Latest articles by Nick Evanson
The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
News AMD is in a position where it can charge whatever it likes for its golden gaming goose.
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
News Has there ever been a major Windows update that hasn't messed up something somewhere?
Excess stock and poor SSD sales look set to pull flash memory prices down by up to 10%
news It's the same old story, folks.
'As far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.' Nvidia's CEO praises Elon Musk for a 'superhuman' feat
news Naturally, the fact that X has bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of GPUs has nothing to do with such praise. No siree.
'Correctness comes first. Performance improves next.' Fedora Asahi Remix project brings Windows PC gaming to Apple silicon Macs
news That's great news for Mac owners and potentially PC owners, too.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Pining for more USB Type-C ports on your motherboard? ASRock's solution is a wee bit extreme
news Just one or two Type-A ports around the back would be nice, though.
Nvidia might be considering using sockets for its next AI mega GPUs but that's not going to happen with its GeForce graphics cards
news For once, it looks like Nvidia is taking a leaf from AMD's book on how to do chips.
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard review
USB overload With more ports than a shipping hub, MSI's new X870 motherboard is one for the USB enthusiast.
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
Mobo making It's more machines than humans but people are still at the heart of making sure it's all good.
Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.
Zen 5 revisited: Testing what a new BIOS and Windows update does for AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips
Once again zen Ryzen 5 and 7 models get more power and all of them get better OS support. Good news, right?
'It's certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we'd like it'—Corsair CEO on its Fanatec acquisition
news Fanatec was in a total mess but it looks like Corsair is planning to fix it all.
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel
news The real magic is that the chip has to emulate another old chip to manage the feat.
The new Unity 6 game engine demo looks spectacular but is it enough to convince developers to return?
news Professional game makers care very much about how Unity operates as a business these days.
OpenAI's CEO vision of humanity's AI-powered glorious future: 'Fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics'
news Some of you may be unemployed in the future but it's a sacrifice that AI is willing to make.
MSI's new top-end PSU boasts two 12V-2x6 sockets for twin GPUs, or just one really, really big one
news I don't need a PSU that can handle 1200 W worth of GPUs but I do kinda want one.
If Nvidia couldn't buy Arm, then Qualcomm's rumoured Intel buyout isn't going to happen either
news For the mobile chip firm, the only thing Intel has of worth right now are x86 licenses.
Samsung and TSMC have been eyeballing the Middle East for new locations to build chip factories, says WSJ
news Don't get too excited; this is probably just about having even more AI stuff.
Intel was in the running to make the PlayStation 6 APU but lost out to AMD due to disputes over profit margins, report claims
news It's alleged that the contract was worth a cool $30 billion, which Intel could really do with right now.
Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components
news Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic.
AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet
news Now, how long will Intel take to get in on the frame gen action?
Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros
news And just time in time for all the new motherboards, it even uses USB4 for 3 GB/s data transfers. Crikey.
