After we spent years looking at televisions, smartphones, and even laptops with envy, OLED panels are finally starting to show up on desktop monitor panels. Well, they are if you have a lot of disposable…
Between new entries on the low end and competition heating up on the high end, it’s a good time to be in the market for a graphics card upgrade. (Not as good a time as…
High dynamic range can add a new dimension of color and immersion to PC gaming, but only if both the hardware and software actually support it. The latter is becoming a lot more common —…
Mechanical keyboards have been around almost as long as personal computers, and the basic switch technology we’re still using first popped up in the 1980s. But it’s not an exaggeration to say that mechanical boards…
It doesn’t use a 25-pound block of solid copper, but a variant of the brand new 6GB version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 budget card can make do without an active cooling system just the same.…
Way back when the world was new, and “ray tracing” was something that only happened in oceanographic illustrations, you needed a wired keyboard to play PC games. Otherwise the old-fashioned wireless connections could lag or…
Graphics cards are too expensive. I don’t think anyone would seriously disagree with me there — to get the same level of performance relative to where the industry was ten years ago, you’re looking at…
It’s been a little over a year since Gordon went head-to-head with Brian Troh of BPSCustoms to talk about whether or not performance matters in PC building and gaming. Obviously that’s a loaded question (hey,…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent software customization Great controls for analog input Easy layout swapping Cons Expensive Typing is loud and wobbly Hard wrist rest Our Verdict The Hunstman V3 is the keyboard…
One of the coolest features of Valve’s Steam Deck is how it’s built to make its compact internal hardware accessible to the user, something that PC gamers can appreciate. For example, if you want to…