AMD has released two new graphics cards, the RX 7800 XT ($500) and the RX 7700 XT ($450). One is decently good, and the other is… standard for AMD launches.
AMD has released two new graphics cards, the RX 7800 XT ($500) and the RX 7700 XT ($450). One is decently good, and the other is… standard for AMD launches.
There have not been that many major releases recently, so this will be a small update that mostly includes items we are not adding to our chart. And before we get to those items: All three non-added items are due to bad pricing. They are great items if they were cheaper, but we at […]
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 […]
This is a double update: one CPU, one GPU. Let us begin with the section that contains (on balance) good news for PC builders!
In the midst of a festive season, we bring tidings of good graphical cheer to some of the highest tiers of our main PC building chart! New GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia are now making an appearance, and causing some accompanying changes for older graphics cards.
Behold, friends-with-big-wallets: the biggest, heaviest, most expensive, most power-consuming, and *drumroll* best-performing card ever made! Let us take a closer look.
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:
At last! All modern GPUs are available for purchase, new, for MSRP. No more crying as you pay 2x or 3x the recommended price for a card. No more heartbreak as you buy a used card that has been sitting in a crypto farm for 2 years. No more sad checking on crypto prices, hoping […]