Articles by Paul Henningsen

System Builder Marathon Q1 2015: Budget Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 24 February 15

This quarter, value-oriented builder Paul Henningsen benefits from a more generous budget that lets him explore faster host processors and graphics cards. Can he put the extra money to good use?

System Builder Marathon Q4 2014: Budget Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 26 December 14

System Builder Marathon Q3 2014: Budget Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 23 September 14

System Builder Marathon, Q2 2014: Our Budget Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 24 June 14

System Builder Marathon, Q1 2014: The $750 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 26 March 14

System Builder Marathon, Q4 2013: $800 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 26 December 13

System Builder Marathon, Q3 2013: $350 Bonus Entry-Level PC

By Paul Henningsen published 27 September 13

System Builder Marathon, Q3 2013: $650 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 23 September 13

AMD's Piledriver And K10 CPU Architectures Face Off

By Paul Henningsen published 19 August 13

Vishera, Deneb, Trinity, and Propus are code names for some of AMD's most value-oriented processor configurations from the past couple of generations. We get our hands on several models to compare in productivity, content creation, and gaming workloads.

System Builder Marathon, Q2 2013: The $400 Spirit Of Mini-ITX

By Paul Henningsen published 27 June 13

System Builder Marathon, Q2 2013: $650 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 17 June 13

Is This Even Fair? Budget Ivy Bridge Takes On Core 2 Duo And Quad

By Paul Henningsen published 6 May 13

Reader requests affect much of the work we do, and we constantly receive email asking for this one: compare Intel's older Wolfdale- and Yorkfield-based designs against today's budget-friendly Ivy Bridge-based processors. Well, you asked, and we deliver.

System Builder Marathon, Q1 2013: $600 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 26 February 13

System Builder Marathon, Q4 2012: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 4 December 12

System Builder Marathon, August 2012: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 20 August 12

System Builder Marathon, June 2012: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 7 June 12

System Builder Marathon, March 2012: $650 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 26 March 12

System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: $600 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 21 December 11

System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2011: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 22 September 11

System Builder Marathon, June 2011: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 23 June 11

System Builder Marathon, March 2011: $500 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 25 March 11

System Builder Marathon, December 2010: $500 PC

By Paul Henningsen published 17 December 10

System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2010: $400 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 8 September 10

Part 4: Building A Balanced Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 11 August 10

What does it mean to build a truly-balanced PC? How great would it be to piece together a machine bottlenecked by neither CPU or GPU? We set forth to measure the perfect balance in seven different games and four resolutions in this fourth of many parts.

System Builder Marathon, June 2010: $550 Gaming PC

By Paul Henningsen published 17 June 10