Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Save up to $80 on one of AMD's best RDNA 3 GPUs, thanks to these Prime Day graphics card deals
Prime Day deals Whether you game at 1080p, 1440p, or 4K, there's a GPU just for you.
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
Grab a pre-Prime Day deal with this fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for just $160
deal It'll be hard to find a better deal in the sales next week.
I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
Mobo making It's more machines than humans but people are still at the heart of making sure it's all good.
Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.
Zen 5 revisited: Testing what a new BIOS and Windows update does for AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips
Once again zen Ryzen 5 and 7 models get more power and all of them get better OS support. Good news, right?
Blazing speed or top value-for-money? Take your pick with these two great SSD deals
deal SSD prices are still all over the place at the moment but you can snap up some genuine bargains.
'It's certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we'd like it'—Corsair CEO on its Fanatec acquisition
news Fanatec was in a total mess but it looks like Corsair is planning to fix it all.
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel
news The real magic is that the chip has to emulate another old chip to manage the feat.
The new Unity 6 game engine demo looks spectacular but is it enough to convince developers to return?
news Professional game makers care very much about how Unity operates as a business these days.
OpenAI's CEO vision of humanity's AI-powered glorious future: 'Fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics'
news Some of you may be unemployed in the future but it's a sacrifice that AI is willing to make.
MSI's new top-end PSU boasts two 12V-2x6 sockets for twin GPUs, or just one really, really big one
news I don't need a PSU that can handle 1200 W worth of GPUs but I do kinda want one.
If Nvidia couldn't buy Arm, then Qualcomm's rumoured Intel buyout isn't going to happen either
news For the mobile chip firm, the only thing Intel has of worth right now are x86 licenses.
Samsung and TSMC have been eyeballing the Middle East for new locations to build chip factories, says WSJ
news Don't get too excited; this is probably just about having even more AI stuff.
Intel was in the running to make the PlayStation 6 APU but lost out to AMD due to disputes over profit margins, report claims
news It's alleged that the contract was worth a cool $30 billion, which Intel could really do with right now.
Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components
news Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic.
AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet
news Now, how long will Intel take to get in on the frame gen action?
Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros
news And just time in time for all the new motherboards, it even uses USB4 for 3 GB/s data transfers. Crikey.
US Dept of Justice claims Google 'corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control'
news The antitrust trial has only just started but the DoJ is already aiming for Google's ad tech jugular
DRAM or DRAM-less? Whichever you pick, these are two great 2 TB gaming SSD deals
deal DRAM-equipped SSDs have the best outright performance but cost a little more. So do you save and go slower, or spend and go blazing?
Ray tracing has taken its first steps at becoming the rendering norm for triple-A games but that just makes upscaling and frame generation a Hobson's choice
No choice It's not an option if you absolutely require it.
The PS5 Pro is the most powerful games console ever released, but at $700 PC gaming has nothing to worry about
news Big GPU, fast ray tracing, AI-powered upscaling. Hang on, that's just a PC, right?
Watching Doom being played on a hologram-like volumetric display is like taking a peek at the future of gaming
news But let's hope the future involves less noise and more pixels, yes?
