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Thermaltake Tt Premium X1 RGB

The macro master with speedy keys

Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT

Fine sounds with full freedom

BattleTech

Hulking heavy metal takes a lesson from XCOM

Corsair HS70 SE Wireless

Our new favorite wireless cans?

Corsair Crystal 280X RGB

Corsair makes a stab at an RGB microATX cube

Acer Swift 3 SF315-41

AMD’s Ryzen makes the move to mobile

Speed Up Your Windows

Give your PC a burst of speed with this collection of tools to tweak, optimize, and reinstall Windows

MSI GT73VR Titan Pro

Nvidia’s awesome GTX 1080 graphics presented in a portable package.

Alienware Area 51M vs. Asus ROG Mothership GZ700 vs. Razer Blade 15

Absolute power? Or a nod to portability? Nvidia now bifurcates its mobile GPU offerings, with full performance or so-called Max-Q options, the latter running lower clocks, drawing less power, and squeezing into slimmer systems. A thin-and-light laptop with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080? For real. But what makes for the better all-around gaming laptop?

Falcon Northwest Mach V

Daring to dream, with a rig of top-tier components.

Razer Blade Stealth 13

Slim, slick, and slightly gameable.

Zotac Gaming GeForce GTX 1660

GDDR5 allows for a truly mainstream price point, balancing value against performance.

Asus Designo Curve MX38VC

A premium productivity panel, but at a price.

Maingear Vybe

As close to perfection as it gets for a prebuilt PC.

EVGA Nu Audio

We didn’t hear this one coming.

Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming

When did motherboards get so expensive?

AMD Radeon VII

A promising first taste of 7nm, but not a revolution.

BenQ PD2700U

Give us pixels, and plenty of ’em.

Zotac Gaming Geforce RTX 2060 AMP

A mainstream RTX card that’s affordable and still fast

Nvidia Titan RTX

A gold-plated status symbol for a godlike content creation PC.

Built To Budget

Intel and AMD have both upped their game in regard to budget CPUs with integrated graphics—which should you pick? 

AMD Budget Masterclass

Ryzen APUs bring bucketloads of bounty to the budget builder’s back pocket

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super

A modest boost to performance

Acer Predator XB3

Acer makes 4K, HDR, and 144Hz IPS goodness a tiny bit cheaper

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

AMD’s third-gen Ryzen vies for the CPU throne

HDR And The PC: It's Complicated

HDR monitors will be awesome. And awfully complicated, says Jeremy Laird.

Vampyr

If it’s blood you want, you can count on Dr. Reid.

Corsair Carbide 275R

A no-fuss, some-frills mid-tower.

Asus ROG Maximus X Formula

We’ve been taken to tenth-gen heaven.

Next-Level Liquid Cooling With Ryzen

Follow our guide to building your own piece of computational perfection.