The months roll by slow, without relief. The price of hardware beggars belief. The weather is bleak, the thoughts are black; Ah! When will the old days come back? How have you been, dear reader? Have you needed to purchase a non-GPU, non-RAM, and non-SSD piece of hardware recently? That is good, for the prices […]
Starting late last year, and accelerating greatly this year, the RAMpocalypse has been unrelenting in its pressure on RAM. Not only are prices for RAM up by 500% (yes, five hundred, no typo), but all RAM capacity has been sold for all of 2026 AND 2027! Ah, the ceaseless joy of waking up to this […]
In the beginning, the article was without sources, and void. But the sun rose upon the sleeping Intel fans, and hope stirred once more within their souls. The editor’s mouse shifted, links were copied and pasted, as shown below: TechPowerUp Ultra 5 250K Plus Review TechPowerUp Ultra 7 270K Plus Review Indeed, after years and […]
In one form or another, the Logical Increments PC Buying Guide has existed for approximately 17 years now, which is quite a span. During this time, we have maintained a policy of never venturing outside the very strict scope of the guide: Consumer PC hardware. The only times that this rule was broken was when […]
Black Friday 2025 is over. Come back next year for 2026 Black Friday Deals! In the meantime, check out what we recommend at current prices: Logical Increments Builds
Yes! Yes! Black Friday is almost here, the day every PC builder waits for all year round. This year’s Black Friday should bring us some relief from the very topsy-turvy prices we have been seeing, since Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) sales are typically the best prices you see all year round. We have not […]
Hard Disk Drives! You know them, you have had them (probably), and now you are going to say goodbye to them. Ah, poor old HDDs! They served us, and served us well for decades, but today…
That is a lot of new cards launched recently! The RTX 5050, the RTX 5060, two versions of the RTX 5060 Ti, and two versions of the RX 9060 XT! Instead of checking each one out separately, let us take a look at them all in one fell swoop, with an eye toward deciding where/if […]
For the last 14 years, a high-end Noctua CPU cooler has always crowned the list of air coolers in our list. The NH-D14 and NH-D15 were both excellent, and each was the best air cooler when it was launched. Yes, the unfathomable colour combination of chocolate and “beige” (closer to light pink-brown off-white) made them […]
A few weeks ago, AMD launched two new processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D. How do they fare, and will we recommend them in our PC build chart? Let us find out. The R9 9950X3D is a $700 16-core CPU, with the “3D” denoting extra cache. The R9 9900X3D is a $600 […]