Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
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.
Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks
Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-8400 CUDIMM review
Wasted potential Ultra fast, ultra shiny, ultra expensive.
Bad news for portable Monster Hunter Wilds hopefuls: the Steam Deck can't manage 30 fps, even in maximum potato mode
Underpowered The Steam Deck just can't handle this monster.
One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can't wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews
news And the results are entirely unsurprising.
AMD's 'official' performance figures for RDNA 4 leak out early, with the RX 9070 XT claimed to be 42% faster than the RX 7900 GRE at 4K
news And compared to the RX 6900 XT, AMD's forthcoming GPU is over 50% quicker. Frame rate zoomies are incoming.
The curious tale of the missing eight: Some Nvidia RTX 50-series cards are shipping with missing ROPs in the GPU, Nvidia says only 0.5% of all cards are affected
news Blackwell is rapidly becoming Lackwell, if you ask me.
Best external hard drives in 2025: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Best CPU for gaming: 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.
Having spent many hours testing Avowed I've found these three top tips are the best way to boost the game's performance
Tweaking Eora It's not just monsters, beasts, and the undead that can give you trouble in Eora.
About darn time: Microsoft says it has fixed the annoying lag in Windows Explorer when working with cloud-based files
news It's been my biggest bugbear with OneDrive for ruddy ages.
Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console
news Poke ogre with a stick. Turn to page 23. You died.
GPUs powering AI will probably be the end of us all but at least they're being used to find small city smashing asteroids before they do
news Ten metres might not sound very big but just imagine dropping one on your toes.
Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors
news I know, I know. Rumours. They're just rumours. BUT I WANT IT!
