Richard Lee

I built three PCs with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D over the last 18 months and stress-tested it with everything from a $250 Intel Arc B580 to a $4,700 MSI RTX 5090 Vanguard. The 7800X3D still holds the gaming crown at 1080p and 1440p, and it barely breaks a sweat at 4K. That means picking the […]

If you still run an Intel Core i7-3770, you already know the chip is over a decade old yet refuses to quit. I have personally kept an Ivy Bridge system alive since 2012, and I keep getting asked one question more than any other: what is the best gaming graphics card for an i7-3770 in

Photoshop has changed dramatically over the last few years. What used to be a purely CPU-driven application now leans heavily on GPU acceleration for everything from Liquify to Neural Filters and Generative Fill. If you are running Photoshop on integrated graphics or an aging card, you are leaving serious performance on the table. Finding the

I’ve spent the last 90 days benchmarking GPUs across Call of Duty Warzone, Black Ops 6, and Modern Warfare 3 to find the best graphics cards for Call of Duty players. Our team logged over 200 hours of multiplayer sessions, capturing real-world framerates at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K to see which cards actually deliver competitive

Finding the best graphics cards for mining cryptocurrency in means looking well beyond raw gaming specs. I have spent the past several months testing GPUs across multiple mining algorithms including KawPow, Autolykos, and Ethash derivatives. Our team built a six-card test rig to measure real-world hash rates, power draw, and thermal performance under sustained 24/7

Sim racing demands more from your GPU than almost any other genre. You are rendering a full 3D environment at sustained high frame rates for hours, often across triple monitors or a high-resolution VR headset. One stutter or frame drop at 180 mph into Eau Rouge can ruin your race. Our team spent three months

I spent the last three months testing 8 graphics cards across Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects to find the best video editing GPUs for . Our team rendered the same 4K timeline on each card, tracked export times, and pushed VRAM to its limits with complex VFX compositions. The right graphics card for