KitGuru has been invited to Valencia, Spain, where AOC and Philips both announced a huge number of new monitors. We've already covered Graphic Pro, AOC's new series aimed at professional users, but here we are very much focused on gaming displays - from high-end OLEDs to budget VAs (and much more!) all on show...
Read More »AOC debuts new ‘Graphic Pro’ lineup of professional monitors
KitGuru is out in Valencia, Spain, where AOC and Philips have just unveiled a whole bunch of new monitors. For the gamers out there, we will have a whole separate article detailing the latest and greatest, but first we need to discuss the new Graphic Pro series, AOC's first foray into the professional market...
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With the exception of The Last of Us Part 1, most of Sony's PlayStation games have ran very well on a broad range of PC hardware. Sony's support of cutting-edge PC features like the latest versions of FSR and DLSS has also gone a long way. Now, Ghost of Tsushima …
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Read More »MSI Intel Motherboards (2024) – Tomahawk, Edge and ACE!
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Read More »25 games are leaving PlayStation Plus next month
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