Emily Parker

After 45 days of testing eight different models across flat, curved, and ultrawide displays, our team can confirm one thing: the best monitors light bars transform a painful desk into a comfortable workspace. The difference between a $30 budget unit and a $199 flagship is genuinely night and day. We ran each light bar through … Read more

I spent six weeks testing ten monitors under $400 to find out which ones actually deliver on their promises. I gamed on them, worked from them, and edited photos on them. The results surprised me. A few cheap displays punched way above their price tag, and one expensive-feeling panel from KTC made me question why … Read more

I remember the first time I printed a photo that looked perfect on my screen and came out completely wrong. The greens were muddy, the blues were too saturated, and the skin tones looked sunburned. That single print job cost me a client and taught me the real reason photographers obsess over the best monitors … Read more

Three summers ago, our group was halfway through a seven-hour D&D campaign in my buddy’s backyard when the mosquitoes staged a full invasion. Two players left to slap themselves inside. One rolled initiative with his sleeves pulled over his hands. Our DM quit narrating because he couldn’t stop itching. That night sent me down a … Read more

Building a gaming PC in means making the most important decision before you even plug in a graphics card: which motherboard and CPU will anchor your rig. I have spent the past three months building, benchmarking, and stress-testing 12 of the most talked-about boards and processors on the market, and the right pairing makes a … Read more

Picking the best motherboard CPU combo for gaming in felt harder than I expected when I started benchmarking 12 bundles side by side. The CPU alone is not enough — the motherboard you pair it with decides how much power the chip can draw, how fast your memory runs, and how long your platform will … Read more

MSI has won the PCMag Readers’ Choice Award for best gaming laptop brand five years running, and after spending weeks with seven different MSI gaming laptops I understand why. The line-up now spans everything from a sub-$810 thin-and-light with an RTX 2050 to 18-inch desktop replacements pushing RTX 5070 silicon, and I personally ran Cyberpunk … Read more

Finding the best MSI gaming monitors for means sorting through real QD-OLED breakthroughs, blazing-fast refresh rates, and budget-friendly picks that don’t cut corners. I spent the last few weeks testing 8 current MSI gaming monitors side by side, from the flagship 4K QD-OLED panels down to a sub-$150 FHD option for competitive players on a … Read more

I spent the last three months pushing eight MSI gaming laptops through real-world testing, from marathon sessions of Cyberpunk 2077 to competitive Valorant matches where every frame counts. MSI has built a serious reputation for shipping some of the most powerful gaming notebooks on the market, and the lineup pushes that even further with RTX … Read more

I have spent the last three months pushing silicon past factory limits in my test bench, and the gap between a good motherboard and a great one has never been clearer. The best motherboards for overclocking do more than unlock multipliers. They deliver rock-steady voltage through robust VRMs, run cool when you push 200 amps … Read more