Olivia Blackwell

6+ years gaming hardware journalism, background in electrical engineering, maintains widely-cited PC build guides across multiple budget tiers

Olivia Blackwell reviews gaming hardware the way automotive journalists review cars — with benchmarks, thermal cameras, and a deeply held belief that marketing specifications often lie. She covers GPUs, gaming monitors, mechanical keyboards, controllers, and the endless parade of RGB-lit peripherals that claim to improve your K/D ratio. Olivia's background in electrical engineering gives her evaluations a technical depth that most gaming hardware coverage lacks, and she is not afraid to call out a manufacturer for shipping drivers that tank performance. She also maintains a continuously updated PC build guide across three budget tiers and has strong opinions about cable management that her colleagues have learned not to challenge.