How-To Geek's Best of Computex 2025 Award Winners
Computex 2025 is in full swing, and we've taken a look around at the gear being announced and picked out what we thought was the best of the best.
Computex 2025 is in full swing, and we've taken a look around at the gear being announced and picked out what we thought was the best of the best.
If you've been looking at Intel cards as an alternative to the NVIDIA/AMD duopoly, you might have found that there's not a whole ton of manufacturers making custom Arc cards. Acer has just revealed a couple of custom Intel cards, though, so your options have widened just a tad bit. And one of them is absolutely tiny.
Threadripper CPUs are not worth putting on a gaming PC most of the time, but if you have a particular use case that can really benefit from having a lot of cores and threads, this is probably the CPU to get. AMD has just refreshed its Threadripper range with the new Threadripper 9000 and Threadripper Pro 9000 series.
Not too long ago, we heard that AMD wanted to step back from the flagship graphics card market, and that decision has been strongly reflected in its Radeon RX 9000 lineup. Both of the cards we've seen in this range are mid-range cards, and now, we're going even cheaper with the addition of the Radeon RX 9060 XT.
While most of us buy graphics cards for gaming, there are graphics cards for other purposes as well. NVIDIA has its Quadro range, and AMD's serious range is sold as the Radeon PRO series. Intel has been in the graphics business for two generations now, and the company is finally branching out that second gen into other non-gaming applications.
PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are still a luxury more than an actual necessity, but it's good to see that they're becoming more commonplace and, therefore, have started to go down in price compared to the first batch. Crucial just launched some of the best ones we've seen yet, in case you're hunting down options for your next gaming PC.
I'm personally a fan of the Zephyrus G14, but if 14 inches is a tad too small for you, the Zephyrus G16 line might be a better pick for you. Just like the Zephyrus G14 got a refresh, the G16 did too, and it's looking amazing.
Laptops are meant as portable computers, but sometimes, you gotta actually wonder how "portable" some of them are. This latest laptop by Lenovo packs some serious specs inside, but if you're planning to put this in your backpack, you better not skip back day.
A lot of you guys know I'm a sucker for computers that are dimensionally on the smaller size. Some of them are better than others, some of them are more compact than others. This latest MSI computer might not win any beauty contests, but it's tiny and it's pretty good on the inside. If only you could buy it.
Do you shut your PC off or put it to sleep when leaving the office for the day? I stopped doing this years ago, and I'm never going back. Here's why I leave my PC on 24/7/365, and why you should too.
Storing your headphones might be the last thing on your mind, but keeping them out of harm's way is more important than you might think. Here's what you should know about storing your headphones.
There are few industries as full of snake oil and false promises as the audio world. Everyone wants your money in the pursuit for audio perfection, and often don't care how they get it.
If you don't have room (or the budget) for massive servers to run your homelab, then a mini PC or NUC might be the best choice for you. These compact systems might be tiny in footprint, but pack plenty of power to handle most homelab tasks with ease.
Your Intel Core Ultra 200-series computer might already be fast. But one perk you have by buying newer hardware is that sometimes, new optimizations are found that can make things even faster. Arrow Lake users can now enjoy faster performance—and more importantly, for free.
Few laptops have as much of a legacy as the ThinkPad. It first started as an IBM product, and while the lineup is managed by Lenovo today, they are still awesome pieces of hardware. Now, if you need a keyboard with a nub in your life, there's a few new ThinkPads. And they all look great.
We've seen tons of different PCs on the smaller side, from mini-ITX-sized ones to actual miniatures. Few are as small as this one, though.
If Windows 11 installs buggy drivers or you prefer installing device drivers manually, I’ll show you how to prevent your system from automatically finding and installing the connected devices’ drivers.