Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Haunted printers turning on by themselves and printing nonsense has to be one of my favorite Windows 11 bugs ever
News Though this is one Windows 11 update you might want to avoid if you're not into the whole horror vibe.
New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa
News It's not supported by every game, but it does increase your options.
Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027
News We've got a feeling the handheld could look rather familiar...
Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
News And if you can actually buy the darned thing...
AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
News The great unknown? Yup, you guessed it, tariffs.
'Don't despair' says AMD to PC gamers as it continues to 'encourage' AIBs to supply MSRP-priced 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs
news That sounds 'encouraging', but will it be enough?
Nvidia denies reports that the 'missing ROPs' debacle is hitting its RTX 50 laptop GPUs and could delay their launch
News Missing ROPs in laptops categorically denied, but then Nvidia denied the RTX 5080 was missing ROPs...
Lenovo's clever solar-powered laptop can turn 20 minutes of sunlight into an hour of video playback but sun-powered mobile gaming still isn't a goer
News The catch? It's still a concept, for now...
Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
News Are these the cards that will really be available?
Alienware launches two new OLED gaming monitors and one of them is its cheapest yet at $550
News 27-inch is the cheap one but the 34-inch ultrawide looks like the pick
It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast
News If you spot an MSRP-priced GPU in the next few days, jump on it!
This DIY 'infinite contrast' screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage
News Why does it take a DIY YouTube channel to show how to do local dimming right?
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X
news A new chip is all very well, but how about making the first one work properly.
TSMC and Trump announce massive $100 billion investment in the US including 3 new fabs but it's reasonable to ponder whether it will actually happen
News Taiwanese government emphasises that TSMC's most 'advanced processes' won't be moving Stateside
Nvidia's long-awaited Arm-based chip for PCs reportedly spotted running Geekbench very badly
news The numbers looks horrible but it doesn't mean much, for now.
TSMC takes 'chip binning' to a whole new level as entire wafer 'found in a dumpster'
News Anyone know how to slice it up into GPUs?
AMD prices its new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs at $549 and $599 and we're very excited
news But also a little annoyed...
New leak claims AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT GPU hits over 3.2 GHz and could be an overclocking beast
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
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?
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
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
News Please go away, sorry, use our online 'support'.
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
