Jarred Walton

High Tune Red Dead Redemption 2 is a massive game, with tons of settings, plenty of bugs, and an appetite for high-end hardware.

🔟 After the travesty of Windows 8, Microsoft got back on track with Windows 10.

Unreliable Everything you need to know to get The Outer Worlds running (mostly) smoothly.

Mech-anic Tune your MechWarrior 5 settings to get the best image quality without killing performance.

Tech Talk There's nothing quite like HEDT motherboards, even if they're totally impractical.

Time Warp The Threadripper 3970X has so many cores, Far Cry 5 doesn't know what to do.

Cachet What is Intel Optane Memory, how does it work, and is it worth buying?

Amp Up What can we expect from the follow up to the RTX 20-series?

Sweet Sixteen A multithreaded 16-core/32-thread beast that's great for content creators and can also play games.

Upgrade time Looking for cheap Nvidia RTX 2080 deals? Aren't we all. These are the best prices you'll find on the GPU today.

High Res There's a growing list of games that will happily consume more than 100GB of storage space.

Driver Woes It's great for getting a new PC up and running, but doesn't always have the latest drivers.

Drone Wars Get better framerates in Breakpoint via FPS boost microtransactions.

Ka-ching Google's Stadia could potentially make a ton of money.

First Look Gears 5 is more demanding than Gears 4, but it can still run on a wide range of hardware.

Fast Lane Falling prices mean even large SSDs are now affordable.

Big guns The latest tale from the Borderlands starts off easy on hardware, but you'll need to bring the big guns for higher resolutions.