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!
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!
Since its launch many years ago, the Athlon 200GE was the refuge of the tired, the hungry, the poor and oppressed. For a tiny fee of about $55, you would get a decent-ish CPU that had a decent-ish iGPU within. All you had to do next was find a very cheap motherboard to house […]
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.
What a fantastic month it has been, with so much new hardware available! But what is this? It is Intel, who decided to add even more spice with their new Raptor Lake launch! Woohoo! Potential CPU buyers had already had their options improved when AMD launched Zen 4 earlier this month, and from Intel’s timing, […]
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 […]
We are going to skip the big long AMD history lesson for this one, but if you have hours to spare and want to read about that: We watched the birth of weak-sauce Zen 1. We saw how it grew much stronger in Zen 2. Then it overtook Intel with the excellent Zen 3. But […]
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: