About SpecPicks — PC Hardware Research, Spec Comparisons & Buying Guides

What we do

We maintain a catalog of over 159,000 products sourced from Amazon and eBay, enriched with specification data, pricing history, and ratings. We publish buying guides, head-to-head comparisons, and category overviews so you can answer questions like "what's the best GPU for 1440p under $500" or "which Voodoo5 5500 drivers actually work on Windows XP" without digging through a dozen forum threads.

How we pick products

Our rankings combine customer ratings, review volume, price-to-feature fit, and category-specific validation rules — a graphics card that doesn't match the GPU keyword fingerprint never shows up in our "Best GPUs" guide. We flag anything we can't verify. Every product listing links out to the retailer (Amazon or eBay) so you buy directly from them.

Read our full review methodology →

Editorial team

SpecPicks editorial content is produced by a small team of PC hardware specialists covering modern gaming hardware, retro computing, and local AI inference rigs. Our picks are based on community benchmarks, manufacturer specifications, user review aggregation, and publicly available performance data — not independent first-party lab testing.

• Mike Perry — Founder and editor-in-chief. 15+ years building and benchmarking PC hardware, with a focus on GPU performance across gaming, rendering, and local-LLM inference workloads. Uses an RTX 5090 to reproduce and cross-validate community AI-inference benchmarks from r/LocalLLaMA and public tok/s reports. Previously active contributor on Tom's Hardware forums and Reddit's r/buildapc.
• J. Callahan — Retro computing specialist. 20 years collecting and restoring period-correct hardware from the AGP/PCI-X era: Voodoo, GeForce 1–4, Radeon 8500–9800 Pro. Covers driver archaeology, Win98SE/XP compatibility guides, and CRT upscaling. Known on r/retrogaming for the annual "AGP roundup" posts.

Article bylines link to author profile pages where available. Our methodology page documents how we synthesise benchmark sources and rank products across each category.

How we make money

SpecPicks participates in the Amazon Associates and eBay Partner Network affiliate programs. When you click a "View on Amazon" or "View on eBay" button and buy something, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue pays for the catalog, hosting, and the people who write the guides. See our full affiliate disclosure for details.

Editorial independence

We do not accept payment for favourable reviews or guaranteed rankings. Sponsored content, when it appears, is clearly labelled. Our category rules and ranking logic are deterministic — we don't hand-tune the order of products in a guide to please any retailer.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or partnership inquiries: see the contact page. For privacy / data requests, see our privacy policy.