Tech

Your choice of motherboard should never be an afterthought. Sure, your graphics card and CPU are easier to get excited about, since they're the components that are most closely associated with all the in-game settings you'll get to dial up and just how fast you'll be running your games. But, …

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it comes to storage, there are two choices; SSD and HDD. SSDs offer more speed, …

If a manufacturer can’t offer perfect blacks in a television, then they better put a ton of horsepower behind pure panel brightness and color quality. That appears to be what Samsung aimed for here with the QN90B. While it can’t hit the “inky” blacks of an OLED, the Mini LED …

With big PS5 games like God of War, and now Spider-Man Remastered & Miles Morales coming to PC, it was inevitable that Sony would introduce a gaming monitor. The Sony Inzone M9 is a 27-inch gaming monitor with everything you’d want from a 4K screen, including a 144Hz refresh rate …

The Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 Max is a major refresh of one of the best wireless headsets around, the Stealth 700 Gen 2. It costs $50 more, but that money goes a long way: it has the same punchy sound plus double the battery life, extra padding on …

The Sony WH-1000XM5 is finally here. Its predecessor, the WH-1000XM4 has reigned, nearly unchallenged, as the best wireless headphones for two years now. This new iteration comes with a long-overdue redesign while beefing up its active noise canceling smarts, but are these improvements worth the higher $400 price? Sony WH-1000XM5 …

It's not often I start a review by telling you exactly how I feel about a product, but this time it's warranted. Dear reader, I'm smitten with the 2022 rendition of Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. From a lightweight and portable design and solid performance to impressively long battery life – …

Asus just made the Surface Pro of gaming. The Asus ROG Flow Z13 is a 2-in-1 gaming laptop, and much like Microsoft’s Surface line, it has a main tablet body and a detachable keyboard. Of course, to be a gaming laptop, there needs to be some considerable power inside, and …

Why go for a third-party controller when Xbox already has several excellent options on hand? Turtle Beach has set out to make a case for non-Xbox-branded controllers, veering slightly away from its usual gaming headset offerings to give us the Recon Controller. Well-constructed and great performing, this gamepad sets itself …

Standing on the precipice of 2022, OLEDs are considered the pinnacle of modern television technology when it comes to delivering perfect blacks, outstanding color, and top-tier pixel response time. But while Sony edges out LG on pure picture quality thanks to its software, and Vizio tends to offer more affordable …