nVidia has recently released three refreshed cards, the RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and the RTX 4080 Super. That is a lot of Supers! Let us take a look at each, in brief.   RTX 4070 Super   + Pros: This is a proper refresh, with a 10-15% performance increase for the same price as the non-Super version. It remains a good card, with great power efficiency.   – Cons: $600 is still quite a lot of money to throw at a card. It gets worse with the other Supers though.   RTX 4070 Ti Super   + Pros: The performance increase over the non-Super is roughly 5-10%, at the sa ..read more

New titles, new games, new(ish) consoles, and yet we still use the same technology in our game controllers. Sure, the PlayStation 5 controller has some advanced features such as adaptive triggers, but after many months of gaming, you may notice something odd about your Xbox, Switch, or PlayStation controller. Perhaps, your characters walk without input, or the camera moves around slowly. Sure, you wiggle the analog sticks and it’s fine … but only for a moment. One of the sticks has begun to drift on its own. Enter the Hall Effect game controller. They promise to address the annoying issues th ..read more

Newegg Cyber Monday 2023 sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Newegg Cyber Monday 2023 deals. A while after Black Friday caught on, online retailers introduced Cyber Monday in order to get in on the action, with a focus on online shopping. Over time, it became established, and now Cyber Monday is basically just a second Black Friday that happens a few days later! Newegg has been one of the most consistent sources for Cyber Monday sales on PC hardware, so we’ve focused on them and sifted through the thousands of offers they have up for the event. We narrowed down the choices ..read more

Newegg Black Friday 2023 sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Newegg Black Friday 2023 deals. Black Friday is the day where a large number of retailers all around the world have the biggest sales of the year. Newegg’s focus on PC hardware makes it one of the absolute best places to find deals for building a computer on Black Friday. We’ve sifted through hundreds of deals to bring you this list of the 45 best deals on PC components, across nearly every important component category. This year has solid deals for both CPUs and graphics cards, which has not happened in quite a w ..read more

(Information on Steam’s top games were gathered for this article from Steam Charts) Back in January 2020, I crafted a neat little piece discussing the Logical Increments tier needed to enjoy each of the top games on Steam at the time. Fast forward to now, and oh, how the scene has shifted! Back around that period, we were seeing trade tariffs causing a good bump in prices for PC hardware​. As we ventured into late 2020, high demand meant the cost of PC parts kept climbing, and 2021 brought even higher prices—especially for graphics cards due to a cryptocurrency boom. Oh, and let’s not forget ..read more

Today we’re taking a look at used vs. new GPU prices, and whether buying a used graphics card is worth your while. But before we dive in, some context:   Graphics Cards are Expensive in 2023   Regular readers of this blog will know that, arguably, PC parts are headed in the wrong direction. To illustrate that point, let’s go back in time. With the help of the wonderful Internet Archive, we can see that as recently as 2017 there were very affordable GPUs on the Logical Increments charts, starting as low as $50, and appearing in the “Minimum” tier. From about 2018 on to the present d ..read more

Navigating the world of content creation requires more than just a keen eye and creativity; it demands the right tools. Among these tools, a top-notch monitor stands out as a cornerstone for professionals. Whether you’re meticulously editing a photo, crafting a video, or rendering a 3D design, your monitor plays a pivotal role in bringing your vision to life. In this guide, we’ll delve into the essential aspects of a monitor that every content creator should be aware of. From color accuracy to resolution and beyond, we’ll break down what truly matters. Then we’ll finish things off with a grou ..read more

I am always excited by hardware launches! The feeling of fresh, new, unexpected hardware! Progressing technology, things getting faster, or cooler, or cheaper, or all three at the same time. It is wonderful, and it is a feeling I look forward to with each launch… Intel just launched its Raptor Lake refresh CPUs, adding a (hopefully) fresh coat of paint and renewing its Raptor Lake lineup from last year. There are three new CPUs to be considered for positions in our main PC build chart: i5-14600K (14 cores, $320) i7-14700K (20 cores, $410) i9-14900K (24 cores, $600) The Good:   Let us b ..read more

One year ago (almost to the day) Intel presented its A770 and A750 cards to the world. These were reasonably priced cards with reasonable performance, but were not added to our build chart then because—in addition to other minor issues with them—they suffered from two major flaws:   The performance in old titles was poor. The performance on old systems (without Resizable BAR) was poor. It has been a year, and you still need a system that has Resizable BAR, but that is available on all modern platforms launched in the last ~3 years, so it is less of an issue. More importantly, Intel’s l ..read more

We all know that HDDs are essentially obsolete as a technology, as SSDs now do everything better. But HDDs have continued to be manufactured and recommended, as they have one very desirable advantage: A lower price. SSDs have been getting cheaper though, and have overtaken HDDs in some price segments…   How Far SSDs Have Come:   We have already stopped recommending 250GB and 500GB HDDs in our main build chart, as SSDs for those capacities are cheaper. 1TB HDDs and SSDs are (roughly) the same price, so we logically recommend SSDs. For 2TB capacities, the gap is closing. The differenc ..read more