Greetings. This article was painful to write. Every section hurt, and every section gets progressively more painful. But the truth can hurt, so read on. The consumer PC world is headed down a bad path: There is a major focus by PC part manufacturers to produce extremely expensive and overpowered products, with the mid-tiers and […]
The majority of PC part launches from established companies are successes, as professionals usually try to design good products for the purpose of attracting customers. From time to time, however, the human beings at such companies make mistakes, or go overboard on the alcohol, or let the engineers dream a little too much. The past […]
Rumours of an Intel entry into the graphics card market have been circulating for years, and many people had eagerly anticipated the arrival of a third player to the discrete GPU space. Well, it happened. A few days ago, Intel released the Arc A750 and Arc A770 cards. Let us take a look at the […]
Can you feel it? The change for PC builders, not very subtle, happening even as I type these words? The clouds have lifted. The sun is shining. The news is good. It is as follows:
Air cooling versus liquid cooling is a debate as old as time. Indeed, even the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago often argued deep in the forests of Pangaea whether air or liquid is the superior form of CPU cooling. With their methods of record-keeping lost to time, sadly we may never know the […]
Consumer VR has only been around for a few years, but that hasn’t stopped it from improving (and sometimes failing) at breakneck speeds. We’ve come a long way from the early days of 2016 VR being limited to expensive, tethered-only HMD’s and room-placed trackers as the only option. Now more than ever, we’re witnessing a […]
AMD has stayed surprisingly silent over the months since Intel kicked off their 12th generation, letting loose a full series of beefy Intel consumer-grade CPUs. Little is known about the secretive Ryzen 7000 series of processors, AMD’s next CPU lineup, but a few morsels of information have been released so far that give us a […]
CES 2022 has come and gone. And with it being the first in-person CES after an online-only hiatus (with a new Covid-19 strain, at that), it is not surprising to say that CES had a rocky year, presentation-wise. Lots of issues cropped up, including everything from big tech companies canceling their attendance to the entire […]
You want to get the best GPU for your money. That’s natural, because your graphics card is probably expensive, and you want your money to be well-spent. But how do you know what to look for? What GPU specs should you look at? What do the numbers mean? In this article, I will explain what […]
Ever since Intel won every race in the universe with the launch of Sandy Bridge back in 2011, they have been slacking. AMD’s tortoise needed six long years, but it overtook the sleeping Intel hare in 2017, leaving behind a lot of room for jokes at Intel’s expense. But Intel, like all other large tech […]
