The Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 is a typical workstation affair. It’s fairly potent but big, bulky, and pricey. Next to consumer laptops, its performance doesn’t impress, and new Panther Lake hardware ...

Replace paid software with these free alternatives. We review LibreOffice, Jellyfin, OBS, HandBrake, and VLC to see how they ...

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Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Video transcoding is one of the most demanding real-world workloads for any processor, and HandBrake remains a perfect tool to measure it. In this test, we take a 1080p DTS movie trailer and encode it ...

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.

We came across the Skytech O11 Vision gaming PC on Amazon, and it has a decent 11% off its asking price of $2,199.99. So, you can get your hands on it for $1,949.99, and we think this is a decent ...

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Using windows, you have the option to right click files and select from a few specialized options. One option that would be really nice, would be encode with Handbrake. When this is done, it should ...

When I try to encode with Handbrake nightly via QSV AV1 (8 or 10 bit), Handbrake crashes. This doesn't happen in HB 1.9.2. QSV HEVC works, but unfortunately, QSV AV1 doesn't. Activity Log, Crash Log ...

Blu-ray Discs were developed to hold high-definition video and store large data. They can easily bring you a fantastic video and audio playback experience in your home theater. However, there are ...

The Cooler Master Hyper 212 is a 120mm air cooler from, well Cooler Master. It is one of the more popular air coolers on the market thanks to its affordability. We have put this CPU through its paces ...