Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
I'm going to build my very own multi-billion dollar chip fab at home with this awesome Lego kit
news Anyone got a friend who works at ASML...?
Intel's Arc graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey just as I'm getting genuinely excited about the new Battlemage B580 card
news Dare we hope for some real competition for Nvidia?
If the rumour that AMD's RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I'm buying six of 'em
news This has got to be too good to be true, right?
Intel's new second-gen XeSS 2 upscaling tech with Frame Generation matches Nvidia's DLSS for features and might have the edge on AMD's FSR
news More feature-complete than AMD's FSR and competitive with Nvidia DLSS.
Intel launches new Arc B580 GPU with 10% more performance than an RTX 4060 for $249 but the rumoured RTX 4070-beater is nowhere to be seen
news Faster than an RTX 4060, but is it too little too late?
I've reviewed pretty much every OLED gaming monitor known to humankind and these are by far my favourite Cyber Monday OLED deals
Deal Size matters, or should that be resolution or aspect ratio?
These three Black Friday ultrawide gaming monitor deals are utter bargains for about $250 a pop and make OLEDs look slightly silly
Deal All the gaming monitor you need, and then some.
This Lenovo RTX 4070 Ti Super machine we were championing has now gone out of stock, but we've found a better Alienware alternative
Deal It's all about the GPU.
If it's an RTX 4080 gaming laptop you crave more than anything this Black Friday, MSI's $1,729 rig is as cheap as it currently gets
Deal Predictably, the rest of the spec is more tolerable than desirable.
Upcoming Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU rumoured to have fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 4070 Super
News Here's hoping Nvidia has clocked the twangers off it.
LG's stellar 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor is probably the best on the market and just hit its lowest ever price for Black Friday
Deal Keeps on getting cheaper...
Best ultrawide monitor for gaming: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers
Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.
Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU specs have supposedly leaked and I'm not sure if I'm excited or exasperated
News It'll probably come down to money, it always comes down to money...
Qualcomm reckons it will be flogging $4 billion worth of PC CPUs annually by 2029 which is about what AMD sold in 2023
News Will that be extra CPUs sold, or will it come at the expense of AMD and Intel?
Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too
News You'll have to see this video to believe it...
AMD rumoured to be ditching future RDNA 5 graphics architecture in favour of 'unified' UDNA tech in a possible effort to bring AI smarts to gaming ASAP
News Whether this is semantics or something more meaningful remains to be seen.
BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX gaming monitor review
Mini-LED madness A megabucks mini-LED monitor that doesn't really make sense
I've found this 34-inch ultrawide 144Hz gaming panel for just $199 and it's all the monitor you actually need for ridiculously little money
Deal So cheap, I dare you not to buy it.
MSI responds to reports of 9800X3D CPUs 'burning out' in its motherboards but the problem seems limited for now
News A batch of dodgy sockets or just maybe user error?
Qualcomm upgrades its gaming upscaler from spatial to temporal tech but it lacks AI smarts and may struggle to compete with Nvidia's highly polished DLSS performance
News Lots of work to do for Qualcomm, but you gotta start somewhere.
AMD is firing 4% of its global workforce as it realigns in likely pursuit of all those AI dollars
News Is this the one metric where Intel beats AMD...?
Microsoft's Xbox boss upgrades rumoured gaming handheld device from a hope to an 'expectation' but says it's years away from release
News Will it be powered by AMD, Intel or even Nvidia?
New MIT study shows what you already knew about AI: it doesn't actually understand anything
News It's just very good at putting one word after another...
