Paul Lilly
Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).
Latest articles by Paul Lilly
Walmart is selling a Gateway gaming laptop for $849 and it surprisingly doesn’t suck
By Paul Lilly last updated
Deals It has a Comet Lake processor and a GeForce RTX 2060 GPU, and is $350 below its list price right now.
Walmart is selling Gateway PCs and no, the year is not 1999
By Paul Lilly last updated
News The Gateway brand returns with PCs ranging in price from $200 to $1,200.
Newegg will now build you a gaming PC with your own choice of parts for $99
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Now you can pay Newegg to assemble your gaming rig from scratch if you don't want to do it yourself.
Save 20 percent at Monoprice today with this coupon
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Stock up on HDMI cables or grab a new monitor at a discount.
Logitech built a mechanical keyboard with swappable key switches
By Paul Lilly last updated
News When you're in the mood for a switch.
SteelSeries Rival 110 gaming mouse promises precise control at a low price
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Keeping things simple (and affordable).
Your 2019 LG OLED TV is about to become a big screen G-Sync display
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Previously announced firmware updates that add G-Sync support to certain LG OLED TVs are starting to roll out.
Sennheiser’s open-back GSP 500 gaming headset aims for natural sounding audio
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Built from the ground up for gaming.
Sonos might be making wireless headphones for the premium audio space
By Paul Lilly last updated
News Venturing into new territory.
Origin PC now offers an affordable gaming laptop line
By Paul Lilly last updated
News The new EON15-S series starts at $999.
Here's what HTC's next-generation VR headsets might look like
By Paul Lilly last updated
News HTC is looking for feedback on Project Proton, prototype headsets that look "really, really close to normal glasses."
5 reasons your new PC won’t boot
By Paul Lilly published
Troubleshooting Top troubleshooting tips for a newly built PC that refuses to turn on.
Apacer's new SSDs with 'cutting-edge specs' aren't actually its fastest
By Paul Lilly published
News The hype is high on these PCIe 3.0 SSDs.
Kingston's 16GB and 32GB DDR5 memory kits receive Intel's stamp of approval
By Paul Lilly published
News These DDR5 memory kits are ready for Alder Lake.
Geekbench now blocks benchmark scores from unreleased hardware
By Paul Lilly published
News No more benchmark results for engineering samples.
AMD's new GPU driver promises big gains in Far Cry 6
By Paul Lilly published
News See up to a 13% performance gain in Far Cry 6, according to the release notes.
AMD's RX 6000-series GPUs finally flex in Steam’s hardware survey
By Paul Lilly published
News The Radeon RX 6700 XT is the first RDNA 2 to register a blip on Steam in the main GPU section.
Storage study finds SSDs might not be much more reliable than HDDs after all
By Paul Lilly published
News Backblaze compares the failure rates of SSDs and HDDs in a cloud backup environment.
Pandemic or not, IDC says gaming PC and monitor sales will 'remain strong' for years to come
By Paul Lilly published
News The gaming market was already on fire before the pandemic began.
Silicon Lottery cites 'dwindling' CPU overclocking headroom as a reason for closure
By Paul Lilly published
News Selling cherry-picked processors was a viable business, until it wasn't.
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is optimistic the chip shortage will ease up in late 2022
By Paul Lilly published
News You might actually be able to buy a high-end Zen 4 CPU right out of the gate.
The release version of Windows 11 is now available to everyone in the Insider program
By Paul Lilly published
News This is the build that is likely to launch to the public on October 5.
Microsoft really doesn't want you installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
By Paul Lilly published
News You can install Windows 11 on systems that don't meet the minimum requirements, but there are caveats.
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