Joe Shields

Joe Shields

Staff Writer, Components

Joe has been playing with computers since the early 1980s with a Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80. After college in the late 90s/early 2000s, he built his first custom PC and got into modding, overclocking, and eventually extreme overclocking, competing at Hwbot.org. Joe started writing around 2010 for Overclockers.com, covering the latest news and reviews that include video cards, motherboards, storage, and processors. In 2018, he went ‘pro’ writing for Anandtech.com, covering news and motherboards. Eventually, he landed here at Tom’s Hardware, where he writes news, covers graphics card reviews, and currently writes motherboard reviews. If you can’t find him benchmarking and gathering data, Joe can be found working on his website (Overclockers.com), supporting his two kids in athletics, hanging out with his wife, catching up on Game of Thrones, watching sports (Go Browns/Guardians/Cavs/Buckeyes!), or playing PUBG on PC.

Articles by: Joe Shields

Navi Goes Mainstream, Mobile: AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 Aims for Smooth 1080p Gaming

By Joe Shields published

AMD’s Navi GPU architecture gets more affordable with the RX 5500, and will land in gaming laptops as well. But power consumption might be a problem.

MSI's Alpha 15 Laptop: First With AMD RX 5500M Graphics

By Joe Shields published

Alongside the AMD Radeon 5500 series graphics, MSI today announced the Alpha 15 laptop, the first with an RX 5500M GPU.

Cooler Master Unveils ELV8 GPU Brace: Video Card Support, RGB too!

By Joe Shields published

Cooler Master unveils the ELV8 GPU brace designed to support video cards and add some RGB bling to your chassis

Alphacool Debuts RGB Water Blocks for 5700, 5700 XT Graphics Cards

By Joe Shields published

Alphacool's Aurora Plexi GPX Eisblock water blocks include RGB lighting and were designed for Powercolor Red Devil, Sapphire Nitro+ and MSI Gaming X GPUs.

Adata XPG SX8100 M.2 SSD Features PCIe 3.0 x4, SLC and DRAM Caching

By Joe Shields published

Adata has detailed a new M.2 drive, the SX8100, using PCIe 3.0 x4 and NVMe 1.3 protocols with speeds up to 3500/3000 MB/s reads and writes.

Fujifilm Won't Let Tape Storage Die: New LTO-8 Cartridges with 12TB/30TB capacity, 750 MBps Transfer Rate

By Joe Shields published

Fujifilm announces the availability of the LTO 8 Ultrium data cartridge with a capacity of 12TB/30TB (compressed/uncompressed) and increased speeds.

Acer Unveils Predator PowerGem: Claims Thermal Pad Boosts CPU Performance by Over 12%

By Joe Shields published

Acer reveals a new thermal pad that is claims allows 77% more power envelope and boosts CPU performance by over 12%.

Antec Striker Open-Air PC Case Displays Your GPU up Front

By Joe Shields published

Antec released an open-air Mini-ITX chassis with the GPU mount in front and tempered glass panels designed to handle water-cooled small form factor builds.

Gigabyte X570-I Aorus Pro Wi-Fi Review: Ryzen 3 ITX on the Cheap

By Joe Shields published

Editor's Choice

With two M.2 slots, good performance, Wi-Fi and USB-C Gen2, at a price that undercuts the competition, this ITX board is easy to recommend for SFF Ryzen 3 builders.

Lian Li, EKWB Launch 011D Distribution Plate: Res, Routing and Pump in One

By Joe Shields published

Lian Li and EKWB release a distribution plate for its OD11 and OD11 XL chassis for ease of watercooling installation.

Phanteks Announces Glacier Aorus Xtreme Kit and Two New CPU Blocks

By Joe Shields published

Phanteks announces watercooling kit for Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme motherboard and new blocks for AM4 and 2011-v3/115x sockets.

be quiet! Adds White Option to Shadow Wings 2 Fan Series

By Joe Shields published

be quiet! announced the white version of its quiet line of Shadow Wings 2 fans. The new fans come in 120mm and 140 sizes and will be available in about a month.

ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Review: Full-Featured, Compact

By Joe Shields published

Editor's Choice

Noctua's New Look: All-Black Line of CPU Coolers Slated for Q4

By Joe Shields published

Noctua has again teased the public with a short video showing off its all-black Chromax line of CPU and fans.

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro Wi-Fi Review: Well-Rounded Value

By Joe Shields published

Editor's Choice

With an impressive set of features, including front-and-rear Gen2 USB options and Wi-Fi 6, plus attractive looks, this $270 X570 board from Gigabyte is worthy of serious consideration.

G.Skill KM360 $50 Mechanical Keyboard Has Cherry MX Red Keys, Zero RGB

By Joe Shields published

G.Skill releases the KM360, an 87-key tenkeyless mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Keys and white LED backlighting for $49.99.

Corsair Releases K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard: New Capellix LEDs, Brighter and Longer Battery Life

By Joe Shields published

Corsair has released the K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard, It includes the bright Capellix RGB LEDs and a long battery life with Slipstream wireless technology.

Biostar Racing X570GT8 Motherboard Review: Affordable M.2 Excess

By Joe Shields published

For those looking for lots of M.2 support on a budget, the Biostar X570GT8 is easy to recommend. Just note that there’s no Wi-Fi here. And our overclocking experience wasn’t the best.

Antec Releases NX400 Mid-Tower Gaming Chassis: $65, Tempered Glass with aRGB

By Joe Shields published

Antec releases the NX400 mid-tower gaming chassis with aRGB front panel and rear fan, tempered glass, and plenty of room for larger parts inside.

Turtle Beach Unveils Elite Atlas Aero Wireless Gaming Headset Before Gamescom 2019

By Joe Shields published

Turtle Beach unveils Elite Atlas Aero Wireless Gaming Headset and Edge Audio Enhancer adding to its Atlas lineup.

Alphacool Rolls Out Its Disco Ball Reservoir, Eisball

By Joe Shields published

Alphacool Releases the Eisball reservoir. A ball-shaped design with RGB LEDs gives it a truly unique look inside a case.

EK Releases Leak Tester: A Quicker Way To Test For Leaks In Your Loop

By Joe Shields published

EK releases the EK-Leak Tester, a device designed to quickly test for leaks in a custom liquid cooling loop.

EVGA Precision X1's Latest Update Adds "Boost Lock" Feature

By Joe Shields published

EVGA Precision X1's latest update adds a boost lock feature which holds the clock speeds at a static value.

Biostar Goes Small(er) With Racing X570GT Micro-ATX Motherboard

By Joe Shields published

Biostar Launches a Micro ATX motherboard in the X570GT supporting the latest Ryzen 3000 series processors and PCIe 4.0.

Silicon Lottery Launches Binned AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs

By Joe Shields published

Silicon Lottery launches binned AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs in the market and sees the beginning of the end for their business.

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