Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
news It seems to be a better system than AMD's Privacy View feature but like all of them, it can't solve one key issue.
Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
news Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.
There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
news No prizes for guessing which vendor handles ray tracing the best.
SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
news Given the pace in NAND flash development, that's certainly not impossible, even the price.
Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
news A gaming PC with the fastest CPU, DDR5 RAM, and Gen5 SSD would be a massive bottleneck though, so there's no chance you could use this at home.
Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
news The change could be about boosting multithreading performance. Great news for content creators but not necessarily for gaming, unfortunately.
AMD's Zen 5 APUs are mighty on paper but could've been made mightier and AI is partly to blame
APU dreams It's a shame that we'll probably never get to see a truly massively capable APU but I'll never stop dreaming.
AMD's FSR 3.1 finally arrives, sporting an improved upscaler for less ghosting, flickering, and shimmering in games
news The frame generation algorithm is also now fully decoupled to allow older Nvidia RTX and Intel Arc cards to use it with their DLSS and XeSS upscalers.
DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed gaming mouse review
Take a DeathAdder V3 Pro, swap its hardware for something simpler, hack down the price and you've got a brilliant gaming mouse.
Scientists create a face for robots out of 'cultured human cells' and it's something that I wish I could unsee now
news That's not a smile, it's a grimace, cursing its existence and longing for the silence of dark eternity.
Ever wanted to rip open an NFC travel card to see how it all works? One engineer has done just that and it's way cooler than you'd think
news Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the 'processor' used is so small that it honestly beggars belief.
Grab your popcorn as Microsoft lands in hot water again with the EU for its 'insufficient' changes to how it bundles Teams
news There's a potential fine of up to $20 billion if the Commission finds Microsoft guilty of breaching antitrust laws.
MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance
news No amount of BIOS hacks will turn it back into a full-blown RTX 4090, though.
Corsair M75 Wireless gaming mouse review
Ambidextrous delight Righties and lefties rejoice! A wireless gaming mouse that's genuinely suitable for any hand.
'Devastating loss': Digital lending library, Internet Archive, removes 500,000 books after being sued by publishers
new It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books.
LG brings tandem OLED panels to laptops, claiming three times the brightness and double the lifespan of current self-emissive screens
news The new display is also claimed to be 40% thinner, 28% lighter, and up to 40% lower power consumption than existing OLED panels. Crikey.
The first technical deep dive of the Zen 5 architecture is here, with preliminary benchmarks supporting AMD's IPC claims
news It looks like AMD's new laptop cores are going to be quite a bit less capable than their desktop counterparts, though.
Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
Scarlet Stutter The persistent stutter issue is elusive, and some systems won't see it at all, but Elden Ring on at least one of my testing PC is still full of scarlet rot.
Hackers claim to have carried off an enormous data heist on AMD, selling info on employee and customer information, future products and specs
news Remember folks, nothing is 100% secure when you store it via a remote service.
Intel clarifies what BIOS settings 13th/14th Gen CPUs should be used for power and current
news No fix for the instability issue yet but using the right settings will certainly help.
XFX's new Magnetic Air graphics cards let you hot-swap fans, solving the apparent plague of fan hub axle separation. What do you mean you've never heard of it?
news Forget the fancy fans, though, as XFX is using PTM7950 for the thermal interface. Praise be!
This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia
news Fan-favourite Karlach looks a tad pixel-y but it's a brilliant achievement.
Intel found a bug in its high-end CPU microcode is 'potentially contributing to instability' though 'is not the root cause' of those long-reported game crashes
news Our advice is to stick to using the default power and current settings until a complete fix is found.
