little did we realize that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. While most complaints have involved the unlocked Core i9 Raptor Lake CPUs, it appears the instability problems build up and potentially impact many Raptor Lake-13th and 14th Gen Core CPUs, with Intel identifying 22 different desktop parts.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
The new Zen 5 CPUs are here—time to benchmark!
