I love a good Mini-ITX motherboard. As someone who tests technology for a living, I’m lucky enough to get to play with a seriously high-end device, but I still love it when a capable bargain board shows up on my desk. Not everyone needs or wants a motherboard that costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. … Read more
Last month I put Ghost of Tsushima through a benchmarking meat grinder, testing each graphics preset on multiple CPUs and GPUs. Upscaling and frame generation were also examined to see how well Nixxes Software had done in porting the PS4 hit to the mighty gaming PC. For the most part, everything went very well, making … Read more
Nick Evanson, hardware writer Main photo by PC Gamer staff writer This month I tested: Ghost of Tsushima. Nixxes has done a great job porting it to PC, especially the support for the PS5 Dualsense controller. Oh, and I also looked into a Ryzen 7 5700X3D, as an upgrade for a 5600X. More about this … Read more
A photo of a desktop PC next to a large monitor on a desk, with a keyboard and mouse. Nick Evanson, hardware writer Nicholas Evanson This month I have been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours after hours, run after run. All to see exactly one game being played on different PCs. And I would do it … Read more
PowerColor Hellhound RX 7600 XT graphics card on a red background. How much memory your graphics card can access is critical to gaming performance, but is a larger buffer always worth spending more money on? The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT puts this theory to the test, delivering 16 gigabytes of VRAM alongside a very … Read more