Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review
Total Zen AMD has taken its Ryzen 9 9950X and given it some 3D V-Cache lovin'. Oh hell yeah.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
Rendering creed Bringing history to life and then killing it with a hidden blade. Or bugs.
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.
The best 1 TB gaming SSD you can buy is now just $79, the cheapest it's been for a good while
Deal SSD prices haven't changed much for a long time so this deal is very welcome.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite motherboard review
A bit too lite Lite in name but not lite in features. Sadly, not lite in price, either.
MSI pulls its MSRP RTX 50-series cards from its online store, not that we ever saw any of them in stock
news 'Look at me. I am the scalper now.'
Broadcom and Nvidia are claimed to be testing manufacturing on Intel's 18A process node, and even AMD is reportedly interested
news Intel 18A is said to be as good as forthcoming TSMC N2.
It Takes Two follow-up Split Fiction's system requirements are here, and it's verified for Steam Deck and potato-PCs alike
news Mind you, the hardware requirements do ramp up at high graphics settings.
Windows 10, 32 GB of RAM, and the RTX 4060 all surge to the top spot in the Steam Hardware Survey, seemingly due to a huge influx of Chinese-language user data
news Devil, details, and all that jazz.
While everyone's getting all excited or angry about all these new GPUs, I'd just like to remind everyone that graphics settings exist
Settings for all And that means your old graphics card is likely perfectly fine.
Thermal Grizzly TG Putty review
Putty problems I wanted cooler VRAM chips in my graphics card but now they're stone cold.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Best PC settings for graphics and performance
Hunting frames You'll need to use upscaling and frame generation to get the biggest gains, but there are other tweaks worth using.
AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X is the cheapest it's ever been, apart from yesterday, when it was four cents cheaper
Deal I mean, really? Was there any need to bump up the price by four little pennies?
Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks
Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-8400 CUDIMM review
Wasted potential Ultra fast, ultra shiny, ultra expensive.
Bad news for portable Monster Hunter Wilds hopefuls: the Steam Deck can't manage 30 fps, even in maximum potato mode
Underpowered The Steam Deck just can't handle this monster.
One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can't wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews
news And the results are entirely unsurprising.
AMD's 'official' performance figures for RDNA 4 leak out early, with the RX 9070 XT claimed to be 42% faster than the RX 7900 GRE at 4K
news And compared to the RX 6900 XT, AMD's forthcoming GPU is over 50% quicker. Frame rate zoomies are incoming.
The curious tale of the missing eight: Some Nvidia RTX 50-series cards are shipping with missing ROPs in the GPU, Nvidia says only 0.5% of all cards are affected
news Blackwell is rapidly becoming Lackwell, if you ask me.
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.
Instead of shelling out for an RTX 5070, grab yourself an entire RTX 4070 gaming PC for $1,200 instead
Deal Not that I'm expecting RTX 5070s to cost this much. Heavens above, I hope not.
