FAQ

Every guide follows the same five steps: shortlist the products genuinely worth considering this quarter, pull performance data for each from established, independently verifiable sources, compare each option against its direct competitors rather than its own marketing, check what each actually costs at retail right now, then weigh performance against price for a stated use case and name one winner with the trade-offs spelled out. The full version is on our methodology page.

No, and we do not claim to. We are not an independent test lab — buying every card, running it for weeks and controlling for every variable is a multi-million-pound operation. We work from the published data of the labs and reviewers who do run that testing, cross-referenced against real current retail pricing. Where a product has genuinely been handled in person, the guide says so explicitly; where it has not, it does not imply otherwise.

A score is our editorial judgement on a 0–5 scale, not a measured lab result. Where a guide shows a breakdown, the overall figure is a weighted average of four criteria: performance, value for money, build quality, and features. Performance and value carry the most weight, because for most buyers they decide the recommendation. A guide with no score simply has not been scored — we would rather leave it blank than publish a number we cannot defend.

Hardware and pricing move constantly, so guides are revisited as parts launch, get discontinued or get repriced. Any article that has been revised shows an “Updated” date in its masthead alongside the original publication date, so you can see how current it is before you trust it.

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No. A pick is chosen on performance against price for the stated use case, and commission rates play no part in that decision. We also do not accept payment for placement or coverage. If a piece is ever sponsored, it carries a permanent “Sponsored” label and is excluded from our winner, shortlist and comparison components entirely — a paid post can never be presented as the site’s independently-argued pick.

Because a link to a store that will not ship to you, priced in the wrong currency, is useless. We use your approximate country — derived from your IP address at the moment you click — to send you to the closest regional Amazon store. We do not store that location or attach it to you afterwards.

Tell us which article and what changed — that is the single most useful message you can send us. Prices and availability move constantly, and manufacturers revise spec pages without notice. Use the contact form and pick “A correction to a guide”.

Yes. A short note on what makes it relevant to a specific guide is far more likely to get somewhere than a general pitch. We do not accept payment for coverage, so the only thing that gets a product considered is whether it would genuinely change the recommendation.

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