The $200 price point is not where we usually expect to find budget motherboards, but this is apparently the cost of moving to a DDR5-only platform. At ...

1. Buying a Power Supply With Lower Wattage Than Its Actual Wattage Buying a power supply might be one of the trickiest. One of the confusing things about ...

Early 2023 might not be the best time ever to look for a GPU under $500, as new upper mid-range cards from AMD and Nvidia are due to arrive later this year. ...

As of March 2023, entry-level GPUs are once again widely available at reasonable price levels. Also, Intel is now actively competing with AMD and Nvidia, which ...

Over the past decades of PC hardware evolution, no other upgrade has dramatically improved the overall user experience as much as the shift from hard drives to ...

Faster storage will speed up most of your PC activities to some extent – from booting up your OS to loading apps and games. But not all SSDs are created equal. ...

Although prices are still a bit higher than we would prefer, the gaming graphics card market has definitely made a U-turn for the better since last year. ...

Windows 11's virtualization-based security (VBS) features caused quite a stir back in 2021 when it was revealed that they could significantly reduce ...

Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs offer a great deal of performance for the money, but this comes at the cost of high power consumption and heat. Even if you are not ...

For over a decade, Samsung has been among the leaders (if not the outright leader) in the consumer SSD space. In recent years, however, Samsung's flagship SSDs ...

How does a DRAM-equipped M.2 SSD from the PCI-Express 3.0 generation compare with DRAM-less budget alternatives in 2023? This is an interesting question when ...

Building a high-end gaming PC that is totally silent under load is basically impossible, as that would involve performance compromises that most gamers are ...