We have all seen it, countless posts on Reddit and YouTube videos showing someone's brand new gaming build they have just completed. They list out all of the killer hardware that's inside the rig and they then share the photos of their gaming PC, only to display a rats nest of tangled cables.

One of the most often overlooked aspects when it comes to building a computer is cable management. People often skip taking the time to properly plan and organise their cables, thinking that once they put the side panel on their computer case that the cables are out of sight, out of mind.

Little do they realise that their poor cable management is likely hindering the performance of their new and expensive gaming PC.

Let’s take a bit of a dive into cable management and see why it's a step that you can't afford to miss.
 

So, you're looking to get a new monitor, or perhaps you are looking to get a new beast of a laptop but you need something that has a killer display. It can be hard to know what to choose out of the hundreds of options available nowadays.

You saved up all of your money and spent hours upon hours researching the best hardware for you to create the perfect gaming computer. You purchased everything that you needed and took meticulous care with putting everything together.

Creativity Starts Here.

Featuring 4K resolution. Stunning OLED panel. 4-side thin bezel with 16:10 golden ratio display.
Supercharged by Intel Core 12th Gen CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. And the AERO hub.
Learn More: https://www.aorus.com/laptops/AERO-16--Intel-12th-Gen

Join GIGABYTE for this year's CES and witness how we will revolutionize the way you game and create with our latest laptops, gaming monitors, and more.

AORUS reshapes the game with the brand new AORUS 17. With the bent-type panel, we manage to squeeze a 17 inch screen into a 15 inch tall chassis, delivering the never-before-seen portability on a 17 inch laptop. Rocking the latest INTEL 12th gen CPU and the NVIDIA RTX 30 series GPU, AORUS 17 is your true portable gaming powerhouse!

The brand-new, highly anticipated AERO 16 and AERO 17 featuring 12th-gen Intel CPU have arrived! On top of their stunning visuals and excellent thermal design, how do these two ultimate creator laptops fare in terms of real-world performance? Let's find out!

Introducing the all-new AORUS 17 gaming laptop, GIGABYTE’s top-of-the-line mobile gaming powerhouse. Today we will put this performance beast to the test, running some benchmarks and going through a series of AAA titles to see what exactly we are getting.

At CES 2022, GIGABYTE launched the latest members in the AORUS family, and the AORUS 17 stands out among them as the flagship. Although several features were revealed at the event, after a quick trial, here is something we encountered first-hand on the AORUS 17 that is worth sharing with our fans.

At CES 2022, GIGABYTE introduced the latest member of the AERO family—the AERO 16. It certainly is a shining star of the family, thanks to its splendid looks and gorgeous design. Now, we have something to further delight our fans after their preview of the new star at its launch.

Due to safe social distancing, more people find themselves at home, devoting their free time to PC gaming. In the past, people preferred to only play PC games only on desktop PCs due to their more-powerful performance. However, with the breakthrough of silicon tech, laptops can now deliver a similar high-end performance which can run AAA titles for a smooth gaming experience. Nowadays, gaming laptops are commonly used for both work and play and are a perfect match for handling any type of environment.

A “Creator Laptop” is a laptop designed primarily to benefit heavy-duty content creation tasks. With the popularity of smartphones and online video streaming services, the demand for high-quality content is also getting stronger. In recent years, more and more people are devoting themselves to content creation on a personal and professional level.

However, when facing the demands of high-quality content creation tasks, the typical laptop simply cannot fit the needs of these creators, therefore the category of creator laptop was introduced, promising better efficiency overall for their demands.

This is a problem a lot of people will encounter while selecting which laptop to buy. CPU stands for “Central Processing Unit”, and works just like the human brain, processing all data calculations inside the laptop. The right CPU selection will mean you’ve already gotten half of an ideal laptop’s hardware with the rest being a  different look, I/O, or any other additional functions. So if you want to choose a laptop that could fit your needs, you need to know how to check the CPU of a laptop.

Well it’s that time of year again. Christmas trees are being decorated, letters are being swiftly delivered to Santa, and gamers around the world are impatiently waiting to hang their stockings to see what gaming goodies will be left on Christmas Eve night.

Santa’s Elves are working overtime to make sure that this year's Christmas goes off without a hitch and bring some Christmas cheer to those clacking away at their mechanical keyboards and trying to out-snipe their rivals in Call of Duty and Battlefield 2042.

But what are you doing for your fellow gaming brothers and sisters, new and old friends this Christmas? What do you get the gamer that possibly has everything?

Well, to help with this dilemma, our own helper elves have put together this Gamers Gift Guide to help take the worry out of what to gift your fellow gamer this year.

We all love it when major product and technology updates are launched. We start thinking about what great new PC builds we can put together and start dreaming of huge FPS numbers in games, sometimes however it can be hard to know whether you should take the plunge or not.

With the launch of Intel’s 12th generation Alder Lake CPUs and Z690, it brings with it a whole lot of performance enhancements and a slew of new features which includes DDR5 and PCIe 5.0, but what exactly are these? What does it mean to gamers and is it worth the upgrade?

Well, we hope to answer some of these questions for you today and shed a little light on exactly what DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 is.
 

VisionLINK is an exclusive port designed by GIGABYTE. You can find it on AERO series motherboards, which are built for creators. It can handle data transfer, video output and 60W of power delivery. It allows creators to connect their pro-grade WACOM pen display with just a single USB Type-C cable. The advanced version of VisionLINK—VisionLINK TB—even integrates Thunderbolt to make it more versatile. Let’s dive deeper into this exclusive port to see why it’s the best one for creators.

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Intel has launched the latest 12th-Gen processors ‘Alder Lake’, and everyone is curious about its performance. So, today we are going to show you the benchmark of the Alder Lake processors under daily tasks, content creation, and gaming.

For gamers there is few things more exciting than major computer hardware releases. The thought of upgrading your current gaming rig to the latest and greatest or building a brand-new gaming PC from scratch is enough to have any loyal PC gamer reaching into their wallets.
With the upcoming release of Intel’s Alder Lake 12th Gen CPUs, so also does the release of the newest motherboards. But what exactly are these new motherboards all about, and why should you choose to make the move to the newest Z690 offerings?
Well, let’s take a look at the things that you need to be aware of when buying a Z690 motherboard and see why now is the perfect time to be thinking of an upgrade.

Packing up to 16 cores and 24 threads, the latest Intel 12th-Gen processors promise a significant leap in both single-core and multi-core performances, a major selling point for those looking to adopt the new Alder Lake platform. However, there are some caveats. If you pair the new chip with just any motherboard, the actual performance might not be as great as expected. In this article, we will highlight some of the features you may overlook regarding the Intel 12th-Gen processors and how to pick a motherboard so that you will be able to receive the best performance from the new CPU.