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The unsung hero of PC performance, these days it’s often storage that makes the difference between a fast, responsive PC and something that feels like less. A processor can only work as quickly as it can be fed data, and this is where a good solid state drive can help even a slow system become faster. Whether it’s an upgrade for an older system still packing a hard drive, or building out a new system from scratch, picking the right SSD is one of the more important decisions to make in configuring and customizing a computer. To help with this, we’ve assembled our SSD guide, outlining the best choices in SSDs of every form factor and price range. Last year saw massive SSD price drops...
Best CPUs for Gaming: Q1 2019
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
79 by Ian Cutress on 2/8/2019
Best Video Cards for Gaming: Holiday 2018
For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the...
30 by Nate Oh on 11/26/2018
Best Laptops: Holiday 2018
It's time for our holiday look at the laptop market. We are still waiting on the Intel Gemini Lake models to ship, so it's not the best time to...
40 by Brett Howse on 11/22/2018
Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2018
Now that you've picked out your CPU, it's time to start picking out the rest of your system components. And perhaps the most humble but overlooked of these components...
9 by E. Fylladitakis on 11/21/2018
Best Motherboards: Holiday 2018
With 2018 coming to a close and probably one of the busiest years in recent times in terms of motherboard and new chipset releases, an overabundance of choice makes...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/20/2018
Best Android Phones: Holiday 2018
Sizing up the Android smartphone market, late fall is a very tough timing in terms of buying smartphones. The fall is all almost entirely monopolized by Apple and the...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/19/2018
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2018
Along with our quarterly laptop guide, near the end of every year we also like to take a look at the state of the gaming laptop market. With a...
23 by Brett Howse on 11/16/2018
Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2018
Continuing our run of holiday buyers' guides, today we're taking a look at peripherals. Considering that a PC’s peripherals can easily outlive the main system’s components and usually stay...
27 by E. Fylladitakis on 11/16/2018
Best Consumer Hard Drives: Holiday 2018
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
50 by Ganesh T S on 11/15/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Holiday 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
0 by Ian Cutress on 10/24/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Q3 2018
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
Delidding The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G APU: How To Guide and Results
Delidding is a process with the aim being to reduce CPU core temperatures on processors with a less-than-ideal thermal interface between the silicon and headspreader. The benefits of delidding...
73 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/10/2018
Overclocking The AMD Ryzen APUs: Guide and Results
With AMD’s new launch of Raven Ridge APUs, the Ryzen 3 2200G ($99) and Ryzen 5 2400G ($169), AMD holds the current integrated graphics apex when directly compared against...
55 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2018
Best CPUs: August 2017
Our newest CPU Guide can be found here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus Best CPUs, August 2017 Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give...
0 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2017
Best CPUs Q2 2017
In our series of Buyer Guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of...
0 by Ian Cutress on 7/6/2017
Best Tablets: Q1 2017
Unlike the red-hot smartphone market that continues to grow, with new models appearing at a blistering rate, the tablet market is, well….a little boring. Apple still releases a few...
30 by Matt Humrick on 3/31/2017
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2016
It’s been about a year since our last look at gaming laptops, and the one major change over last year is the launch of the 16 nm FinFET GPUs...
44 by Brett Howse on 12/19/2016
Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2016
For today's holiday buyers' guide we are having a look at power supplies. Once again, I shall begin with discussing and clarifying a common misconception among users, that a...
63 by E. Fylladitakis on 11/30/2016
Best NASes: Q1 2016
Network-attached storage vendors do not usually follow a regular yearly cadence in updating their offerings. Releases for different market segments are spread throughout the year. That said, thanks to...
26 by Ganesh T S on 3/30/2016
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