We spend a lot of time thinking and writing about monitors on this site. Along with core components like the GPU and the CPU, a monitor is one of the single most impactful pieces of technology for how you interact with your PC and your gaming experience. No matter how powerful the parts or expensive […]
Best Custom PC Builder Websites for 2021 – Compared
With the current focus on pre-built or custom-built PCs, including here at PremiumBuilds where we’ve written about the reasons to build yourself or to buy a prebuilt rig, many buyers are asking the first question when choosing a pre-built PC: who should I have build it? Part of the reason you are letting a professional […]
Prebuilt vs Custom Gaming PC: Which is Best for You?
All hobbies have their major sticking points. Sometimes it’s about brand loyalty, sometimes it’s about styling (spaces vs tabs!), and sometimes it comes down to the purists fighting the rest of the world on ‘best practice’. Like any hobby that has more than one person doing it, the PC gaming world has their own debate: […]
5 Best External GPUs (eGPUs) for 2021
As mobile technology has continued to progress, laptops have caught up in many areas to their desktop counterparts. SSDs have shrunk in size, CPUs have become more power efficient, and batteries have improved capacity and efficiency. But there remains one major component that simply cannot perform as well within the thermally and space-constraints of a […]
How to Build a Mechanical Keyboard (Part 1): Choosing Your Components
While building a PC is by far the most popular ‘DIY’ activity for gaming, there is another crafty adventure that is becoming more and more popular: keyboard building. Mechanical keyboards have been around for decades, in fact mechanical keyboards (or keyboards with a PCB and individual ‘switches’ to create electrical contacts to be read by […]