Steven Walton

God of War Ragnarök has finally made its way to PC after being a PlayStation exclusive for two years. While it's technically an older game, it still looks amazing on PC, plays incredibly well, and incorporates several new technologies such as DLSS 3, FSR 3.1, XeSS 1.3 upscaling, and both FSR and DLSS frame generation.

The "new" AMD 800-series chipsets and their accompanying motherboards are now officially released. So, if you're looking to buy one, you can now – but should you? What do these new motherboards have to offer, how do they perform, and how much do they cost?

We've tested the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with Windows 11 24H2 and compared it to the new Ryzen 7 9700X. This review dives into performance data across patched...

AMD has worked hard to improve Zen 5 CPUs since their launch two months ago, but performance remains underwhelming. With BIOS updates, price cuts, and Windows optimizations,...

The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K features 8 P-Cores and 12 E-Cores with improved clock speeds and power efficiency. Let's see how it compares to AMD's lineup...

Intel's new mainstream Core Ultra 5 245K challenges the Ryzen 7 9700X in gaming and productivity. With 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, plus DDR5 support, it offers...

Today we're finally able to show you how AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D performs, and spoiler alert – it's a real weapon that solves the issues we encountered with the non-3D Zen 5 chips before this. Without question, this is the best CPU released since the 7800X3D, making this launch particularly exciting.

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Benchmark at 1080p

Today, we're re-reviewing the Core Ultra 9 285K – just kidding! Instead, we're throwing Intel's latest flagship CPU to the wolves, and by that we mean we are comparing it head-to-head with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D across 45 games.

We have spent a considerable amount of time over the past few days staring at the Shader Compilation loading screen in a new game called Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. For some of you, the game needs no introduction. But frankly, that experience has been more enjoyable than testing half the products we've reviewed in 2024, so probably not even cracking the top 10 most boring things I've done this year (that was a joke – I love what I do)...