There are all different types of cases on the market — you have massive, full tower cases for workstations, mid-tower cases that are common for gaming setups, compact cases, and then Mid-Tower Case For Gaming PC that are designed to meet the smaller sizes of motherboards, like Mini-ATX and Micro-ITX. With so many cases on…
When you spend a few thousand dollars on a PC, you don’t want to hide all of those beautiful components inside four metal walls. No, you want to show it off to the world — you want to constantly be able to look over and see that beautiful investment. That’s why so many gamers are…
Micro ATX motherboards might not be everyone’s go to style of motherboard, particularly for high end performance setups. However, Micro-ATX motherboards are still reliable in performance setups, just in a smaller profile. If you’re going to go with a Micro-ATX motherboard, that requires smaller parts across the board, particularly when it comes to a computer…
If you’ve heard friends, coworkers, or family members raving about mechanical keyboards, there’s a good reason for that. Mechanical keyboards are better than the traditional membrane-based keyboard in almost every way, Not only do they last longer because of better durability, but they’re more comfortable on the hands. Budget Mechanical keyboard keys typically require more…
Many gamers are all about building their own computers — after all, it’s one of the best ways to get the most value for money out of hardware. Not only that, but this enables you to customize your colors and style in any way that you want. However, not everyone is into building their own…
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…
Virtual reality is a fairly new technology, and it’s one that not everyone can take advantage of — that’s because the hardware requirements — depending on the VR application you’re using — can be pretty high-end. You could easily spend a couple thousand on building a PC that can efficiently handle virtual reality, whether that…
Computer chairs deserve a lot more attention than they get. While most computer users are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a new graphics card or CPU, they’re much less enthusiastic to open their wallets when it comes to buying a new computer chair for long hours However, a computer chair is one of…
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…
Video cards are so important for gaming. They can often make or break the latest titles. If you don’t have a video card new or powerful enough, visuals can look choppy and pixelated, whereas top performing video cards can give games realistic details that you would never see in a low-end video card. Unfortunately, there…
Offering up to 12 simultaneous threads and clock speeds nearing 5 GHz, the new Intel Core i9 processors provide a significant performance boost over the Kaby Lake HQ. So far, there’s only one mobile Intel Core i9 processor, the Core i9-8950HK, but you can already choose from multiple gaming laptops that are equipped with it…
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…