Brad Chacos spends his days digging through desktop PCs and tweeting too much. He specializes in graphics cards and gaming, but covers everything from security to Windows tips and all manner of PC hardware.
Microsoft's DirectStorage technology indeed creates impressively fast load times in Forspoken, but reports of it slowing gaming performance were incorrect.
The WD Black SN850X is the best PCIe 4.0 SSD you can buy right now. We explain why, and what you need to know about ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 drives in general.
PayPal is notifying nearly 35,000 users that their were accounts were breached. But PayPal wasn't hacked; users weren't using unique passwords or two-factor authentication.
CyberPowerPC's powerful new Tracer VII laptops are loaded with the most powerful Intel and Nvidia parts available, and an optional external water-cooler pushes performance even further. You have to see this.
Some Radeon RX 7900 XTX cards are overheating and thermal throttling. At CES 2023, Radeon chief Scott Herkelman talked to Gordon Mah Ung to clarify some things.
An endless parade of technology was revealed at CES 2023, but only a handful can be the best in show. This is the gear that impressed PCWorld's staffers the most.
AMD confirms that some reference Radeon RX 7900 XTX models are overheating, resulting in lower performance. We explain what's going on, which GPUs are affected, and who to contact.
Nvidia brought out the big guns at its CES 2023 event, unveiling the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, new RTX 40-series laptop chips (including 4090 GPUs for the first time), and RTX 4080s in GeForce Now.