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 He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander was released a few months later.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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Free Frames You'll need to manually change this important setting to get a better Fallout 76 experience.

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Octo-cpus Building a better mainstream 8-core chip.

By Jarred Walton, Alan Dexter Published
Ask PCG Looking at the causes and solutions for frame pacing problems.

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.

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?

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.

By Alice Newcome-Beill, Jarred Walton Published
Unlocked, ready to rock Here are the best CPUs for gaming to gas up your rig.

By Jorge Jimenez, Jarred Walton Published
Pixel Power These are the best graphics cards to slot into your gaming PC, right now.

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.

By Jarred Walton Published
Performance Analysis Pretty much any PC built in the last five years can run this game.

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.

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.

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.

By Jarred Walton Published
Tech Talk Will the real RX 5600 XT please stand up?

By Jarred Walton Published
Shake it up AMD's RX 5600 XT shakes up the mid-range market with good performance for under $300.

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.

By Jarred Walton Published
Hands Free The 20 minute ride included plenty of traffic, and the 'safety engineer' didn't touch the controls once.

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.

By Jarred Walton Published
Hands On Intel's Xe Graphics performance needs to improve a lot between now and launch.

By Jarred Walton Published
CES 2020 Intel also gave a sneak peek of DG1, its first discrete graphics card using Xe Graphics.

By Jarred Walton Published
CPU Wars Performance for the 'real world,' backed by cherry picked benchmarks.

By Joanna Nelius, Jarred Walton Published
Crystal Ball A preview of the upcoming tech we expect to see in 2020.

By Jarred Walton Published
Laser swords Hitting 60 fps isn't too difficult, though occasional stutters can be a problem.
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