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

AMD prices its new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs at $549 and $599 and we're very excited
By Jeremy Laird published
news But also a little annoyed...

Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
By Jeremy Laird last updated
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

New leak claims AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT GPU hits over 3.2 GHz and could be an overclocking beast
By Jeremy Laird published
news Could overclocking be the saviour of this generation of GPUs?

After a year-long effort to get a QD-OLED monitor to burn in, one tester's results are better than you might expect but not quite perfect
By Jeremy Laird published
News How it will fare in future is hard to say.

Newsflash: Intel's all-important 18A node is officially 'ready' but what exactly happened to the 'five nodes in four years' thing?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ready for customers, but what about the PC?

'A massive, massive moment of wow.' Microsoft CEO predicts AI-generated games are a 'CGI moment' for the industry
By Jeremy Laird published
news Nadella also says the company wants to be in gaming for gaming's sake: "Flight Simulator was a product long before we even built Windows."

If you ever got the feeling a customer support line is intentionally keeping you on hold in the hope you'll go away it turns out the HP is doing precisely that with a minimum 15 wait
By Jeremy Laird published
News Please go away, sorry, use our online 'support'.

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
By Dave James last updated
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.

Black Myth: Wukong said to single-handedly boost monitor sales in 2024 as gamers predicted to buy 2.8 million OLED monitors in 2025
By Jeremy Laird published
News 2025 expected to be another big year for OLED gaming.

Intel engineer begs management and Trump to not 'sell out' to TSMC just as the company is set to regain its 'technical lead' in chip manufacturing
By Jeremy Laird published
News An impassioned plea which was predictably deleted.

Trump flirts with 25% and 'substantially higher' tariffs on all computer chips
By Jeremy Laird published
News Exactly when, and really if at all, nobody knows but the President.

Best CPU for gaming: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Meta announces plans for epic new undersea data cable longer than the circumference of the Earth
By Jeremy Laird published
News Around the Earth in 31,000 miles...

OLED monitor market set to grow from just $75 million in 2022 to $1 billion in 2025 as LG commits to much brighter gaming OLEDs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Will your next gaming monitor be OLED?

LG's new 45-inch 5K2K uber OLED monitor goes into mass production and will land soon on a desk near you. For $2,000
By Jeremy Laird published
News Huge size, decent pixel density, OLED tech, what's not to like?

TSMC now said not to be eyeing up Intel's fabs while other rumours suggest Intel could be split between TSMC and Broadcom
By Jeremy Laird published
News Place your bets, basically, but something's probably afoot.

MSI MPG 272URX gaming monitor review
By Jeremy Laird published
4th Gen QD-OLED Our first look at a 27-inch monitor with 4th Gen 4K OLED tech.

Arm reportedly plans to make its own CPUs from this summer with future chips said to be powering a revolutionary Jony Ive-designed AI device
By Jeremy Laird published
News Spare a thought for poor old x86.

AOC Agon Pro AG276FK gaming monitor review
By Jeremy Laird published
Hz so good When speed matters more than absolutely everything else.

Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything
By Jeremy Laird published
News Next week, cats and dogs living together.

Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU officially goes on sale February 20 and the RTX 5070 is go for March 5
By Jeremy Laird published
News So, the 5070 has indeed been delayed a little.

Zotac beats those dastardly GPU scalpers by selling RTX 50-series graphics cards to actual gamers courtesy of their Discord channel
By Jeremy Laird published
News So long as it's not just using this as a way to fluff its engagement numbers, and really is putting GPUs in the hands of loyal customers, we're here for it.
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