Gift Guide
A solid state drive is often the most important component for making a PC feel fast and responsive; any PC still using a mechanical hard drive as its primary storage is long overdue for an upgrade. The SSD market is broader than ever, with a wide range prices, performance and form factors. This may be a bad time to try to buy a new GPU or CPU, but the consumer SSD market isn't suffering from any shortages. SSD prices have mostly leveled out for the moment, though some prices continue to creep downwards. Most of the interesting recent activity has been in the high-end segment, where there is now stiff competition among top of the line PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and an increasing number of QLC-based...
Best CPUs for Gaming: February 2021
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
94 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/3/2021
Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2020
Continuing our run of holiday buyers' guides, today we're taking a look at peripherals. Considering that a PC’s peripherals can easily outlive the main system’s components and usually stay...
50 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/9/2020
Best Android Phones: November 2020
As winter is approaching and we’re a few days away from Thanksgiving, we haven’t seen too much news in the smartphone space in these latter months of the year...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/23/2020
Best Laptops: Holiday 2020
It's time for our holiday look at the laptop market, and what a year 2020 has been in the laptop space. After starting out with a large number of...
24 by Brett Howse on 11/20/2020
Best Video Cards for Gaming: Q1 2019
For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the...
20 by Nate Oh on 3/11/2019
Best CPUs for Gaming: Holiday 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
0 by Ian Cutress on 10/24/2018
Best Tablets: Q1 2017
Unlike the red-hot smartphone market that continues to grow, with new models appearing at a blistering rate, the tablet market is, well….a little boring. Apple still releases a few...
30 by Matt Humrick on 3/31/2017
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2016
It’s been about a year since our last look at gaming laptops, and the one major change over last year is the launch of the 16 nm FinFET GPUs...
44 by Brett Howse on 12/19/2016
Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2016
For today's holiday buyers' guide we are having a look at power supplies. Once again, I shall begin with discussing and clarifying a common misconception among users, that a...
63 by E. Fylladitakis on 11/30/2016
Best NASes: Q1 2016
Network-attached storage vendors do not usually follow a regular yearly cadence in updating their offerings. Releases for different market segments are spread throughout the year. That said, thanks to...
26 by Ganesh T S on 3/30/2016
Best Convertible Laptops: Holiday 2015
For our final segment on notebooks, we will take a look at convertibles. We’ve already covered standard notebooks, as well as gaming laptops. This final installment will focus on...
25 by Brett Howse on 11/30/2015
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2015
Welcome to part two of our best laptop guide for 2015. The first part was traditional notebooks, this installment will focus on gaming notebooks, and our final piece will...
31 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2015
Best CPUs: Q1 2016
When building a custom PC, especially on the consumer side, the processor is typically second or third down the list of priorities, behind graphics, storage or specific motherboard features...
17 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015
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