Latest articles by Alan Dexter
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best gaming motherboards: these are the mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Best external hard drives
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Best MSI gaming laptop deals
Big Dragon Energy Ride the dragon with these killer MSI gaming laptop deals.
iBuyPower Gaming RDY SLMBG218 PC review
Review The CPU focus will appeal to a niche but gamers would benefit more from a better GPU.
NZXT Streaming Plus BLD Kit PC review
Review Lego for adults… and there's nothing wrong with adults playing with Lego either.
Save up to $300 on these RTX 3060 Lenovo laptops right now
Deals Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5? 15.6-inch or 17.3-inch? The choice is yours.
Western Digital's new drive promises to be every gamer's dream SSD
News Up to 7,300MB/s, predictive loading, minimized latency, and adaptive thermals promise perfection.
Western Digital's new SSD is aimed at budget gamers
News The WD_Black SN750 SE is a long way off the performance of the SN850.
Samsung promises big things with the first DisplayPort 2.1 8K ultrawide monitor
News Shame it isn't really 8K.
HTC's new Vive Pro 2 headset comes with a beefy specs list... and price tag
News Dedicated PC VR isn't giving up the fight just yet.
Watch AMD announce its new Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards right here
News "Together we advance_gaming" is my new catchphrase.
Big surprise, Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't actually faster than an RTX 3090
News Benchmarks show Apple may have been over-eager with the M1 Ultra's performance.
G.Skill shows DDR5-8000 kit running on an Intel Core i9 13900K
News It's also announced Trident Z5 DDR5-7800 kits are on the way.
Windows 11 appears to be hobbling AMD Ryzen 7000 performance
News Another reason gamers may want to look lower down AMD's CPU stack.
RAM and SSD prices could increase as manufacturers cut production
News If you've been eyeing up a RAM or SSD upgrade, you may want to act now.
Intel promises its drivers 'will get there' as Arc Alchemist A770 readies for launch
News Not long to go until we find out if this is going to be a three-horse race.
Acer shows off its own take on the Intel Arc A770
News The Acer Predator BiFrost certainly catches the eye.
XeSS performs worse than native rendering on AMD's Ryzen 7 5700G
News Lara's better off ignoring the fancy new thing and sticking to basics.
Intel XeSS upscaling looks as good as DLSS in Tomb Raider and is almost as quick
News Death Stranding: Director's Cut also gets some upscaling love from Intel.
DLSS 3 is exclusive to the RTX 40-series but older GPUs still benefit
News Standard DLSS isn't going anywhere.
