Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero review motherboard review
Arrow Lake Hero A near-perfect motherboard for any Arrow Lake processor but how much are you willing to pay for such excellence?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard performance analysis—decent frame rates and blessedly glitch-free
New Age Dragon It even looks pretty good on the lowest graphics settings, too.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl best graphics settings guide
Best Zone Settings Know how to prep your gaming PC before it heads into the Zone.
This could end up being one of the best Black Friday gaming monitor deals as MSI's gorgeous 4K OLED is the cheapest it's ever been
Deal $700 for such pixel perfection is an absolute bargain.
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.
Blacklyte Kraken gaming chair review
Painful perch Naming a gaming chair after a beast from the depths of the ocean is rather prophetic in this instance.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high
Zone Rays Upscaling is a must; even frame generation will be needed for many gaming PCs.
Here's what you need to know about Newegg and Best Buy's Black Friday price promises
Black Friday Price Guide We've dug through all the small print, so you don't have to.
Best CPU for gaming in 2024: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
BioWare plays it totally safe with storytelling in Dragon Age: The Veilguard but there's one emotional gut punch that really got me
Gut punch The Veilguard paradox: how an unhappy thing makes me happy that there's an unhappy thing, but I'm still unhappy about it.
Blacklyte Atlas review
Rising RGB Imitating a Secretlab desk and then charging more money for it? Bold move, Cotton.
Due to export restrictions, Huawei has been forced to develop a weird hybrid SSD/tape storage drive for data archiving
news SSD speed with tape's low cost and reliability. A match made in heaven or the worst of both worlds?
Not that any PC gamer will care but Intel is lining up low-power Arrow Lake chips for launch in January
news Unless you want the bare minimum of heat coming from your PC, there's just no reason to consider getting one
Material scientists create a new compound that has a thermal resistance up to 72% lower than some of the best liquid metals
news It's been designed to help reduce the costs of cooling datacentres, not your average gaming PC though.
AMD's 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you've got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year
news Hopefully, this will mean a lot more vendors will offer AMD-based laptops next year, too.
Intel admits the Arrow Lake launch missed the mark and promises performance fixes by December, but my testing suggests you shouldn't get your hopes up
news The chances of some Windows and BIOS updates transform Core Ultra 200S chips into AMD beaters are going to be slim.
Best PC controllers in 2024: 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.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.
Red Dead Redemption appeared on consoles 14 years ago—here's the kind of gaming PC it could have been ported to back then
Red Dead PC So much has changed since then but one thing still remains true: the PC is the platform to enjoy gaming at its very best.
Some of AMD's next generation of laptop APUs will be absolute monsters at gaming, all thanks to the magic of 3D V-Cache
news Even workstation Threadripper uber-chips will be joining the cache party.
Early PlayStation 5 Pro shipments reveal some big upgrades over the original but that AMD GPU isn't quite what I was expecting
news RDNA 3? RDNA 2? Something in-between?
It's the end of an era: Nvidia replaces Intel in a key Dow Jones index, as Team Blue's fortunes tumble
news AMD has been in a worse situation but even it wasn't booted from the Dow Jones.
Microsoft's building data centres out of wood hoping we'll forget AI's made its carbon emissions 29% higher than when it pledged to go 'carbon negative' in 2020
news Well, they're not entirely made from wood and the computers certainly aren't, so there's still more scope for going totally carbon zero.
