RTX 5090 Finally Hits $1,999 in the US — Price Premium Breaks After Months Above MSRP
After months of inflated street pricing, GeForce RTX 5090 listings in the U.S. have finally aligned with the launch MSRP. The normalization matters for how […]
Articles by Gavin Bonshor
DDR5 Blasts Past 13,000 MT/s on Intel Z890
Within the last few hours, overclocker reports show DDR5 memory cracking the 13,000 MT/s barrier on Gigabyte’s Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE with an Arrow Lake […]
Ryzen 7 9800X3D Crashes to $429–$449: What the New Low Means for AM5 Buyers Right Now
In the last few hours, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has dipped to as low as $429–$449 at major US retailers, undercutting its $479 launch price […]
Which GPU Should You Buy? The 2025 Mega Guide to Shaders, VRAM, Bandwidth & Real-World Performance
Stop shopping by shader counts and start with physics. This GPU buyer’s guide explains—in long, lab-grade paragraphs—how shader architecture, cache hierarchy, VRAM capacity and bandwidth, […]
Which CPU Should You Buy? The 2025 Mega Guide to Cores, Cache, Memory & Real-World Performance
This expanded edition turns the guide into a lab manual. You get engineering explanations in long-form paragraphs, then reproducible procedures: how to measure cache residency, […]
PCIe 8.0 hits v0.3: 256 GT/s on the road to 1 TB/s x16 — what changes, what breaks, and when you’ll actually see it
PCI-SIG has advanced PCIe 8.0 to the v0.3 draft — the first review milestone toward a 2028 spec. Headline numbers double again to 256 GT/s […]
Modders flash RX 9070 with RX 9070 XT vBIOS for big synthetic gains — here’s what’s really happening
A Reddit modder flashed a standard Radeon RX 9070 with the RX 9070 XT’s vBIOS and reported a 25% uplift in 3DMark, with ~8–12% in […]
BenQ unveils 4K/240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitors — 32-inch adds DisplayPort 2.1, 90 W USB-C
BenQ has announced two 4K/240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitors, headlined by the 32-inch EX321UZ with DisplayPort 2.1 and 90 W USB-C. A 27-inch sibling (EX271UZ) […]
VRMs Demystified — Why Your Motherboard’s Power Delivery Matters More Than RGB
CPU reviews obsess over cores and clocks. Motherboards get judged by colours and ports. The most important part—the VRM—usually gets a paragraph and a shrug. […]
The 2025 BIOS/UEFI Optimization Handbook: Safe Settings That Actually Help
Promise: No “OC roulette.” This handbook focuses on vendor-documented features that are safe, reversible, and deliver repeatable gains: Resizable BAR, Above 4G Decoding, PBO/Curve Optimizer […]