Latest articles by Nick Evanson
It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
news Two P-cores are all you're getting, but they're speedy little things, so it's not as awful as you might think.
Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
news Not that anyone needed a reminder but once again, open-source licencing is to thank for all of this.
Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
news All while TSMC enjoys a market cap just shy of one trillion dollars.
At just $850, this is the best budget RTX 4050 gaming laptop I've seen in a very long time
deal Nvidia's little RTX chip is perfect for 1080p gaming and a great match for the speedy AMD Ryzen inside.
Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
news The move has stumped the scientific community as there's no obvious reason for it.
An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
news Another 1.5 billion passwords have just been added to the RockYou dataset, all harvested in only three years.
Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
news Excuse me while I whip this out. Now any of y'all kind folks got a monitor and mouse handy?
Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
news It seems to be a better system than AMD's Privacy View feature but like all of them, it can't solve one key issue.
Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
news Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.
There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
news No prizes for guessing which vendor handles ray tracing the best.
SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
news Given the pace in NAND flash development, that's certainly not impossible, even the price.
It's not often you find an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000. Well, today's your lucky day
deal High-end gaming PCs should be all about the GPU so it's only right that you should be getting Nvidia's 2nd fastest one.
Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
news A gaming PC with the fastest CPU, DDR5 RAM, and Gen5 SSD would be a massive bottleneck though, so there's no chance you could use this at home.
Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
news The change could be about boosting multithreading performance. Great news for content creators but not necessarily for gaming, unfortunately.
AMD's Zen 5 APUs are mighty on paper but could've been made mightier and AI is partly to blame
APU dreams It's a shame that we'll probably never get to see a truly massively capable APU but I'll never stop dreaming.
AMD's FSR 3.1 finally arrives, sporting an improved upscaler for less ghosting, flickering, and shimmering in games
news The frame generation algorithm is also now fully decoupled to allow older Nvidia RTX and Intel Arc cards to use it with their DLSS and XeSS upscalers.
DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed gaming mouse review
Take a DeathAdder V3 Pro, swap its hardware for something simpler, hack down the price and you've got a brilliant gaming mouse.
With or without DRAM, both of these super fast 2 TB SSDs are great value for money at just 7 cents per GB
deal With the perfect balance of price tag and performance, you can't go wrong with either of these Lexar SSDs.
Scientists create a face for robots out of 'cultured human cells' and it's something that I wish I could unsee now
news That's not a smile, it's a grimace, cursing its existence and longing for the silence of dark eternity.
Ever wanted to rip open an NFC travel card to see how it all works? One engineer has done just that and it's way cooler than you'd think
news Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the 'processor' used is so small that it honestly beggars belief.
Grab your popcorn as Microsoft lands in hot water again with the EU for its 'insufficient' changes to how it bundles Teams
news There's a potential fine of up to $20 billion if the Commission finds Microsoft guilty of breaching antitrust laws.
MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance
news No amount of BIOS hacks will turn it back into a full-blown RTX 4090, though.
Corsair M75 Wireless gaming mouse review
Ambidextrous delight Righties and lefties rejoice! A wireless gaming mouse that's genuinely suitable for any hand.
