Jarred Walton
Jarred's love of computers dates back to the dark ages when his dad brought home a DOS 2.3 PC and he left his C-64 behind. He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander was released a few months later. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.
Latest articles by Jarred Walton
How to unlock your framerate in Fallout 76
By Jarred Walton last updated
Free Frames You'll need to manually change this important setting to get a better Fallout 76 experience.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X review
By Jarred Walton last updated
Octo-cpus Building a better mainstream 8-core chip.
Should I use a TV as a computer monitor?
By Alan Dexter published
Ask PC Gamer You don't have to limit your PC gaming to a desk.
What is micro stutter and how do I fix it?
By Jarred Walton, Alan Dexter published
Ask PCG Looking at the causes and solutions for frame pacing problems.
Control remains one of the best showcases for ray tracing
By Jarred Walton, James Archer published
RTX On And even without ray tracing enabled, you'll need a pretty beefy graphics card for higher settings and resolutions.
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB review
By Jarred Walton published
Navi 14 AMD's Radeon RX 5500 XT is available in 4GB and 8GB trim, but is the extra memory worth the added cost?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition review
By Jarred Walton published
Gold Mine The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the new king of the sandpile, at an exorbitant price that's hard to justify.
The best CPU for gaming
By Alice Newcome-Beill, Jarred Walton published
Unlocked, ready to rock Here are the best CPUs for gaming to gas up your rig.
Best graphics cards
By Jorge Jimenez, Jarred Walton published
Pixel Power These are the best graphics cards to slot into your gaming PC, right now.
The best SSD for gaming
By Alice Newcome-Beill, Alan Bradley, Jarred Walton published
SSDs Get one of the best SSDs for gaming and do away with spinning platters for good.
Zombie Army 4: Dead War benchmarks, settings, and performance analysis
By Jarred Walton published
Performance Analysis Pretty much any PC built in the last five years can run this game.
GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service Stadia should be
By Joanna Nelius, Jarred Walton published
Strato-fied GeForce Now costs less, works with more games, has a free tier, and you don't need to buy any equipment to use it.
Best Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 deals of 2020
By Jarred Walton published
2070 Deals Discover ray tracing bandwagon, be like one of the cool kids for less, with the best Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 deals.
AMD vs Intel: Who makes the better CPU?
By Jarred Walton published
Core Wars AMD vs Intel CPUs: Performance, features, and everything else you need to know about which CPU is best for you.
AMD's last minute 5600 XT BIOS update feels like a 'bait and switch'
By Jarred Walton published
Tech Talk Will the real RX 5600 XT please stand up?
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT review
By Jarred Walton published
Shake it up AMD's RX 5600 XT shakes up the mid-range market with good performance for under $300.
When will PC hardware get exciting again?
By Joanna Nelius, Jarred Walton, Jorge Jimenez published
CE-Guess With CES now behind us, we reflect on the show itself and where PC hardware will go from here.
I rode in a self-driving car that's basically powered by a high-end gaming PC
By Jarred Walton published
Hands Free The 20 minute ride included plenty of traffic, and the 'safety engineer' didn't touch the controls once.
The best of CES 2020
By Jorge Jimenez, Joanna Nelius, Jarred Walton published
The envelope, please There was a lot to see at CES, but here's what stood out the most.
I took a test drive with Intel's DG1 discrete graphics card and wasn't impressed
By Jarred Walton published
Hands on Intel's Xe Graphics performance needs to improve a lot between now and launch.
Intel says its next-gen laptop CPUs double the graphics performance of 10th Gen processors
By Jarred Walton published
CES 2020 Intel also gave a sneak peek of DG1, its first discrete graphics card using Xe Graphics.
Intel is throwing shade at AMD CPUs again
By Jarred Walton published
CPU Wars Performance for the 'real world,' backed by cherry picked benchmarks.
What PC gamers can expect from CES 2020 next week
By Joanna Nelius, Jarred Walton published
Crystal Ball A preview of the upcoming tech we expect to see in 2020.
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