Latest articles by Chris Szewczyk
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best graphics cards in 2025: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
Best webcams in 2025: the 1080p and 4K webcams I recommend for gamers and streamers
Look Your Best These are the best webcams for streaming and video calls.
Best air cooler for CPUs in 2025: keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers
Air dried Quiet, reliable and affordable—why wouldn't you consider a CPU air cooler in 2025?
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks
Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.
Best gaming motherboards: these are the mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Best RAM for gaming: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.
Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won't have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors
News Oh, and a reminder to update your BIOS if you're running a 13th or 14th Gen chip.
If you're gaming with a Zen 5 system, you'll bag some major performance gains from the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update
News If only it came out a month or so ago...
Gamers hoping to build a Ryzen 9000-series system with an affordable B850 motherboard are set for a long wait
News B650 motherboards are going to be around for some time yet.
MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels
News Up to 225W from the board alone, with god knows how much extra from GPU mounted connectors.
Asus unveils its X870/X870E motherboard lineup at Gamescom 2024 and they look pretty darn good
News The feature sets are rich, and the prices likely are too.
US lawmakers believe TP-Link networking products come with an 'unusual degree of vulnerabilities' leaving them vulnerable to hackers
News The members expressed national security concerns.
MSI's PBO Enhanced Modes take Ryzen 9000 series chips off the leash, giving you up to 15% extra performance
News That's more like it.
AMD Zen 5 architecture: A ground up redesign that lays the foundation for future Ryzen CPU architectures
AMD is confident a 16% IPC uplift will see its Ryzen 9000-series ascend the CPU silicon throne.
Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi motherboard review
power packed Big on features, but not on size.
AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D-series chips reportedly gain full overclocking support, meaning simple tweaks would make them the all-round chips we always wished for
News Cache AND clock speed.
Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WiFi review
fully loaded Asus proves it really is possible to load up a Mini-ITX board with lots of goodies.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is so good at gaming, AMD might give more juice to the Ryzen 7 9700X in order to beat it
News Scotty, we need more power.
Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'
News It can deliver 4Tbps of bandwidth from 100m away.
