The Best Gaming Keyboards
When it comes to keyboards, the PC gaming crowd looks beyond a comfortable typing experience to favor things like super-fast actuation, macro keys, build quality and customizable RGB lighting.
When it comes to keyboards, the PC gaming crowd looks beyond a comfortable typing experience to favor things like super-fast actuation, macro keys, build quality and customizable RGB lighting.
Old-school PC cases are not dead: no matter the budget or size, you can still get a new case with an external drive bay, no tempered glass, and all of the drive bays you need.
If you're buying a new laptop, there are a slew of options: desktop-rivaling powerhouses, 2-in-1s, MacBooks, gaming, value-conscious machines, and more. This guide takes you through our favorite choices in the market today.
The best Chromebooks have transformed from cheap, disposable computers to versatile, multifaceted devices that come in a variety of shapes and sizes. But which one is the best for you?
Gaming laptops have never been as powerful and lightweight as they are today. Packing the best GPUs and CPUs combined with high-resolution displays, good keyboards, tons of storage, and all the memory you could need.
For a variety of good reasons, 1440p remains the most popular category of gaming monitors. We've split the best options on the market in five categories, so you can get exactly what you need.
After a long testing process, we're ready to show our Intel B560 motherboard VRM thermal data. We've tested a dozen B560 motherboards priced between $80 and $150 with four different 11th-gen Intel CPUs. Here are the results.
The need for a quality router has never been greater. Today every household is packed with phones, laptops, smart TVs, and more devices all fighting for bandwidth. If you want a router that offers better throughput, range, and features, check out our top picks.
Fast storage has become a true commodity and hopefully it will only get bigger and faster. Today's best choices are differentiated by how extreme you want to go and how willing you are to pay for the very best.
With readers constantly inquiring about which CPU they should buy, and after all the extensive testing you're familiar with, the TechSpot CPU buying guide narrows things down to a handful of recommendations you can trust.
There are many factors to consider when buying a new phone, but for most people the crucial element is price. Are you willing to shell out almost a grand on the latest and greatest phone or will a $300 mid-range champion suffice?
1080p remains a very popular resolution for budget monitor buyers, and at the higher end, 1080p also offers a great experience for competitive gamers thanks to super high refresh rates.
Let's do a brief recap of 2020's best and worst PC hardware products. We have 5 categories to work through covering mostly PC hardware components like CPUs, GPUs and motherboards, as well as laptop hardware and monitors.
With GeForce RTX 30 series and Radeon RX 6000 GPUs now out, it's time to revisit the best gaming monitors that complement the performance from next-gen cards, divided in four key categories: 1440p, 4K, ultrawides and 1080p.
TechSpot's Best Monitors guide gets you top-level recommendations for professionals, enthusiast products that are great for work and play, monitors designed purely for gaming, and some noteworthy budget options.
While we're waiting for the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and AC Valhalla to arrive, here are what we consider some of the best PC games you can play right now. From old classics to brand new releases, there's something for everyone.
Fast storage has become a true commodity and hopefully it will only get bigger and faster. Today's best choices are differentiated by how extreme you want to go and how willing you are to pay for the very best.
Timing for buying a new laptop right now is as good as it possibly gets. Intel's 10th-gen chips have found their way into most machines and even AMD's Ryzen 4000 CPU is making a solid appearance, we only wish it was more widely available. From $700 to $7,000 and covering multiple use cases, here are our favorite laptops on the market.
Tablets may not be as hot as they once were, but the form factor is still popular and a very useful form of computing. Case in point, when millions were forced into working and studying from home, tablets nearly became a necessity for teleconferencing, or if you needed a second screen to be more productive, all while being less expensive than a full blown laptop.
The latest generation of Intel Core CPUs have arrived accompanied by the new Z490 platform. Incredibly, there are over 50 Intel Z490 motherboards on the market, with prices ranging from $150 all the way up to $1,300. Here's what you should buy.
We've have on hand nearly every Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card model in existence. We've tested them and now we want to share what are the best models, and more importantly, which one you should (and shouldn't) buy.
There's no point spending lots of money on PC hardware if you don't have a great case to put it in. But with so many options out there, how do you know what's best for you? There are plenty of factors to examine: looks, size, cost, features, thermals, etc. But we're here to make the process easier and narrow things down to a few excellent options for you to consider.
If your gaming PC is in desperate need of a GPU upgrade and you want to save as much money as possible, strap yourself in, this is the guide for you. For the past weeks we've been gathering data for about 80 AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. We've tested them all in 3 representative games using 2 quality presets each, and for the sake of our sanity, limited testing to 1080p performance.
If you're looking to buy a new graphics card today, don't mind all the testing, marginal FPS gains, power consumption figures, or overclocking potential. TechSpot's Best Graphics Cards is written to get a simple question answered: Given a certain budget, which is the graphics card you should buy?
If you're tight on cash but want a really good monitor, this is the article for you. For putting together this buying guide we narrowed down our options to displays that give you the best experience for the lowest possible price.