Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best cheap SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
This Ryzen 7 9700X, GeForce RTX 5070 gaming PC is the cheapest I've seen this week, which might not stay that way for long
Deal PC prices are probably going to be rough while the tariff situation sorts itself out.
Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'
News 'Copilot in the workplace, Copilot at home is the future of the company.'
The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren't more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?
Magic 8 ball Any performance issues you have in TLOU2 aren't down to a lack of GPU memory
Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'
News The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope.
Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago
News Just because it's patented doesn't mean it'll ever be used but you never know.
Nvidia hasn't announced them yet but laptop vendors confirm that RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost here, and they'll both have 8 GB of VRAM
News A power-efficient RTX 5050 laptop could be the perfect entry-level gaming laptop.
With a quick BIOS flash and a spot of overclocking, one modder has got his RX 9070 to outperform the normally faster RX 9070 XT
News It's the Vega 56 days all over again.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered isn't perfect on PC but it's a million times better than Part 1
Fungal FPS Wave goodbye to VRAM and shader compilation problems but say hello to a major CPU workout.
Enter the glorious world of true HDR gaming with this massive 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor, now $710
Deal Once you've gone OLED for gaming, there's no going back.
The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
Happy birthday Radeon Futureproof features mean squat here and now.
AMD goes all-in on being a data centre designer by purchasing ZT Systems for $4.9 billion
News That's a lot of money but it's peanuts compared to how much cash AMD could rake in via AI.
Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today
news The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math.
Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
News And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.
Windows 11 now has a publicly available roadmap so you can get to see what forthcoming horrors or awesome features await you
News It's all about transparency, according to Microsoft.
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Best external hard drives in 2025: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming in 2025: The top ambidextrous and mirrored rodents for the southpaw PC gamer
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming
More VRAM please Ace is a bit wasted in Inzoi but it has huge potential in other genres.
If you've ever wanted to upgrade a laptop with 'modular AI units' then Compal might just have the very thing you're looking for
News No specs yet, I'm afraid. Or price. Or many details at all.
MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered
News A sign of change in the PSU market or just a one-off for a specific market?
The RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti are rumoured to be mere weeks away, with board partners reportedly required to ensure at least one MSRP model at launch
News Nobody ever leaks about stock levels, though.
