M.2 SATA, M.2 NVME, SSD, HDD—if any of those abbreviations make your head spin faster than a hard drive platter, look no further. This article outlines the different storage options on the market today, highlighting the best use-cases for each and recommending the best product in every class. Upgrading an older storage drive to an […]
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Building a PC with the GTX 1660
- Chris Cunningham
- 21st Mar 2019
- PC Builds
Just when you thought new releases from NVIDIA could not get any weirder, they go and announce the GTX 1660 to the world. With their first push into mid-tier-priced cards in years, we take a look at creating a balanced PC with the GTX 1660!
Building a PC with the GTX 1660 Ti
- Lauren Taylor
- 12th Mar 2019
- PC Builds
NVIDIA’s newly-released GTX 1660 Ti behaves almost like a new and improved GTX 1070. It comes with the new Turing architecture found in the RTX series, but without the ray-tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling technology; these premium features are still in the early stages of adoption, and aren’t useful or economical for a mid-tier […]
Building a PC for Apex Legends
PLEASE NOTE: We now have a thorough, regularly updated big guide article on building a PC for Apex Legends over on our main site. Check it out! Now that you have read our warning, you may return to the content of this older blog post: Apex Legends, the free-to-play battle royale title from the creators […]
Building a PC with Christmas Holiday 2018 Deals
Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be over, but the good deals on components keep coming—if you know where to look. We’ve scoured sales from several retailers to find two builds that provide great price-to-performance ratios.
How to Upgrade an Older PC
- Nigel Delmore
- 30th Nov 2018
- How-To
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 […]
5 Tips for Building a Quiet PC
- 526christian
- 10th Nov 2018
- How-To
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 […]
Building a PC with the AMD Threadripper 2950X
- Chris Cunningham
- 31st Aug 2018
- PC Builds
With the launch of the 2nd-generation Threadripper 2950X, we of course had to look at what would make a balanced PC with this 16-core beast!
The nVidia RTX Family (Non-)Update
- The Falcon
- 21st Aug 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
I hope you did not miss nVidia’s conference yesterday! Lots of tech/game demos were shown, and lots and LOTS of fancy words (two hours worth) were used to tell us that nVidia is launching the new RTX series of cards.
Building a PC with the AMD Threadripper 2990WX
- Chris Cunningham
- 20th Aug 2018
- PC Builds
AMD are coming out swinging, and they’re out for Intel’s blood with the flagship Threadripper 2990WX! With a bonkers 32 cores and 64 threads, this is not a CPU for the casual gamer; it’s a workstation powerhouse, designed for when multi-core performance is king.