I have been using the Asus Flow Z13 hybrid notebook for 5 months as my primary work device, and it doesn't disappoint. It is powerful, snappy and is able to perform optimally no matter work kind of workload it is currently in. The display is sharp and plenty bright for my needs. The size is... Continue Reading →
PC games today are technically demanding. Some of the latest graphical features that modern games incorporate to enhance visuals and realism put a lot of stress into a modern GPU. Examples include real-time ray-tracing, path tracing, global illumination, and physically-based rendering, just to name a few. Turning all these features to the max settings can... Continue Reading →
Remember I made a post about getting the 4080 Super after not being able to get my hands of the new generation of GPUs from Nvidia and telling you guys that it was ok? Well, I caved. I bought the recently bought the Asus Tuf RTX 5080. I literally FOMO'ed. And I feel like my... Continue Reading →
Last month, I took a leap of faith and decided to purchase the newly released (and pricey) Asus ROG Flow Z13 2025. It is a laptop-tablet hybrid that features AMD's latest 16 core, 32 thread Strix Halo APU, the Ryzen AI Max +395 with Radeon 8060s integrated GPU. This APU is so fast, that it... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, I decided to sell my 5th Gen, 12.9 inch iPad Pro with m1 chip. I bought it back in 2021. During the Covid era, it makes sense and everything was on lockdown for most of the year. A tablet like the iPad Pro made a lot of sense when you are cooped up at... Continue Reading →
I initially planned to get Nvidia's new flagship GPU, the RTX 5090. But when reviews and performance benchmarks were trickling in, the reception got a little more muted after all the hype surrounding the upcoming GPU when it was announced at CES 2025. Performance numbers weren't that great compared to the previous flagship GPU, the... Continue Reading →
At the turn of 2025, I decided to get myself a new gaming monitor. Not just any monitor, but an OLED panel. For a while now, I have always been hesitant in getting an OLED panel as a gaming monitor. Screen burn-in issues was my number one concern at the time. Second was the price.... Continue Reading →
My new gaming rig is a radical departure from past gaming set ups that I have in the past. The most major departure is the lack of RBG aesthetics. Gone were the days that I invested quite a bit on RGB fans and peripherals to bling out my gaming rig. There is no more of... Continue Reading →
With the next gen GPU launching imminently according to rumors on the internet (as soon as CES 2025 in Jan 2025) I finally upgraded my 3 year old PC which had parts from an older PC that I custom built before that. The previous PC was a 12th generation Intel Alder Lake CPU, the 12600K,... Continue Reading →
I started learning how to play Magic The Gathering late last year and made a post in December about how obsessed I have become obsessed with the trading card game. Five months in and I am still obsessed about it. I have probably spent thousands of dollars on cards and there seems to be no... Continue Reading →
Sometime in November of 2020, a couple of months after the launch of Nvidia’s latest 3000 series GPUs, I saw someone on Carousell trying to sell an RTX 3080 from a pre-built gaming pc that he bought. He wasn’t interested in using it. Despite being in a prebuilt, with the GPU used and fixed in... Continue Reading →
I am truly grateful to be able to get my hands on a brand new RTX 3080 GPU. Ever since its official launch more than two months ago, these things are still very rare as demand is still outstripping supply. It is so rare, that people are scalping these things and selling them at way... Continue Reading →
On Prime Day, I bought the Razer Hunstman Mini keyboard. It was going for about $160, instead of the usual $189 at retail, so a small discount, enough to push me to the edge and click on the 'buy' button. Honestly I don't really need a new keyboard, since my current one was working mostly... Continue Reading →
After close to a month, the new NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 is still nowhere to be found. It is as scarce and rare as ever. I have not been successful in getting my hands on one of these things as the demand is just astronomical. I am a little bit disappointed at not being able... Continue Reading →
Ever since AMD released their latest line of 'Zen" CPUs, the CPU landscape has never looked so exciting in a long time. With competition from the red camp, Intel is now upping its game in pushing forward the release schedule of their latest 'Coffeelake" CPU, the 8th Generation of new CPU from Intel that is... Continue Reading →
Exactly one year ago today, I completed building my first ever gaming rig. I was an increadible experience. I learnt a lot PC gaming rigs and how to build one. It was a journey I started months ago before actually acquiring the parts. But once I did, it was a journey I enjoyed tremendously. One... Continue Reading →
Mass Effect Andromeda was released sometime in March of 2017. It's August as of this writing. I took nearly 6 months to complete Mass Effect Andromeda. Mass Effect Andromeda was one of the most anticipated video game. When it was first announced, I was beyond excited. For Bioware to bring the beloved Mass Effect franchise... Continue Reading →
In the past couple of days, there has been a deluge of information regarding AMD's new product offering from the CPU and GPU departments. The latest monster of a cpu, Threadripper was launched to much fanfare and I really dig the review kits AMD distributed to all major influential tech reviewers on YouTube. The review... Continue Reading →
Today, I have successfully built another gaming rig for a friend of mine. It was hugely satisfying. I advised him on how and where to get the various parts for his new gaming PC and for how much. We set off on one of the weekend a few weeks ago getting those parts, from Sim... Continue Reading →
I am at a tipping point where I am very close to buying all the parts needed to build my very own DIY PC. I think I can safely say that the tipping point for that decision came about when I impulsively bought 2 EVGA GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 GPU at a relatively competitive price... Continue Reading →
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