The Best Monitors: Top 4K, enthusiast, gaming, and budget choices
With today's cutting-edge PC hardware, a top quality monitor has never been more important. As features such as high refresh rates, 4K displays, ultrawide screens, and syncing technologies become more common, users need to choose wisely. To make picking the right monitor easier, here are our favorites in a handful of distinct categories.
Building a Well-Rounded Gaming Laptop: What specs to look for
Unlike years past, today there are a vast number of quality gaming laptops available that can not only match most home rigs but occasionally outperform them. If you're in the market for a new gaming laptop and want to know what components will give you a well-rounded rig, here's a breakdown of what's on offer.
Best Monitors: Enthusiast, gaming, affordable 4K, and value picks
A good monitor makes all of the difference when you spend several hours a day in front of one, and as we slowly transition into higher resolution panels there's plenty to be excited about right now. After looking at some of the best monitors in the market, and hundreds of professional and user reviews, these are our picks for best monitors in a few distinct categories.
Acer Predator X34 Gaming Monitor Review
Acer's Predator X34 has a curved UQHD (3440 x 1440) AH-IPS panel and garners reasonable gaming cred with a 100Hz vertical refresh rate, G-Sync and an interesting design. Should GeForce owners be drooling or is this one a hard pass?
Nvidia Mobile G-Sync Tested on Origin Eon 17" Gaming Laptop
If you've ever witnessed variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies like G-Sync and FreeSync, then you likely know VRR one of the most significant gaming improvements in recent times. But now the technology has finally gone mobile. With our tricked out Origin EON17-X gaming notebook, we'll be exploring Nvidia's Mobile G-Sync and how it translates to gaming on the go.
AMD FreeSync Review: Laying the groundwork for the ideal adaptive sync standard
While they may be entering the market second with their version of the technology, AMD has laid the groundwork with FreeSync for the ideal adaptive sync standard going forward. The company has delivered on their promises to create a cheaper, more flexible, open standard for variable refresh. We go through some of the main differences with Nvidia's G-Sync, our impressions gaming on a FreeSync monitor, and OEMs crucial role for FreeSync to reach its full potential.