I definitely need a new power supply. The current one is a 650 watt Seasonic. I looked at pcpartpicker and roughly speced out what a build would be that quite likely is quite similar in power use as ...

Intel's new Arc A770 and Arc A750 graphics cards are out in the wild, reviewed by some of the cherry-picked outlets and influencers online, but most people are noticing many issues... one of them ...

We sometimes wonder if designers ever actually use their own products, or even put them through some sort of human-factors testing before putting them on the market. Consider the mechanism that ...

In addition to the average annual energy usage, the US DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy has also compared electric vehicle power draw to some other common electric appliances ...

Nvidia's new lineup of Blackwell GeForce gaming GPUs will reportedly consume more power than their predecessors, according to the latest leak. Not only that, but the difference apparently becomes even ...

AMD engineers are putting in extra hours this holiday weekend after troubling issues arose over the Radeon RX 480’s power draw—issues that could theoretically (but not likely) damage lower-end ...

Nvidia’s $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 is an incredibly powerful graphics card, but its performance comes at the cost of high power draw. Like a few of the RTX 3000-series cards, Nvidia uses a new kind of ...

We all have those moments. Your phone needs charging, your laptop is dying, and you realize you're out of outlets. So you ...

Have you ever noticed a creeping increase in your monthly electricity bill? It can be challenging to pin down the cause, because there are a number of devices (some of which you wouldn't expect), that ...

As occupants of a vehicle—both driving and riding—our list of plug-in gadgets is ever-growing. Gotta charge your laptop on the way to the office? Need a charging port for that. What about that plug-in ...

Discover which items should never be plugged into a power strip, along with other hazardous mistakes people frequently make.