Emily Parker

Your brand new XFX graphics card is a beast. The triple-fan cooler, the aggressive heatsink, the factory overclock — it all looks stunning through your tempered glass side panel. Then three months later, you notice it. The whole card has dipped forward at a slight angle, pulling against the PCIe slot like a slow-motion disaster. … Read more

I spent the last three months living with eight of the most popular AMD X870 and X870E motherboards on the market, swapping them through a Ryzen 9800X3D test bench and running them through VRM thermal stress, DDR5 memory overclocking, and real gaming loads. After testing, retesting, and yes, occasionally swearing at finicky BIOS screens, I’m … Read more

I spent six weeks testing the latest X870E motherboards with a Ryzen 9800X3D and a Ryzen 9950X to find the best X870E motherboards you can actually buy right now. Twelve boards made the cut, ranging from a $239 budget TUF board to a $1,299 flagship with a 5-inch LCD screen and seven M.2 slots. Every … Read more

I spent six weeks stress-testing ten Zigbee hubs in my gaming setup, and what I learned changed how I think about ambient lighting forever. The difference between a 50ms response and a 300ms response is the difference between lighting that pulls you into a game and lighting that distracts you from it. This guide covers … Read more

The 1973 Yom Kippur War produced some of the most iconic armored warfare scenes in modern history. Israeli Centurions held the Golan Heights against impossible odds while modified M48 Pattons and captured T-55s fought in the Sinai. Building the best Yom Kippur War armor kits lets you recreate those moments in 1/35 scale plastic on … Read more

My son begged me for a quad the summer he turned 7, and within three days of unboxing it I was standing in a sporting goods aisle staring at a wall of helmets trying to figure out which one wouldn’t let him down if the worst happened. That kicked off two months of research, four … Read more

After spending three months testing boards with our Intel Core i9-14900K and Core i7-14700K rigs, I can tell you the best Z790 motherboards deliver more than just an LGA 1700 socket. The Z790 chipset remains the sweet spot for Intel 13th and 14th gen builds in , even with Z890 boards now on shelves. You … Read more

I spent the last three months building, benchmarking, and stress-testing 8 Z890 motherboards across three different Intel Core Ultra processors. Intel’s Z890 chipset sits at the top of the LGA 1851 stack, built specifically for the Core Ultra 200 series (Arrow Lake) CPUs. It brings native PCIe 5.0, DDR5-6400+ memory support, Wi-Fi 7, and Thunderbolt … Read more

Building a new PC around Intel’s Core Ultra 200S “Arrow Lake” processors means you need a motherboard with the Z890 chipset. After spending six weeks testing eight different boards in our lab, we put together this guide to help you find the best Z890 motherboards for Intel Core Ultra in . We ran Cinebench loops, … Read more

I spent the last three months researching and visiting location-based entertainment venues to find the best VR arcade machines for commercial entertainment centers in . My team walked through 11 family entertainment centers, interviewed 7 operators, and crunched revenue data from over 40 commercial installations before settling on this list. VR arcade machines are commercial … Read more