Yes! Yes! Black Friday is almost here, the day every PC builder waits for all year round. This year’s Black Friday should bring us some relief from the very topsy-turvy prices we have been seeing, since Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) sales are typically the best prices you see all year round. We have not […]
Hard Disk Drives! You know them, you have had them (probably), and now you are going to say goodbye to them. Ah, poor old HDDs! They served us, and served us well for decades, but today…
That is a lot of new cards launched recently! The RTX 5050, the RTX 5060, two versions of the RTX 5060 Ti, and two versions of the RX 9060 XT! Instead of checking each one out separately, let us take a look at them all in one fell swoop, with an eye toward deciding where/if […]
For the last 14 years, a high-end Noctua CPU cooler has always crowned the list of air coolers in our list. The NH-D14 and NH-D15 were both excellent, and each was the best air cooler when it was launched. Yes, the unfathomable colour combination of chocolate and “beige” (closer to light pink-brown off-white) made them […]
A few weeks ago, AMD launched two new processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D. How do they fare, and will we recommend them in our PC build chart? Let us find out. The R9 9950X3D is a $700 16-core CPU, with the “3D” denoting extra cache. The R9 9900X3D is a $600 […]
nVidia has very recently launched 2 new cards, the RTX 5070 ($550) and the RTX 5070 Ti ($750). This is a standard nVidia launch, so if you want the tl;dr: Good cards, overpriced. For more details (and how we’ll be changing our chart), read on…
Intel has recently released two new graphics cards, the Arc B570 and Arc B580, both targeting the mid-range tiers. How do they fare? Do they belong in our chart?
Tell me, how rich are you? If you are rich, then we can be friends. If you are very very rich, I would like to upgrade you to my best friend, and tell you about nVidia’s two newly released hyper-overpriced graphics cards, the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. …let us take a closer look:
CPUs are a duopoly. While some alternatives to AMD and Intel technically exist, their market share is so tiny that they do not appear on some statistics tracking pages. It is for this reason that we rarely talk about only Intel or only AMD. We instead compare them to one another, as they are both […]
It has been a while, but here we are with AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series launched and ready for purchase! AMD’s new CPU series starts with a serious set of excellent high-end CPUs. We are not going to analyze all of them individually in this post, but as a quick summary: Ryzen 5 9600X: 6 cores […]