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
Check out this Intel Comet Lake motherboard that's smaller than your hard drive
By Paul Lilly published
News It's not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi module.
Patriot's latest PCIe 4.0 SSD is rated to run faster than its controller chip is built for
By Paul Lilly published
News The Viper VP4300 leverages Innogrit's Rainier IG5236 controller to deliver extremely fast read and write speeds.
Intel CEO reacts to Grace, Nvidia's first data center CPU: 'We're on offense, not defense'
By Paul Lilly published
News If Intel is worried about Grace encroaching on its territory, it's not showing it.
Get an Xbox Wireless Controller 'Night Ops Camo' edition for just $40 right now
By Paul Lilly published
Deals Save $30 on one our favorite game controllers with this deal.
Gaming is a big reason why PC shipments remain strong despite a silicon shortage
By Paul Lilly published
News PC shipments jumped more than 55 percent on a yearly basis, according to IDC.
Oh great, now broadband routers are at risk of being in short supply too
By Paul Lilly published
News Some ISPs are seeing order delays of over a year.
Microsoft Edge is the fastest growing browser and it's not even close
By Paul Lilly published
News It's now the second most-popular browser, having overtaken Firefox in market share.
Another lightning quick PCIe 4.0 SSD emerges, now let's see prices come down
By Paul Lilly published
News Teamgroup's latest SSD line is rated to deliver up to 7GB/s of sequential read performance.
Microsoft is dunking servers into boiling liquid to keep them cool
By Paul Lilly published
News A unique two-phase immersion cooling strategy keeps these servers running at full speed.
Gigabyte is launching a tricked out 43-inch quantum dot 4K gaming display
By Paul Lilly published
News A big and bright monitor that's equipped for high resolution gaming in HDR.
Huawei and NZXT are getting in on the monitor game. No fooling
By Paul Lilly published
News The monitor market is gaining some new players.
Finally start backing up your data with this 12TB external HDD for just $180
By Paul Lilly published
News The discounted price works out to less than two cents per gigabyte with this deal.
G.Skill's new DDR4-5333 RAM for Rocket Lake is faster than some DDR5 kits
By Paul Lilly published
News Don't expect it to be cheap, though.
Bandwidth busting PCIe 4.0 SSDs rated over 7GB/s are launching by the day
By Paul Lilly published
News SSD makers are coming close to saturating the PCIe 4.0 x4 bus.
We've officially entered the era of gaming PCs shipping without a graphics card
By Paul Lilly published
News Prebuilt gaming desktops for people who already own a GPU.
NZXT throws Ryzen owners a bone with its first AMD motherboard
By Paul Lilly published
News NZXT's introductory AMD motherboard is based on the B550 chipset.
AOC's chonky new budget gaming headsets aren't what we were expecting from the display maker
By Paul Lilly published
News AOC takes aim at the budget category with its first headsets, the GH200 (£39) and GH300 (£49).
If your broadband connection sucks the FCC wants to hear about it
By Paul Lilly published
News The FCC wants to improve the accuracy of its broadband maps.
Acer says it’s ‘constantly under attack’ amid reports of a $100M ransomware demand
By Paul Lilly published
News It would be the largest ransomware payout ever, if it comes to pass.
You can finally order a gaming monitor with HDMI 2.1, but it costs nearly $1,900
By Paul Lilly published
News The 43-inch Asus ROG Strix XG43UQ is capable of 4K gaming at 144Hz, with pre-orders finally available.
Patriot dials up the Rage on USB flash drives, delivering near SATA SSD speeds
By Paul Lilly published
News Patriot's Supersonic Rage Pro picks up where the speedy Rage 2 left off.
AMD’s latest GPU driver adds a tool to stress test your overclocked graphics card
By Paul Lilly published
News The built-in tool negates the need to seek out a third-party utility to ensure your GPU overclock is stable.
Here come the high-speed PCIe 4 SSDs 'optimized' for Rocket Lake
By Paul Lilly published
New Addlink's messaging on its newest SSDs is needlessly confusing.
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