Your computer has faithfully been by your side for all these years. You can’t replace it (for whatever reason), but with Christmas coming up, you decide it’s time to give your little friend a much-deserved gift. Or maybe it’s frustrating you with sluggishness. Either way, you’ve got a great excuse to give it a little […]
RAM Performance Explained: CAS Latency vs Clock Speed (Updated for 2026) Choosing RAM can be daunting, because this decision has a tangible impact on your performance. How many browser tabs can you keep open? How smooth is your video editing timeline? How fast will your game load? All of this is directly affected by your […]
It is not going to be easy to be kind to AMD for this one: The 590 is a refreshed 580, which itself is a refreshed 480.
The market for PC components has been a wild ride in recent years. With the cryptocurrency craze driving component prices through the roof throughout most of 2017 and 2018, PC building took a hit and left enthusiasts seriously considering prebuilts (shudder). But the crypto bubble has popped and other market influences are pushing prices down […]
Whether you sleep near your PC, do something with your PC where it helps to keep noise to a minimum, or just like some peace and quiet, having a PC that isn’t audibly distracting can be important. This list provides five important things to remember when you want to choose parts for a quiet, unobtrusive […]
November 2017 was the last time we updated the GPU descriptions. We compared cards to the Titan XP, and had benchmarks for WoW and Witcher 3. Now that it is November 2018, I have updated the base comparison GPU and the reference games.
AMD has released two new 2nd-generation Threadripper CPUs (the TR 2920X and the TR 2970WX).
There are new high-end CPUs available from Intel, and new low-end CPUs available from AMD. And we’ve taken a look at both!
So, the new RTX 2070 got released last night, to mixed-but-mostly positive reviews.
After much teasing and waiting, the reviews for nVidia’s RTX cards are now available, which means we can finally properly evaluate how the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti stack up against the prior generation.