Joe Shields

Joe Shields

Motherboard Reviewer

Joe has been playing with computer 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 at here at Tom’s Hardware where he wrote news, covered graphic 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

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.

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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.

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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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Bitspower Lotan VGA Water Blocks Cool RTX Cards With Colorful Style

By Joe Shields published

Bitspower launches the Lotan VGA water block designed for Nvidia's RTX graphics cards, including the Super lineup.

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AMD X570 vs. Intel Z390 Chipset: Which Mainstream Platform Is Better?

By Joe Shields published

We’ve pitted AMD’s X470 chipset against Intel’s Z390 in the past. Now that AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs have arrived, alongside a new X570, it’s time for a chipset rematch.

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HyperX Announces Cloud Stinger Wireless Gaming Headset: Sub $100

By Joe Shields published

Hyper X Launches the first wireless gaming headset, the Cloud Stinger, for under $100.

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ID-Cooling Announces IS-50X: 130W, Low Profile CPU Cooler

By Joe Shields published

ID-Cooling Announces a 130W TDP capable low profile CPU cooler, the IS-50X.

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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i9-9900K: Which CPU Is Better?

By Joe Shields published

We pit AMD’s new 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X flagship CPU against Intel’s 8-core Core i9-9900K. Can Zen 2 beat Intel’s current top-end mainstream chip?

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Asus TUF H310M Plus Gaming Motherboard Review: The Basics, Plus RGB

By Joe Shields published

Asus’ TUF H310M-Plus Gaming delivers a robust design, some RGB lighting, and a feature set that should cover most users at an attractive sub-$80 price point.

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ASRock H310M-G/M.2 Motherboard Review: Solid, but a Little Expensive

By Joe Shields published

This Micro-ATX H310 motherboard from ASRock delivers the basics and well-rounded design, but it’s a little expensive for what you get.

How To Enable Bluetooth in Windows 10

By Joe Shields published

We’ll walk you through two easy ways to enable Bluetooth on your PC when using Windows 10.

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How To Set a Default Printer in Windows 10

By Joe Shields published

We’ll walk you through how to set your default printer in Windows 10 and make sure it sticks.

How to Boot Windows 10 in Safe Mode

By Joe Shields published

We’ll walk you through three ways to start your Windows 10 PC in Safe Mode.

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MSI H310M Gaming Plus Motherboard Review: Affordable Basics

By Joe Shields published

MSI’s $75 / £68 Micro-ATX H310M Gaming Plus offers users a mostly well-equipped solution for those on a tight build budget who don’t not plan on overclocking.

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LG's 1ms Response Time IPS Gaming Monitors Are a First

By Joe Shields published

LG's UltraGear Nano IPS monitor lineup will be available for pre-order next month.

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PCIe 4.0 Benchmark Coming to 3DMark Test Suite

By Joe Shields published

UL adds PCIe Features Test to its 3DMark benchmarking suite to measure available bandwidth to the GPU over the PCIe interface.

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BenQ Zowie XL2731 Monitor Offers eSports Gamers 144 Hz, 1080p TN

By Joe Shields published

BenQ Zowie announces a 27-inch e-Sports monitor in the XL2731. A 1080p TN based panel with 144 Hz response time and 1ms GTG.

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G.Skill Breaks 23 Overclocking Records: Reaches DDR4-5886 at Computex 2019

By Joe Shields published

G.Skill breaks a slew of overclocking records en route to reaching DDR4-5886 Using their Trident Z Royal Memory.

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Razer Releases the Kraken X: 250 Gram Headset for All-Day Gaming

By Joe Shields published

Razer has announced the availability of the Kraken X, a lightweight headset using memory foam ear cushions with glasses-friendly channels.

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Seagate Brings 16TB Home/NAS and Data Center HDDs to Market

By Joe Shields published

Seagate releases the Exos 16, IronWolf and Iron Wolf Pro 16TB hard drives to market using TDMR technology.

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Deepcool Unveils Castle EX Line of AIOs at Computex 2019

By Joe Shields published

Deepcool showed off its new Castle EX line of TR4-compatible AIOs that feature the same anti-leak technology treatment found in the RGB line.

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Gigabyte Shows Off Six Aorus X570 Boards for Ryzen 3000 CPUs

By Joe Shields published

Gigabyte shows off six X570 boards for Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, covering the 'entry level' up to the flagship X570 Aorus Xtreme with all the bells and whistles.

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Team Group Impresses at Computex With Liquid-Cooled M.2 SSD, Slick RGB Devices

By Joe Shields published

Team Group went all in on RGBs with new memory, flash drives, and external drive cases at Computex, as well as liquid-cooling a PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD.

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