The Gamer's Bench
Browsing The Gamer's Bench, you'll find a full range of articles digging deep into issues that matter most to gamers: performance, performance, and performance! We said that three times because gaming performance is a multi-faceted concept, so we look at issues ranging from CPU scaling in games (with an emphasis on both clockspeed and cores), the experience offered by video cards from AMD and Nvidia at a range of pricepoints and resolutions, as well as issues related to overclocking and cooling, which will be of interest to any gamer looking to push the limits of their gaming rig!
Our goal is to make this a whole lot more in-depth than the typical single-product review, which is the focus of most tech publications these days. In the articles below, we will always give you a comprehensive look at topics that are of critical importance to PC gaming enthusiasts. We think you'll come away from our explorations with a new perspective on what it takes, indeed what it means, to build a high-performance gaming PC.
Patriot Viper Steel DDR4-4400 RAM: High Frequency on Intel, 3600 & Tight Timings on AMD?
While most people choose RAM based on the published frequency and CAS latency, there's a whole lot more going on underneath a RAM's heatspreaders, as we found in our deep dive with Patriot's Viper Steel 4400 kit!
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The DDR4-3600 RAM Shootout: Do Timings Matter, plus an RGB Comparison
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Does RAM Speed Matter? DDR4-3200 vs. 3600 and 4000
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AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X: Unprecedented Performance
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AMD's Ryzen 3 3200G and Ryzen 5 3400G
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The Video Card Rankings (2019)
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AMD's Athlon Takes On Intel's Dual-Cores for Ultra-Budget Supremacy
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Pushing ITX Gaming to the Limit: The RTX 2080 Ti in Under 12 Liters!
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AMD's Ryzen 7 2700 CPU: The Ultimate Multi-Core Value?
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AMD's Second Assault: The Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X Reviewed
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Benching the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Air vs. Liquid Cooling
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Taking 4K Gaming to the Limit: GTX 1080 Ti in SLI
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Founders Edition vs. Open-Air Video Card Coolers: The Definitive Analysis
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The 4K Gaming Showdown: GeForce GTX 1070 SLI vs 1080 SLI vs Titan X Pascal
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Battlefield 1 Benchmarked: 6600K/6700K/6900K and R9 270X through Titan X!
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SLI Scaling Analyzed: EVGA's GeForce GTX 1080 SC and HB SLI Bridge
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Intel's Core i5-6600K vs i7-6700K vs i7-6900K in Games
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Taking the 4K Challenge: GTX 1070 SLI on Z170 and X99
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Memory and Gaming: The RAM-VRAM Connection
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First Look: DX12 Performance in Rise of the Tomb Raider
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A State of the Game Report: 290 vs. 390X vs. 970 vs. 980
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Gaming on DDR4 Memory: 2133 vs 2666 & 3200MHz & 8GB vs 16GB
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Ultralight Gaming Shootout: Pentium G3258 vs. Core i3-4170 vs. Core i3-6100
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The Quad vs. Hex Showdown: Core i7-4790K vs. 5820K in Games
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Does the OS Matter? Windows 8.1 versus Windows 10 in Games
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Taking the 4K Gaming Challenge with GTX 980 Ti SLI
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Video Card Comparison: Blower-Style vs. Open-Air Coolers
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Does RAM Speed Matter? DDR3-1600 vs. 1866, 2133, and 2400 in Games
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The Best Gaming CPUs: Pentium vs. Core i3 vs. Core i5 vs. Core i7
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CPU Bottlenecking in Games
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Does Memory Matter? 4GB versus 8GB versus 16GB in Gaming
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Dual-Core, Quad-Core, and Hyperthreading Benchmark Analysis