Ethan Walker

I’ve spent the last six weeks rotating between eight of the best OLED curved gaming monitors on my desk — running them through competitive shooters, sim racing, AAA single-player marathons, and a full week of office work on each. The category has exploded since , and the gap between last year’s top picks and the … Read more

Finding the best gaming keyboards with numpad is harder than it should be. Most gaming-focused boards skip the number pad to save desk space, but plenty of gamers want both competitive performance and a full number pad for spreadsheets, MMO macros, or stream scene switching. After testing eight boards over six weeks across FPS, MMO, … Read more

I spent the last three months testing every budget GPU I could get my hands on, and the market is anything but simple. Between AI-driven GDDR6 shortages pushing prices well above MSRP and Intel finally delivering competitive options, picking the best budget graphics cards for gaming has become a research project of its own. I … Read more

I have spent the last three months testing 8 of the most popular gaming earbuds with good mic options on the market. My team and I ran them through 40+ hours of ranked matches in Valorant and Apex Legends, dozens of Discord calls, and long Steam Deck sessions on the road. What we found surprised … Read more

I tested eight of the most popular affordable gaming mouse pads over the past three months, running them through daily FPS sessions, late-night MOBA grinds, and long workdays. I tracked fraying, slip, glide consistency, and how flat each one stayed on my desk. This guide breaks down the best cheap gaming mouse pads you can … Read more

I’ve burned through more controllers than I’d like to admit chasing the best PC gaming controllers under $100. After months of testing across shooters, racing sims, and soulslike binges, I’ve narrowed the field to eight standouts that punch well above their price tags. Whether you’re tired of fighting stick drift on a stock Xbox pad … Read more

If you already own a motherboard with Intel’s LGA 1200 socket, you don’t need to throw away the whole platform to get a serious gaming upgrade. The best gaming CPUs for LGA 1200 still hold up well for 1080p and even 1440p gaming, especially when paired with a modern GPU. We spent weeks testing and … Read more

I built my first PC in a full-size mid-tower and immediately regretted it. The case swallowed half my desk, looked like a brick of black metal, and made my living room feel like a server closet. After three builds and countless hours comparing cases on r/buildapc, I learned that the best compact ATX cases in … Read more

I spent six weeks rotating ten of the most popular cheap ultrawide gaming monitors through my test bench, running everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to competitive Valorant, and one thing jumped out: the gap between a cheap ultrawide gaming monitor and a mid-tier one is smaller than it has ever been. A few years ago, a … Read more

Your gaming PC holds the most sensitive and expensive electronics in your home, but most people plug it straight into the wall and hope nothing happens. A single voltage spike from a storm, a brownout, or a tripped breaker can destroy a 4090 GPU or fry a 1000W PSU in milliseconds. After testing dozens of … Read more