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 He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander was released a few months later.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
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Ryzen 3 2200G is great for extreme budget gaming and HTPC use
By Jarred Walton published
Pinching Pennies Not the fastest kid on the processor block, but it's got heart.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance may be the new heir to the Crysis throne
By Jarred Walton published
Power hungry KCD runs fine on modest hardware, but at max quality you're going to come up short.
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AMD's Ryzen 5 2400G is a good option for a budget gaming PC
By Jarred Walton published
Fusion Power Combining Ryzen CPUs with Vega GPUs in a single convenient package.
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Intel's SSD 760p is an excellent budget NVMe drive
By Jarred Walton published
Chewy good Far better than its predecessor, the 760p series is the best value for fast NVMe storage.
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Samsung's 860 Evo returns to the SATA battle royale
By Jarred Walton published
Super SATA Can the reigning champ come back with another chicken dinner?
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Welcome to 2018, it's time for new AMD Adrenalin drivers
By Jarred Walton published
News AMD's Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 drivers fix several minor issues.
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Intel reveals 0-25 percent performance impact from Meltdown and Spectre patches
By Jarred Walton published
News Testing results come from current generation Skylake servers.
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The weirdest and craziest things we saw at this year's CES
By Jarred Walton, Bo Moore, Tuan Nguyen published
CES 2018 From robots to clones to virtual reality, CES has something for everyone.
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Human cloning stunt was the weirdest thing at this year's CES
By Jarred Walton, Tuan Nguyen published
News CES gets cyberpunk with a very serious fake booth for Netflix's Altered Carbon.
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Mushkin launches a full suite of M.2 SSDs
By Jarred Walton published
News Satisfying your need for high performance storage.
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Even Kodak is getting into cryptocurrency with a spectacularly opportunistic plan
By Jarred Walton, Wes Fenlon published
News KodakCoin, blockchain, and a questionable contract that would have Kodak mining Bitcoin for you after a $3,400 buy-in.
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Edge Memory shows off NextGen M.2 NVMe drive
By Jarred Walton published
News It's a crowded market, but more competition never hurts.
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WD My Cloud NAS vulnerability detailed
By Jarred Walton published
News Make sure to update to the latest firmware ASAP.
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Intel's Core i5-8400 is back in stock (for now)
By Jarred Walton published
News Grab our processor of the year pick while you can.
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Toshiba aims for mainstream pricing with new RC100 NVMe SSDs
By Jarred Walton published
News Better performance than SATA in a smaller package.
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Hang onto your graphics cards, as cryptocurrency mining spikes GPUs prices
By Jarred Walton published
News Record high profitability has depleted GPU inventories again.
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Nvidia announces massive gaming displays for the living room
By Jarred Walton published
News Never bring a knife to a BFGD fight.
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AMD details upcoming 12nm CPUs, Ryzen APUs, and 7nm Vega
By Jarred Walton published
News Firing on all cylinders.
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Intel's 8th Gen G-series processors pack RX Vega M graphics
By Jarred Walton published
Frenemies Merging the best of Intel and AMD into a single package.
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What you need to know about the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits
By Jarred Walton, Tuan Nguyen published
Damage Control The impact could be more far-reaching than any previous exploit.
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Intel responds to security research bug, says no cause for concern
By Jarred Walton published
News Claims this is 'not a bug' and that it will have little impact to the 'average computer user.'
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The $3K Titan V is the fastest graphics card, even though it's not for gaming
By Jarred Walton published
High Volta-ge A preview of what we can expect from the coming generation of Nvidia GPUs.
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What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
By Jarred Walton published
Never forget A primer on memory, how it works, and how much you need.
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