How we test
Weeks of real play, one score scale, and verdicts that name who should buy and who should skip.
We play on it first
Every product goes into our normal setup and stays there. A headset gets long sessions and voice chat, a mouse gets shooters and a full workday, a monitor gets fast games, dark scenes and spreadsheets. We write down what we see, hear and measure as we go, so each claim in a review points back to something that happened during testing.
The score
Scores run from 0 to 10 with one decimal. They compare a product with others in the same category at a similar price, so an 8.4 budget mouse and an 8.4 flagship mouse are both good buys for different people.
- S tier, 9.0 and up: the one we would hand a friend without a second thought.
- A tier, 8.0 to 8.9: excellent, with a flaw that matters to some buyers.
- B tier, 6.5 to 7.9: fine for the right person, but a rival does more for the money.
- C tier, below 6.5: we would skip it, and the verdict says what to buy instead.
Prices and specs
Prices are the maker's own list price on the day we published. Specs come from the maker and are checked against the unit we tested where we can. When something changes after publication, we update the review and note the correction at the end.
Pictures
We use our own captures and the maker's official images, shown as they are: no recolouring, no mock-ups. Captions say what each picture shows.
Every scored review sits in the rankings, sorted by score.