INTRODUCTION                         PCIe Gen5 SSDs may have been a thing for a while now but we've only now started to see the release of new high-end NAND controller models which have almost entirely eradicated the temperature issues that severely plagued their predecessors. Needless to say, mid-end models were never hindered by this particular issue (at least nowhere near the same degree) and well, it seems that...

INTRODUCTION                       Getting the best graphics or sound cards matters very little if you don't pair them with the best monitor and speakers and well, this is something I've seen happen more times than I can possibly count. Of course, the "best" varies from person to person so for example when it comes to monitors, I tend to sacrifice refresh rates for larger screens (and higher resolutions) whereas others...

INTRODUCTION                           The announcement last year by AMD that they'd no longer compete in the ultra-high-end GPU market with NVIDIA may have come as a shock to many people, but the recent release of their Radeon RX 9070/XT cards was more than enough to satisfy most of them. Granted, these graphics cards may not be able to directly compete with the top current models by NVIDIA (GeForce RTX 4090/5090) but...