The Best AMD Motherboards for Gaming in 2024

Read update Planning on assembling a gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen processor at its heart? If that’s the case, your rig should pack amotherboardcompatible with AMD processors, which will let your rig perform at the best possible level. UPDATE: 27-07-2025 We’ve updated our roundup with a variety of new AMD motherboards. Take a look! ASRock X670E Taichi Support Gaming Motherboard What to Look For in an AMD Gaming Motherboard in 2024 Before making any move, ensure that the motherboards you’re interested in are compatible with the AMD Athlon or Ryzen CPU you plan on buying....

July 24, 2025 · 16 min · 3388 words · Christine Sanders

This Family Sedan Delivers Comfort, Features, and Value at a Great Price

This affordable mid-size sedan often flies under the radar, but it deserves serious consideration if you’re shopping for a practical and capable family car. It blends comfort, space, and efficiency into a well-rounded package that works just as well for daily commutes as it does for weekend road trips. With a roomy interior, supportive seats, and a large trunk, it’s designed with families in mind. The ride is smooth and quiet, while available all-wheel drive gives it an edge over many rivals in poor weather conditions....

July 24, 2025 · 7 min · 1305 words · Yvonne Bell

This Linux Laptop Has a Powerful AMD Ryzen Chip

Summary Linux-first laptops are overlooked because of their specs sometimes, but you can find some pretty sweet and powerful deals on the open-source side of the pond. This laptop by Tuxedo is one of the most powerful you can buy, and it comes with Linux out of the box. Tuxedo, a German Linux hardware manufacturer, has just shown off the InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10. This laptop range stands up to options from companies likeSystem76andKubuntu Focus, and is built around AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series of processors, codenamed “Strix Point....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 472 words · Brandy Kline

This Tiny Smart Remote Is More Exciting Than CES’s Biggest Ideas

CES 2025 is in full flow and there’s no shortage of impressive smart home technology on display, but the only gadget that’s gotten me excited is a tiny smart remote with big possibilities. CES Is Filled With Smart Home Tech I’d Never Buy The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place in Las Vegas every year and is a big opportunity for technology manufacturers to unveil their latest and most impressive developments....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · Clifford Richards

Today's NYT Connections Hints and Answer for August 17 (#432)

Quick Links Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t—Connections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered. What Is Connections? Connections is a game from the New York Times. The objective is simple: sort 16 words into groups of 4....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 475 words · Sonya Simpson

Today's NYT Connections Hints and Answer for May 3 (#327)

Quick Links Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t—Connections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered. What Is Connections? Connections is a game from the New York Times. The objective is simple: sort 16 words into groups of 4....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Ashley Aguilar

What Is TJMax in CPUs?

Summary If you’ve monitored your CPU temperature or looked at its product page, you might have encountered the term “TJMax.” But what does this peculiar specification mean, and have you ever wondered what would happen if your CPU were to reach its TJMax? What Does TJMax Mean? TJMax (Thermal Junction Maximum) is a specification that represents the maximum temperature in aCPUorGPUbefore its transistors become unreliable. The “junction” is the location on the CPU die where the temperature is measured....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 543 words · Kevin Watkins

19 Seconds of History: The First YouTube Video Is 20 Years Old

Quick Links 20 years ago, a 19-second video in crisp 240p changed everything. You might not remember it, but a humble video simply titled “Me at the zoo” quietly marked the dawn of a new era. Oh, how far we’ve come since then. A Brief History of YouTube YouTube was officially founded on February 14th, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 759 words · Connie Hall

4 Reasons I’m Not Buying Another Video Game Until Next Year

Summary I have almost 1000 Steam games, hundreds of Switch games, and probably just as many PlayStation games. I couldn’t finish all the games before the Grim Reaper comes to take me to the Great Arcade In The Sky, so why do we keep buying more? It’s time to stop, and four things in particular convinced me to wake up and smell the fiscal responsibility by taking a year-long break from buying video games....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 604 words · Kevin Rogers

5 Smart Home Automations I Thought I Wanted but Never Use

I recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of my first smart home purchase. After buying my first set of smart bulbs, it was a matter of days before I set up my first smart home automation using openHAB. Since then, I’ve spent countless hours tinkering with my smart home. Many of my smart home automations are incredibly useful and get fired on a daily basis. Not every automation turns out to be a hit, however....

July 23, 2025 · 7 min · 1407 words · Aaron Barton

Adobe Premiere Pro Can Now Find Your Clips With Text Searches

Adobe is bringing new features to its Premiere Pro video editor, including caption translations and the ability to search videos by describing them. Premiere Pro can now recognize objects, locations, camera angles, and more in videos but doesn’t identify or label people (yet). You can simply describe the footage to find videos in your library via a new Search panel. For example, you can find matching items with simple search keywords like “California” or use natural language for more complex queries, such as “a person skating with a lens flare” or “a person skating with a lens flare,” the company said....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Jason Hunt

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds Is Doing Exactly What We Want With PC Ports

Capcom is responding to worries about the performance of the PC version ofMonster Hunter Wilds. Capcom is looking into ways to lower the recommended GPU requirements, in what hopefully is a sign of game development trends. Capcom listedsome high recommended system requirementsforMonster Hunter Wilds, mentioning that players will need an Nvidia GTX 1660 Super or an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT to run the game smoothly at 1080p with the lowest settings and upscaling....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Stacey Medina

Elgato's New 4K Capture Device Has an Affordable Price Tag

Elgato just released the Game Capture 4K S. This is a brand-new external capture card that’s perfect for anyone looking to stream or record their gameplay from Mac, PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox, or other HDMI-compatible device. One of the coolest things about this new capture card is its capture speed while continuing to show gameplay at a good quality. you may record in 4K60 quality with zero-latency passthrough and an incredibly low preview delay, as little as 30ms....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Peter Fernandez