Brad ChacosSenior Editor, PCWorld
Brad Chacos spends his days digging through desktop PCs and tweeting too much. He covers gaming and graphics for PCWorld, and spends his mornings running the news desk for PCWorld, Macworld, Greenbot, and TechHive.
AMD's B550 motherboards will bring PCIe 4.0 to the masses, but leave older Ryzen CPUs behind
AMD announced the long-awaited B550 motherboard chipset with PCIe 4.0 support on Tuesday, along with affordable 3rd-gen Ryzen 3 processors.
Shop carefully: Some Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards are much faster than others
Thanks to a last-second VBIOS upgrade, some Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards are much faster than others. Here's what you need to know, and how to make sure yours is upgraded.
$3K PC build challenge: The parts and peripherals we'd splurge on
The Full Nerd gang challenges each other to build the best $3,000 PC possible, with wonderfully varied results.
Want free games? You need to turn on the Epic Games Store's two-factor authentication
If you want to claim the Epic Games Store's weekly free games, you'll need to protect your account first.
$750 PC build challenge: Watch us debate how we'd spend our money
How would we spec out a fresh $750 PC build? The Full Nerd gang takes on the challenge, with some remarkable similarities—and eye-opening differences.
XCOM meets SWAT: Chimera Squad's radical tweaks make for a refreshing spinoff
XCOM: Chimera Squad tosses key XCOM design elements out the window to give the series a whole new, yet still familiar feel. It's great, especially for $20.
How Nvidia's magical RTX Voice app eradicates background noise in calls and videos
Nvidia is putting the tensor cores in GeForce RTX graphics cards to practical use with RTX Voice, an app that uses those cores to filter background noise in popular programs.
Tested: Minecraft showcases the beauty of ray tracing—and Nvidia's DLSS 2.0
Ray-traced Minecraft is a glorious feast for your eyes, and a grueling test for your graphics card. Our impressions:
RTX On: Minecraft's gorgeous real-time ray tracing is coming this week
Real-time ray tracing is coming to Minecraft for Windows 10 this week if you have an Nvidia GeForce graphics card, and it's stunning. Here's what you need to know.
Nvidia levels up GeForce gaming laptops: RTX Super GPUs, Max-Q advancements, and price drops
Nvidia's celebrating the launch of new Intel and AMD processors by rolling out mobile GeForce RTX 2070 Super and 2080 Super GPUs, price drops, and mouth-watering enhancements to Max-Q low power tech.
The Full Nerd ep. 132: AMD's Ryzen 4000 mobile arrives, and it's amazing
Join Gordon, Brad, Alaina and Adam as they discuss AMD's first victory over Intel in laptops with the Ryzen 4000 CPUs
AMD ascending: How Ryzen CPUs snatched the computing crown from Intel
For the first time ever, AMD's processors rule in both desktops and laptops. Here's how Ryzen managed to overturn Intel's long-held dominance.
How to tune Windows 10 for laser-focused productivity
Windows 10 is chock full of tools that can eliminate distractions, optimize your workflow, and make you all-around more productive—but they aren't always obvious.
Nvidia's faster, better DLSS 2.0 could be a game-changer
Nvidia's faster, better DLSS 2.0 fixes many of the flaws of the original, and it's rolling out to Control and MechWarrior 5 soon.
The Full Nerd ep. 130: DirectX 12 Ultimate and PlayStation 5 specs
Microsoft just married the Xbox Series X to the PC via DirectX 12 Ultimate, and Sony's PlayStation 5 specs get detailed