The months roll by slow, without relief. The price of hardware beggars belief. The weather is bleak, the thoughts are black; Ah! When will the old days come back? How have you been, dear reader? Have you needed to purchase a non-GPU, non-RAM, and non-SSD piece of hardware recently? That is good, for the prices […]
Starting late last year, and accelerating greatly this year, the RAMpocalypse has been unrelenting in its pressure on RAM. Not only are prices for RAM up by 500% (yes, five hundred, no typo), but all RAM capacity has been sold for all of 2026 AND 2027! Ah, the ceaseless joy of waking up to this […]
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 […]
January brought a lot of CPU options to our attention from AMD and Intel, and as a result we’ve made a whole host of changes to the processor column of our main chart!
Between the addition of cameras to smartphones and the rise of image-centric social media sites like Instagram, photography has only become more and more popular over the past couple decades. This has also meant a lot more interest in image editing and adjusting. When it comes to software for image editing, it’s Adobe Photoshop that […]
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 […]
Newegg’s 2020 Black Friday Week sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Black Friday Week 2020 deals from Newegg. The year 2020 has been very turbulent, and many people are working from home these days. For those of us wanting to upgrade our PCs (or buy completely new ones), Black Friday and Cyber […]
Prices for various PC parts often have a huge range, depending on items quality, performance, and availability. Some CPUs are $100, some are $1000, and some cannot be bought for love or money. Some other items have a much smaller range of prices, and this can be seen when we look at PC memory and […]
If you missed the nVidia Ampere reveal, you can read a recap here. Ampere, like nVidia’s previous ~2-3 generations of chips, should be really good. Just… be sure to stay realistic and not to get your hopes up too high, or believe too deeply in marketing material. Every modern product launch promises to dramatically alter […]
We’ve got a small update here for the main chart, pertaining to our RAM and CPU recommendations.
