10 Best Video Capture Cards for Professional Production 2026 Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide When I sat down to build our studio’s two-PC streaming rig earlier this year, I quickly learned that finding the…
Best 10GbE Network Cards for Workstations (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 10GbE Network Cards I spent the last six weeks testing eight of the most popular 10GbE network cards for workstations in my home…
8 Best PCIe Wi-Fi Cards for Desktops 2026 Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide I have built, upgraded, and stress-tested desktop networking on more rigs than I can count, and I can tell you…
8 Best Sound Cards for Audiophile PC Setups (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide If you’ve ever plugged a pair of Sennheiser HD 800 S or a 600-ohm planar set into your motherboard’s 3.5mm…
8 Best Optical Drives for PC Builds (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide When I built my first gaming PC in the early 2000s, every case came with a 5.25-inch bay and an…
8 Best SAS Expander for Storage Servers (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide When my 12-bay TrueNAS chassis started throwing “no space left on pool” errors every other week, I realized my LSI…
8 Best Hot Swap Drive Bays for Servers (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide If you’ve ever watched a RAID array rebuild after a drive failure while your Plex server is frozen, you already…
8 Best Server Chassis for DIY NAS Builds (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide I built my first DIY NAS in a Fractal Node 304 back in 2018, and since then our team has…
10 Best Test Benches for Open Frame PC Builds 2026 Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Buying Guide I’ve spent the last three months rotating CPUs, GPUs, and PSUs through open frames on my workbench, and I can…
8 Best Anti-Static Workbench Mats for PC Building (September 2026) Richard J. Gross September 19, 2026 Anti Static Workbench Mats I built my first PC on a carpeted bedroom floor while wearing socks, and I still get nervous thinking about…
