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Gaming & PC Hardware
3 reviews in this category. All long-term tested.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: the best gaming CPU money can buy, with caveats AMD won't tell you
Three months and dozens of game benchmarks. Yes it's the fastest gaming chip. The marketing is still ahead of reality.
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the highest-performing gaming CPU AMD has ever produced, and is the best gaming CPU on the market in early 2026. But the marketing claims of 30%+ uplift over the previous generation only show up in cherry-picked titles; in our broader test suite we measured 8-15% gains over the 9800X3D in 1080p competitive play, and far less at 1440p and 4K where the GPU bottlenecks. The 9950X3D's real value is its productivity story — 16 cores at 5.7 GHz boost — not its gaming uplift. Buyers who only game should consider the cheaper 9800X3D first.
Keychron Q3 Pro review: a near-perfect TKL that gets the boring things right
Five months of hammered keystrokes and a single broken stabilizer later, here's why this keyboard deserves the attention it's getting.
The Keychron Q3 Pro is a CNC-aluminium tenkeyless mechanical keyboard with hot-swappable switches, QMK/VIA support, and triple-mode connectivity. After five months of daily use across both gaming and heavy typing workloads, our verdict is that it does the boring, foundational things right — gasket-mounted typing feel, stable stabilizers, clean firmware — at a price that is not quite a bargain but is genuinely fair. The wireless implementation is the weakest part, but the wired performance is excellent and the build quality is in a class above keyboards at this price.
LG OLED C5 42-inch review: the best gaming display I've used, with a caveat about brightness
Six months daily. Hundreds of hours of competitive play. The input latency is real, the burn-in fear is overblown, and the brightness still isn't where it needs to be.
The 42-inch LG OLED C5 is, in my testing, the best gaming display I've ever owned. The 1.8ms input lag (display-only, measured on our SMTT setup) is genuinely competitive with esports-grade IPS panels, the 144 Hz native panel takes advantage of DisplayPort 2.1 cleanly, and the perceptual response time on dark transitions is something no LCD has ever matched. The caveat is brightness: at 800 nits sustained the panel is bright enough for a sunlit room but not enough for HDR to truly pop. This is our Editor's Pick for gaming displays in 2026, with reservations.