The Pentium is back, baby. The Kaby Lake Pentium G4560 is the new king of budget gaming CPUs. The G4560, and big brothers G4600 and G4620, offer gaming performance similar to CPUs costing hundreds more. I put together a maximum performance for value $500 build, pairing the G4560 with the powerful RX 480. This build […]
Posts in Category: pc hardware
How to Choose the Right Power Supply
- Mike Howell
- 27th Jan 2017
- How-To
By far the most overlooked component in new builds is the power supply unit, or PSU. Ironically, it’s one of the most important. Your power supply will be pumping the lifeblood of precious volts to each and every electronic part in your fancy new computer. A catastrophic failure of a power supply can fry every […]
Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs Launch, Adding to Logical Increments
- The Falcon
- 3rd Jan 2017
- Logical Increments Updates
Kaby Lake is the first CPU series under Intel’s new Tick-Tock-Tack strategy (a.k.a Process, Architecture, Optimization). Previously, Intel would shrink it’s last generation’s CPU (a Tick), and then introduce a new microarchitecture at that size in the next generation (a Tock). Now Intel shrinks a CPU (Tick), makes a new microarchitecture (Tock), then “optimizes” it. What does […]
RX 470 vs. GTX 1050 Ti: Which Graphics Card is a Better Deal?
- fore1gn
- 2nd Jan 2017
- PC Hardware
You’re in the market for a new GPU and want to spend less than $200. In that case, the main choices would be the GTX 1050 Ti (~$140) from NVIDIA and the RX 470 (~$170) from AMD. Given the differences in price and performance, which of these mid-range graphics cards is the better deal?
The Teeny Tiny Monstrous Update
- The Falcon
- 8th Dec 2016
- Logical Increments Updates
We’ve made a minor update that disrupts our entire list of PC parts recommendations: The Monstrous tier (our most powerful, most expensive tier) is now more Monstrous.
What PC is Equivalent to the PS4 or Xbox One?
- The Falcon
- 3rd Dec 2016
- PC Hardware
Readers often ask us some variation of the following questions: What PC would be equivalent to the PS4 / Xbox One? Can you really build an equivalent PC for the same price as a console? This is a great question, and one that we are happy to answer.
Amazon’s PC Hardware Cyber Monday Deals
- The Falcon
- 27th Nov 2016
- Hardware Sales
Amazon has a few nice deals on its PC components for Cyber Monday. To be totally honest, Amazon has some amazing deals, but most of them are not related to PC parts, so we are sad. If you know of any good deals that we missed, let us know in the comments section! Please note: […]
Black Friday 2016: Best of Newegg’s Black Friday Week Sales
- The Falcon
- 23rd Nov 2016
- Hardware Sales
Ladies and gentlemen, it has begun! We’ve have been waiting a year for Black Friday sales, and Newegg’s current Black Friday deals are great! These sale prices are guaranteed to be the best prices on these parts through Black Friday, which means you can safely buy them now without worrying about a better deal showing […]
The (Somewhat Sad) Good and Very Good CPU Update
- The Falcon
- 13th Nov 2016
- Logical Increments Updates
The day has come for even more AMD CPUs to be removed from our PC parts guide, to be replaced with Core i3 alternatives. We do not want to see AMD represented less and less on our guide, but we have no choice until they have a new release. Our Good and Very Good tiers have been updated to recommend […]
GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Launched, Added to Logical Increments
- The Falcon
- 26th Oct 2016
- Logical Increments Updates
The GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti have both launched. This is not an “exciting” launch where a new $150 card beats last year’s $500 card, but it is a good launch nonetheless. NVIDIA has new $110 and $150 cards, and they both perform well for their respective price points.