Graphics cards can get expensive. When you start looking at top contenders, you can easily break the $1000 mark, and well into it. Not everyone has that kind of money for a video card, nor do they necessarily need a workhorse like that. Whether you spend $300, $500, or as much as $1000, you’re still…
You’re just not going to get a top of the line video card in a laptop unless you plan to drop a few thousand dollars on a machine. There might not seem like there’s a good way around that; however, you can actually cheap out on a laptop and still get some good graphical performance…
A square is a rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares. Anyone remember this from basic geometry? Sometimes something that initially looks very different is technically in the same category as something else, but as a very specific subset. This is what we have going on with LCD and LED monitors. LCD stands for Liquid…
Video cards are more important than ever in 2025 — they’re used for just about everything. Gaming, 3D modeling, video editing, and so much more. They can make or break the latest gaming titles, and can be the deciding factor on how quickly or slowly a video renders. If you don’t have a video card…
Congratulations on building your own computer. Perhaps you are looking at getting into the wide world of mining cryptocurrency and you are looking for the best GPUs available to help you earn that (bit)coin as fast as possible. Maybe you are a professional gamer looking to continue to fine tune your machine to ascend the…
If you are like so many of our readers, chances are you are looking to build or upgrade your PC here in 2018. Building has become the current trend as informed, skilled builders can end up with a lot more PC per dollar than picking one up at Best Buy and one of the biggest…
So you want to outfit your system with 4K-capable graphics. You can do that with many of the current video cards out on the market right now, but if you want to save a good chunk of cash, you can still get away with older, but capable technology like the NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti. Even…
The GTX 1070 certainly isn’t a bad video card by any means — in fact, it’s one of the better ones out there that will be able to keep up with many of today’s games. Sure, it might be a couple years old, but the GTX 1070 is still a stout performer. Putting your graphical…
Don’t want to spend too much cash on a video card? The classic saying that “you get what you pay for” always rings true. However, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is a fairly cheap video card that still provides you with excellent Full HD gaming; however, you still need to make sure that you…
Liquid cooling is an amazing innovation, allowing you to use water to cool your components instead of the traditional plastic fan method. Not only can this be more energy efficient, but it allows for better control over fan performance, potentially giving you an almost noiseless system. That said, liquid cooling systems are definitely more expensive,…
So you picked yourself up a new AMD Ryzen 2700 processor, and now you need a way to keep it cool. Traditionally, people use fans that hook up to the motherboard to dissipate heat; however, another excellent way to get rid of heat is through a liquid cooling system. Attach a liquid cooling system to…
So you’re trying to build a PC on a budget. You’ve picked up yourself a Ryzen 3 2300X processor as entry level hardware to get things started; however, you also need to keep in mind that you’re going to need a motherboard to go with that, at least as long as you don’t already have…
Typically when folks buy processors, they buy them a year or two behind releases. This is because newly released processors still have quirks to be worked out — or are sometimes shipped with awful problems — thus the reason why chip manufacturers offer a refreshed version of their processor on a yearly basis until they’re…
Tired of buying pre-built computers that have little to know power available in them, essentially leaving you high and dry in an intense video game or when power matters most in, say, video rendering? Then it’s time to put those pre-built machines to the wayside and build something on your own, something that can handle…
Getting an SSD is one of the best upgrades that you can get for your computer. You will immediately feel the results such as faster boot times as well as faster access of data. Other advantages include better reliability, lower power consumption, as well as low heat dissipation when compared to traditional hard drives. Although…
Keeping your PC in top shape can be a chore but unless you can afford to buy a new one every time one cranks out, you really have no choice but to do something about. For most of us, a computer is not only a tool but also a repository of something more valuable so…