After spending the last several generations playing it safe and letting AMD enjoy the CPU spotlight, Intel finally decided to provide a more robust competition with their recent 12th-generation Alder Lake chips. New DDR5 RAM support, much smaller lithography, and lots more cores await to provide plenty of gaming and multitasking performance this holiday season. […]
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Building a Quiet Gaming PC with the Intel i7-12700K
With Intel releasing their new 12th-generation chips into a market still saturated with scalpers peddling $2000 GPUs, it’s fair to say that most people interested in this new hardware are looking to upgrade just their CPU (and motherboard) rather than putting together an entirely new build. But it’s a lot easier to conceptualize what […]
Steam Deck Specifications – Comparing Valve’s Deck to PC Gaming Hardware
Valve has released the Steam Deck specifications, and they have spawned a storm of excitement. Essentially, the Steam Deck is a handheld gaming PC built around SteamOS. The Steam Deck is poised to be a fairly unique product, looking like a hybrid of a handheld console like the Switch and a conventional desktop PC (like […]
The Steam Deck vs Valve’s Top 10 Games
How well does Valve’s new Steam Deck hold up against Steam’s own library? The announcement of the Steam Deck in July 2021 introduced Valve’s latest excursion into the complex world of gaming hardware. No doubt inspired by Nintendo’s success with the Switch console, the Steam Deck aims to let you take your entire Steam […]
The 5 Best Gaming Laptops in 2021
After the past year, it really is a different world out there. So it should come as no surprise that the old, time-tested PC Shopping Wisdom doesn’t really apply today like it did even a few years ago. Gaming laptops? A good deal? Arguably, yes, they are now. Lack of component availability due to chip […]
Top 5 Prebuilt Computers for Gaming in 2021
With the GPU shortages continuing, some people are turning to prebuilt computers. These are pre-assembled PCs, usually sold at a slightly elevated price over buying the parts separately; thus, building your system yourself would normally be cheaper. However, prebuilt prices have generally not increased as much as GPU prices have, and because of that prebuilt […]
10 Recommended Mechanical Keyboards for 2021
As the primary point of physical contact between you and your desktop, your keyboard can make or break your PC gaming experience. With different form factors, switch types, and extra features, it can be difficult to find the right one for you. This list briefly looks at ten recommended mechanical gaming keyboards in five categories […]
Building a Gaming PC with the i7-11700K
Intel recently launched a new lineup of chips, and one of them was the i7-11700K, an 8 core/16 threaded powerhouse with a boost clock of 5 GHz. With such specifications, this processor runs any game smoothly. As a result of the high core count, it would also be fit for workstation purposes such as video […]
A Quick Rundown on Starlink: Is it Ready for PC Gaming?
- Sameer
- 28th Apr 2021
- Internet Technology
Imagine for a moment: High-speed, low-ping internet costing the same or less than the lowest-tier options provided by your current ISP, regardless of your location. Sounds like an impossible dream, doesn’t it? Must we forever be stuck with a ping of 400 ms? Must the frugal among us always face download speeds that require waiting […]
Strange, Unusual, and Uncommon Mechanical Keyboard Switches
- Jordan
- 14th Apr 2021
- PC Hardware
From beams of light to tiny springs crammed into rubber domes, there’s a handful of mechanical keyboard switches that are hardly ‘mechanical’ at all. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the specs and designs of the most common non-traditional mechanical keyboard switches!