Latest articles by Nick Evanson
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.
It's not for PC gamers but Razer's new AI QA Copilot could ultimately benefit every PC gamer out there, and it's looking like it could be a killer app that AI needs right now
news And there's a good chance that it becomes an example of AI improving someone's job, not replacing it.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: 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.
I honestly thought Razer's Sensa haptics stuff was just a gimmick until I tried it with a sim racing setup, and now I'm absolutely sold
news At the very least, it's great for the blood circulation in your glutes.
Nvidia's expanded Zorah demo tells us how AI is the future of graphics: 'There's no rasterization going on at all. This is all ray traced and the amazing part is that it's actually faster than rasterizing'
news And it's faster because of AI, natch.
AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia are all excited about cooperative vectors and what they mean for the future of 3D graphics, but it's going to be a good while before we really see their impact
news And it's not just because the technology is brand new.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows PC performance analysis: Ray tracing, upscaling, and frame generation are all optional, but only two of them are worth using, though not the ones you might think
FPS in the shadows Assassin's Creed is back with epic vistas, pretty graphics, and so-so performance. Same old, same old.
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.
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.
