David Schroth
David Schroth is a gaming and PC hardware journalist who leads The FPS Review as its founder and editor in chief, focusing on how modern games run on real-world systems.
He is a computer hardware enthusiast who has been tinkering with components for 25 years and writing reviews for more than ten years, and that long hands-on history shapes a technical but plain-spoken style.
His coverage sits where game releases, PC performance, and detailed hardware specifications meet, turning hardware floors and storage demands into clear expectations for players and builders.
PC gaming hardware and performance
Schroth approaches gaming stories through the lens of PC hardware, using concrete component names and capacities rather than generalities.
He brings his review background to news pieces, treating GPUs, CPUs, memory, and storage as the real subjects and showing how each new title stresses those parts.
In his work on Gears of War: E-Day PC requirements, he anchors the story around the RTX 2060-class minimum and a mandatory 130GB SSD install, translating those specifications into implications for common mid-range gaming rigs.
Across his gaming beat, performance is the organising idea: the question is not only whether a game looks good, but what it demands from the hardware that drives it.
Game system requirements and compatibility
When publishers release official PC requirements for major titles, Schroth treats those lists as primary material and builds the story around them.
He breaks down minimum and suggested configurations into plain guidance, spelling out which classes of graphics cards and storage devices clear the bar and where upgrades become non-negotiable.
In covering Gears of War: E-Day, he centres the hardware floor on ray-tracing-capable GPUs like the RTX 2060 and the storage footprint of a 130GB SSD, making the cost in system resources as visible as the game itself.
This focus on compatibility gives his gaming coverage a practical edge, aimed at readers who need to know whether their current build will run a new release without surprises.
Editorial leadership at The FPS Review
As founder and editor in chief of The FPS Review, Schroth sets the editorial direction around detailed, hardware-aware coverage of games and PC components.
His decades of tinkering and years of review writing underpin a house style that favours measured descriptions, explicit part names, and clearly stated requirements over hype.
He steers the masthead toward stories that connect gaming experiences to the hardware that enables them, ensuring that both reviews and news maintain a consistent technical baseline.
That combination of editorial leadership and specialist hardware focus makes his byline a fit for stories that hinge on performance metrics, system requirements, and the realities of contemporary PC gaming setups.
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