Tag: hardware

OLED burn-in anxiety will ruin my sanity long before it ruins my monitor

OLED burn-in anxiety will…

After a year of agonizing over passing sales and jealous gazes at better setups, I finally did it. I…
ThunderX3 Solo 360 review

ThunderX3 Solo 360 review

A reasonable price, something actually comfortable, a range of adjustability options, a small-ish box and an easy build. When…
Best graphics cards in 2025: I’ve tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today’s top cards

Best graphics cards in…

I don’t remember a time when picking the best graphics card was such a tough decision. In previous years…
Best gaming laptop in 2025: I’ve put the best of this new generation head-to-head and we have a winner

Best gaming laptop in…

The best gaming laptops in 2025 can finally be the do-anything notebooks we’ve always wanted them to be. As…
Best gaming chair in 2025: I’ve tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I’d suggest for any PC gamer

Best gaming chair in…

The PC Gamer team and I have spent many a long day parking our posteriors on the finest seats…
Microsoft’s update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy

Microsoft’s update for Direct3D,…

When it comes to games on PCs, there’s one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics…
Phanteks XT V3 case review

Phanteks XT V3 case…

I bloody love the Phanteks XT V3. There’s just something about it that resonates with me. Small form factor…
I don’t need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks

I don’t need 64…

RAM manufacturers try their best to keep prices high for their latest memory chips, but alas, price trends have…
Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career

Picking the best GPU…

I love graphics cards. They’re absolutely my favourite PC component. That’s not a hot take; I’m a simple man…
OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I’ve got some great early Prime Day deals for you

OLED is the must-have…

Resistance is futile, the change is already upon us. OLED is taking over the gaming monitor market, and for…