Samuel Willetts

Job Title: Former Hardware Editor
Joined: September 2021
Twitter: samwisewilletts
Bio: Sam has spent the past two decades tinkering with computers. You'll regularly find his hands inside a PC, swapping out components from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. Otherwise, you'll find him on the show floor of CES and Computex, talking the night away about the latest pieces of shiny silicon. He has bylines at Custom PC, PC Gamer, Pocket Tactics, T3, and TopTenReviews.

Best Elden Ring settings for max fps

Jun 21, 2024

Best PC fans in 2024

Five of the best PC fan options on a pink gradient background

Jun 19, 2024

Best Asus gaming laptops in 2024

Two of the best Asus gaming laptops on a purple background

Jun 17, 2024

Razer Iskur V2 review

Jun 14, 2024

Best gaming chairs 2024

Best gaming chairs - three top gaming chairs against a pink gradient background

Jun 12, 2024

Best SSD for gaming 2024

The best SSD for gaming - three SSDs on a colorful gradient background

May 28, 2024

Intel Arrow Lake release date estimate, specs rumors, and latest news

A 3D render of an Intel Core Ultra processor with its multiple tiles levitating above the CPU

May 20, 2024

SteelSeries Arena 7 review

SteelSeries Arena 7 speakers review

May 16, 2024

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) review

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) review

May 14, 2024

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE review - a mighty mid-range maverick

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Sapphire Pure graphics card review

May 13, 2024

Best graphics card 2024

Best graphics cards: three of the top GPUs for gaming on a colorful background

May 13, 2024

RTX 5090 is Nvidia’s only hope for 2024, leak suggests

A mockup of a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, with a pixelated graphics card behind it

May 3, 2024

Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs can crack your password in seconds

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card against a blurred background of code

May 3, 2024

Get this Nvidia RTX 4060 gaming PC now for just $999

A Lenovo Legion Tower 5 gaming PC, featuring an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU

May 3, 2024

Windows 11 is now installed on almost half of all Steam PCs

May 3, 2024

Valve Index is in trouble as Meta Quest 3 closes Steam VR headset gap

A large Meta Quest 3 (top) looms over a small Valve Index (bottom)

May 3, 2024

New Starfield update gives your CPU a performance boost

Starfield companion Vasco (center), giving a thumbs up, surrounded by an Intel CPU (left) and AMD CPU (right)

May 2, 2024

Fallout dominates Steam Deck most played but falls short of top spot

Fallout characters, including an NCR Ranger (left) and Brotherhood of Steel power armor (right), appear on a Steam Deck with Vault 111's door behind them

May 2, 2024

Resident Evil just got proper ray tracing, and it looks amazing

A path traced screenshot of Jill Valentine from Resident Evil 3

May 1, 2024

Get $250 off this HP Omen gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU

HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop, surrounded by a sunlit cloudscape

May 1, 2024

AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedived

May 1, 2024

AMD Radeon suffers blow as MSI shifts focus to Nvidia RTX GPUs instead

Apr 29, 2024

Steam Deck 2 release date estimate and latest news

Apr 29, 2024

HP Omen Transcend 14 review

HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop

Apr 26, 2024

Fallout 4 is still broken on Nvidia RTX GPUs because of one setting

Two sets of power armor, with one (right) wielding a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card

Apr 26, 2024

New AMD CPUs could make some graphics cards obsolete, hints specs leak

Two AMD CPUs, featuring owl emojis on their IHS with one (left) sporting a halo, against an orange background

Apr 25, 2024

Get AMD’s most powerful Radeon graphics card for its lowest ever price

A Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference design graphics card against a nebulous red background

Apr 24, 2024

Your next OLED gaming monitor could be both 1080p and 4K, thanks to LG

An LG UltraGear monitor, featuring a Dual-Mode OLED panel

Apr 24, 2024

Ray tracing performance will soon double in some Unreal Engine 5 games

Captain America (left) and Black Panther (right), as seen in the Unreal Engine 5.4 game, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra

Apr 24, 2024

New AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU series confirmed, thanks to Gigabyte

An AMD Ryzen processor, under a blue-green spotlight

Apr 24, 2024

New AMD Ryzen CPUs will have three types of core, according to leak

A series of AMD Ryzen processors, varying in size, against an orange background

Apr 23, 2024

Valve Certified Refurbished Steam Decks are back in stock, for now

A Steam Deck LCD, on a white grid-pattern cloth, with surrounding screwdrivers

Apr 22, 2024