Tyler Morgan

Small desks have a way of making a “normal” monitor feel oversized. I learned this the hard way when my 27-inch display started overhanging the edge of a 24-inch deep desk, leaving no room for my keyboard or coffee mug. After testing dozens of compact displays for our team over the past few months, I … Read more

1440p gaming hit a turning point in . What used to demand a top-tier GPU now sits comfortably in mid-range territory, and our team spent the last three months benchmarking seven current-generation cards to find the best graphics cards for 1440p gaming at every budget. We ran each GPU through a dozen AAA and competitive … Read more

If you have spent any time researching gaming CPUs in , you have seen the same advice repeated everywhere: buy an AMD X3D chip. The reason is simple. AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology stacks extra L3 cache vertically on top of the CPU die, giving games a much bigger pool of fast memory right next to … Read more

I spent the last three months building gaming rigs inside eight of the best ITX cases for a small form factor gaming PC I could get my hands on. I shoved RTX 5080s into 13-liter shells, threaded custom-sleeved cables through cramped PSU shrouds, and ran thermal benchmarks until my fingers hurt. Mini-ITX cases are a … Read more

If your gaming rig runs on an AM4 motherboard or an Intel LGA 1700 DDR4 board, you do not need DDR5 yet. I have spent the past three months testing the best DDR4 RAM kits for older gaming builds across a Ryzen 7 5800X and an Intel Core i7-12700K system, and the results surprised me. … Read more

I spent the last three months stress-testing eight GPUs across Twitch, YouTube, and Kick streams to find the best graphics cards for streaming and encoding. We ran each card through 30+ hour streaming sessions, pushed them at 1080p60, 1440p60, and 4K60 outputs, and measured frame loss, encoder saturation, and CPU overhead. What I found changed … Read more

When I built my first competitive gaming PC for CS2 and Valorant, I made the same mistake most budget buyers make: I chased a cheap GPU that bottlenecked my 144Hz monitor. Months of research and dozens of test rigs later, I know exactly which budget graphics cards actually deliver smooth frame rates for 1080p esports. … Read more

If you game until 2 AM and then jump into a Premiere timeline at 8 AM, your monitor is lying to both of you. I have spent the last three months testing eight different colorimeter kits across my dual ASUS OLED gaming setup and a separate 27-inch 4K photo editing display, and the difference between … Read more

Building a compact gaming PC means thinking differently about every component, especially the graphics card. I have spent the last year testing compact GPUs in cases like the Cooler Master NR200, Lian Li A4-H2O, and Fractal Terra, and I can tell you the difference between a perfect fit and a paperweight comes down to a … Read more

I built my first gaming PC 12 years ago, and I still remember scraping dried paste off an Athlon cooler with a credit card. Since then our team has tested over 40 thermal compounds across hundreds of gaming builds, server racks, and overclocked workstations. The difference between a cheap paste and the right one for … Read more