Emily Parker

After spending three months benchmarking drives in our test bench and swapping SSDs between three different gaming rigs, I can tell you that picking the best ssds for gaming really comes down to matching your setup to the right drive. The Samsung 990 PRO and WD Black SN850X still lead the pack at 7,450 MB/s … Read more

I have spent the last three months rotating 12 of the most popular Steam Deck accessories through my daily gaming routine. I commute with the device, dock it to my TV on weekends, and have been pushing these picks through Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, and emulation workloads to see what actually holds up. The … Read more

Running two computers at the same desk used to mean duplicate keyboards, duplicate mice, and a daily wrestling match with cables. I set up my own gaming rig alongside a work laptop three years ago and went through every USB hub, KVM switch, and random splitter I could find before landing on a setup that … Read more

I spent 90 days living with eight different hi-fi racks in my listening room, switching between a Rega Planar 3 turntable, a PrimaLuna tube amp, and a Chord DAC. The differences were not subtle. Three of those racks added a noticeable smear to the sound, while the others actually let me hear deeper into my … Read more

I have spent the last three months chasing a problem most GPU buyers never have to think about. I wanted the most performance possible in a single PCIe slot, and a low profile bracket to match. That combination is rarer than it should be, and finding the best single slot low profile graphics cards took … Read more

After our team spent three months testing 14 different keyboards across Valorant, CS2, and Apex Legends matches, one thing became clear: the best optical switch gaming keyboards for fast response deliver a measurable edge that mechanical switches can’t match. We clocked actuation times as low as 0.1mm on the top picks, and the difference showed … Read more

Nothing beats a backyard gaming night under the stars with a massive projected screen and a few friends. After testing 8 projectors across 30 evenings of Mario Kart tournaments, Halo firefights, and Switch sports marathons, I can tell you the difference between a great outdoor gaming session and a washed-out blur comes down to ANSI … Read more

I spent 90 days testing 12 OLED portable monitors across coffee shops, hotel rooms, and home studios before writing this guide. After measuring color accuracy with a Calibrite Display Pro and running gaming benchmarks on each panel, I can confidently say that the best OLED portable monitors in deliver what IPS alternatives simply can’t: true … Read more

I spent the last three months rotating 12 of the best PC accessories through my own dual-use setup, gaming at night and working remote during the day. I wanted to find the gear that genuinely pulls weight across both worlds, not just one. After roughly 280 hours of testing (and one too many spreadsheets), here’s … Read more

I built my first gaming PC in a windowed NZXT case back in 2018, and the moment I finished routing every cable behind the motherboard tray, I thought I’d never look back. Then my cat chewed through an RGB fan cable in 2022, and I realized my “clean build” was a disaster waiting to happen. … Read more