Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

Surely not again: Worrying analysis shows Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card may be prone to melting power connectors
By Jeremy Laird last updated
News After the melting RTX 4090 debacle, surely Nvidia is all over this stuff?

Man who chucked $750 million of bitcoin into a dump now wants to buy the whole dump
By Jeremy Laird published
News A parable for the ages.

What we want from RDNA 4: PCG hardware team reveals hopes and dreams for AMD's next gaming graphics card
By Jeremy Laird published
News Price, price, price, FSR, price, price, price, ray tracing?

AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE gaming monitor review
By Jeremy Laird published
280 Hz on the cheap High-refresh gaming on the cheap

AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's all about availability. Well, that and price. Oh, and performance. Maybe some better upscaling, too. You get the idea...

Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems
By Jeremy Laird published
News Proof, not that it was needed, that you should always do a clean driver wipe before a new GPU install.

Microsoft nixes details of its Windows 11 TPM 2.0 security bypass though there are still other ways of getting the latest OS on 'unsupported' hardware
By Jeremy Laird published
News BTW, Windows 10 support is ending shortly, too.

Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
By Jeremy Laird published
News If Verstappen doesn't bother with motion rigs, maybe you don't need to either.

AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are officially arriving in 'early March' and they'll need to be stellar to rescue the company's nosediving gaming graphics division
By Jeremy Laird published
News Help us RDNA 4, you're our only hope.

Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
By Jeremy Laird published
News The PC isn't all about the latest tech.

'We launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud' reveals senior Nvidia suit reminiscing on the troubled launch of Nvidia's first RTX GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News If RTX 20 series gains were negligible, what about RTX 50 GPUs?

AI may move at the speed of light but Nvidia's machine learning model for frame generation took 6 years to develop
By Jeremy Laird published
News Turns out not all AI tech is dreamt up in a few weeks.

'Put them on the slides': How Jensen Huang invented and then announced Nvidia's DLSS AI upscaling tech in just two weeks
By Jeremy Laird published
News The surprising and yet unsurprising story of how Nvidia's AI-powered upscaling came to be.

It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel might give Arrow Lake a polish in the meantime, but that'll be it.

Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia
By Jeremy Laird published
News Another day, another Intel GPU cancellation.

Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake won't be pure 18A, it seems... but at least it'll have some 18A compute.

New Intel Battlemage graphics cards spotted but they may not be the cut-price RTX 4070 killers we're all desperate for
By Jeremy Laird published
News G31, G31, where for art thou, G31?

Forget DeepSeek R1, apparently it's now Alibaba that has the most powerful, the cheapest, the most everything-est chatbot
By Jeremy Laird published
News Better than GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1, allegedly.

Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
By Jeremy Laird published
News The catch is that it's only really fast enough to serve one user with semi-useful gibberish at a time.

Intel's modular designs could make your next laptop last longer, but probably won't deliver the holy grail of cheap GPU upgrades
By Jeremy Laird published
News And how about a shout out for Framework?

If Trump's new threat of massive 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan comes true an RTX 5090 for $2,000 will seem cheap
By Jeremy Laird published
News How about an RTX 5080 for $2,000....?

Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $7,000
By Jeremy Laird published
news Ummm, think I'll wait and try for one at MSRP, thanks.

Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer
By Jeremy Laird published
news Official replacement parts plus repair guides should keep those peripherals going.
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