Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Gigabyte's been autograph hunting with signatures from Jen-Hsun, Pat, and Lisa for some of its GPUs and motherboards
news We tried to write PC Gamer all over Gigabyte's Computex display but they shooed us away.
This RTX 4070 gaming PC is one of the cheapest I've seen, at a dollar shy of $1,150
deal That CPU and GPU combo is spot on and for the price, you can easily put up with the slow storage.
AMD is right about AI PCs being 'the biggest change in the PC form factor in the last decade' but it's not because of AI
It's not AI PC, it's just PC Good competition drives innovation and development, not fads and phrases.
ThunderX3 shows off two new gaming chairs, an update to one of the best gaming chairs you can buy and a funky-looking mesh model
news Best of all, the replacement for the brilliant ThunderX3 Smart is actually $100 cheaper.
Thanks to billionaires and businesses going mad for AI, Nvidia's market cap rockets past $3 trillion, pushing Apple into third place
news Microsoft is fractionally ahead and you guessed it—that's all down to AI, too.
Aerocool's budget CPU cooler looks like it was inspired by running a Founders Edition through a bandsaw
news It's a very clean and cool design, though, whatever the inspiration for it was.
Power your laptop, while capturing its video output, with Avermedia's new 100W GaN charger
news It's one seriously beefy charger but how many can claim to be a capture card too?
Capture up to 4K gaming footage from your Steam Deck with Avermedia's new X'Tra Go docking station
news No additional hardware is required, just an SD card for the dock.
Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts'
news NPUs in processors are all well and good, but not if they make them power-hungry.
Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang reflects on how AI already creates pixels and entire frames, before saying that 'games will be generated with AI'
news Meshes, textures, and even complete NPCs could soon be AI-generated on gaming PCs.
Hyte's updated Y70 PC case range, with more colours and a better touchscreen, looks pretty darn lovely
news It's about time we had more options, other than the ubiquitous black or white.
Sony's PSVR 2 virtual reality headset will get an adaptor for PCs this summer but its best features will remain exclusive to PlayStation
news Sony just doing Sony things in the Sony way, I guess.
Asus has ROG-ified its monstrous BE19000 Wi-Fi 7 router to be more Thargoid than ever before
news Ludicrous looks and speed, but I still kind of want one, no matter how pricey it is.
We've got our hands on AMD Strix Point and Granite Ridge, and they're both so pretty
news Has silicon ever looked so silky and sweet?
Are 16 cores in the new Ryzen 9950X sufficient for gaming? 'There's no physical reason we couldn't do more than 16 cores,' says AMD
news Hardware's not the barrier, it's all about software and having enough customers.
AMD promises AM5 socket life support through to 2027 and beyond
news It's got some way to beat the AM4 socket, which is still getting new chips, even now.
Peeking under the hood of AMD's Zen 5: Here's what has been changed and improved in the new CPU architecture
news Deceptively small updates to the CPU architecture combine to give the new processors a 16% bigger punch on average
AMD announces Zen 5 and the Ryzen 9000 series, with a 16% IPC uplift shipping in July
news League of Legends fans and Blender users could see over 20% more performance, compared to Zen 4
Today's GPUs are supremely capable and graphics in the latest games are utterly spectacular, so why do I not get the same wow factor that I got 26 years ago?
New World Blues It's no Brave New World for me but that doesn't mean it isn't for new travellers.
Super exclusive graphics cards, motion capture suits, and glasses for digital nomads are all winners in the 2024 Computex Best Choice Awards
news Given that AI was a big theme this year, there are surprisingly few AI-related items, which is a refreshing change.
Researchers have developed a type of flash memory storage that can withstand temperatures higher than the surface of Venus
news No gaming applications as such, but it could lead to tougher SSDs in your PC.
Invisible PC projects are ten a penny but this one is so good, I want all my rigs to be like this
news As with all great ideas, there are a few hiccups along the way, but the result is well worth it all.
Neolithic burial sites and now too much of the wrong soil type, Intel's new foundry in Germany isn't getting finished any time soon
news Chip fabrication plants aren't quick to build but Intel was surely hoping it would be well under way by now.
