AMD's last minute 5600 XT BIOS update feels like a 'bait and switch' By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Will the real RX 5600 XT please stand up?
Why I love extreme motherboards By Jarred Walton Tech Talk There's nothing quite like HEDT motherboards, even if they're totally impractical.
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT specs, release date, price, and everything we know By Jarred Walton RDNA The first Navi parts will skip ray tracing, focusing instead on boosting performance and improving efficiency via the new RDNA architecture.
Looking forward to Nvidia's RTX 3080 and the next generation 7nm GPUs By Jarred Walton Amp Up What can we expect from the follow up to the RTX 20-series?
Why are game install sizes getting so big? By Jarred Walton High Res There's a growing list of games that will happily consume more than 100GB of storage space.
Windows Update isn't always the best way to distribute drivers By Jarred Walton Driver Woes It's great for getting a new PC up and running, but doesn't always have the latest drivers.
The first successful cloud gaming platform could make billions By Jarred Walton Ka-ching Google's Stadia could potentially make a ton of money.
The HDD is dead to me By Jarred Walton Fast Lane Falling prices mean even large SSDs are now affordable.
How to prepare your PC for major Windows updates By Jarred Walton Prepper PC Sometimes routine updates go wrong, and it pays to be prepared.
Do games at 1080p look worse on a higher resolution monitor? By Jarred Walton Pixel perfect High resolution monitors are great for productivity but can be rough on games.
How to transfer game files between PCs By Jarred Walton Data Crap It's possible on every major digital storefront... except the Microsoft Store.
Control is the best, most complex implementation of ray tracing in a game so far By Jarred Walton fps We're finally starting to see ray tracing effects that are worth the performance hit.
How are microchips made, anyway? By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Creating a modern microprocessor is an incredibly complex undertaking.
How to lower your graphics card temperature By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Tweaking your GPU fan curve, undervolting, and other suggestions.
The CPU wars are shifting in AMD’s favor By Jarred Walton Tech Talk AMD throws down the gauntlet this summer with 7nm while Intel continues work on 10nm.
AMD and Nvidia's next fight could be over the number 3080 By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Will the real 3080 GPU please stand up?
Intel is fighting a battle between performance and security By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Why it took more than 10 years for many of these flaws to come to light.
Intel CPU roadmap: all the 'Lakes' from 14nm to 7nm By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Here's the rundown of Intel's past, present, and future 'Lake' CPU families and codenames.
Remembering Rage, a flawed but technical marvel By Jarred Walton Retrospective The things I remember most about Rage are megatexturing and a 60fps framerate cap.
Why actually hitting 144fps is so hard in most games By Jarred Walton Tech Talk Higher framerates can be great, but getting there requires more than just hardware.
