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The Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB has a 2,400 x 1,080, 60Hz curved screen and massive cooling power, and right now you can save over $40 on it.
A custom-designed version of its new CPUs could make Intel-based gaming handhelds a better option this time around.
For this week only, Best Buy just dropped the price on the powerful iBuypower Y40 Pro gaming PC, equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor and RTX 5080 graphics card, to just $2,109.99 shipped. Although this system was a bit cheaper during Black Friday, it's currently the lowest price I can find for a prebuilt RTX 5080 gaming PC.
Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X CPU, which looked very promising at launch and ought to have been getting into its stride this year.
I challenge any PC maker at CES 2026 to serve up a more eye-catching desktop design than the Asus ROG G1000, which comes kitted out with outrageous dancing holograms in the side and front windows.
Quiet gaming PC builds rely on smart cooling, airflow tuning, and case design to reduce noise while maintaining strong performance.
Admittedly, the EliteBoard G1a is essentially a business laptop that's had the screen ripped off and the sides all chopped away. But even so, the remaining keyboard still sports a numpad (though the whole thing is too compact to be classed as full-sized) and the internal gubbins are respectable enough, if just not very potent.