Latest articles by Nick Evanson
What a difference a year makes: Nvidia's RTX 40-series share of the Steam Hardware Survey is 80% larger than this time last year but its last-gen RTX chips still rule the roost
news RDNA 2 chips are AMD's best performer, outstripping all the rest of Team Red's GPUs combined.
Horizon Zero Dawn's fresh remaster is the best way to enjoy the game, even on handheld gaming PCs
New Dawn The new version is way better looking, with more options to make it run silky smooth.
Intel's Arrow Lake chips aren't winning any awards for gaming performance but I think its new E-cores deserve a gold star
E's alright E-cores are rubbish, yes? Not anymore.
Red Dead Redemption may still look like a 14-year-old game, but it's absolutely brilliant on handheld gaming PCs
Red Dead Finally It was a hell of a long time to wait, though.
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K review
Baby Arrow Arrow Lake squares up to Raptor Lake and Zen 5 in the battle for the budget CPU crown.
UK prime minister reckons new laws will help publishers fight back against unapproved AI data scraping
news 'This landmark legislation will help rebalance the relationship between online platforms and those, such as publishers, who rely on them.'
AMD drops a possible hint about how AI could be used in its next-gen upscaler package, FSR 4
news Does this mean RDNA 4 GPUs will have dedicated hardware for this stuff? Possibly.
No matter what gaming PC you have, you should disable DoF, motion blur, and vignette in Dragon Age: The Veilguard before changing any other setting
Someone somewhere must like the effects because why else would developers still include them?
Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'
news In plain speak: it's making better use of your PC's hardware, and it's really working for me.
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all making AI systems that will run your PC for you, doing online tasks like filling out forms, research, and even a spot of shopping
news Wall-E isn't a film, it's a prophecy.
If you're getting a new Intel Arrow Lake chip, don't bother splashing out on super-fast RAM
RAM for the Arrow What gains there are just isn't worth the extra cost.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K review
Tip of the arrow Designed by Intel. Made by TSMC. A match made in heaven?
Building a new gaming PC with an Nvidia graphics card? This 750 W PSU is an ideal match and costs less than $70
Deal And if you want a bit more power headroom, the 850 W version is just $14 more.
Asus China's general manager shows off the deep details of Intel's Arrow Lake chips in new reveal
News There can't be many top managers as cool as Ordinary Uncle Tony.
Intel and Samsung plan to join foundry forces to combat TSMC says a major Korean newspaper
News It's unlikely that we'll see an Intel-designed, Samsung-made CPU in a gaming PC any time soon, though.
Fake online reviews and false testimonials are now banned by America's FTC
News The new rules also apply to ungrounded legal, physical threats, and other forms of intimidation to suppress negative customer reviews.
This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
News If you're keen on logging your logs, then the Throne might be just up your alley.
The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it
News The few that had already bought one will get their money back, at least.
Channel your inner Professor X by turning your gaming chair into Cerebro with this strap-on 7.1.2 surround sound speaker
News It might just help you to sit better in your chair and avoid the dreaded 'gamer hunch', too.
Load up on games with this huge 4 TB SSD, at less than $0.05 per GB
Deal It's not the fastest out there but you're getting a massive amount of storage for the money
The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be
Alas, the technique won't work with microchips but there are other ways to peek inside those.
The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
News AMD is in a position where it can charge whatever it likes for its golden gaming goose.
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
News Has there ever been a major Windows update that hasn't messed up something somewhere?
