Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: 'Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level'
news The first chip to be made on Intel's 18A node is on target for release later this year.
AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other
news And not just once, either.
This Swedish 'gamer' puffer jacket has pockets so big you can jam a full-sized keyboard and laptop in them because why not?
News You'll need to be very careful how you sit down in a car or on the bus.
Microsoft plans on investing $80,000,000,000 in AI this year, with no sign of the machine learning spending spree stalling just yet
news More money for more servers and coders. Probably more money for Copilot and Recall too, sadly.
Corsair rolls out its first CUDIMM memory sticks for Intel Arrow Lake gaming PCs and they're as pricey as you'd expect them to be
news If you're rocking an AMD setup though, G.Skill reckons it has the perfect RAM for you.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.
Alan Wake 2 set such a high technical bar last year that few games in 2024 came anywhere near, but it wasn't all abject disappointment
Year of the patch A year of great games and some great graphics, but far too much not-so-great performance.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2024
Gear of the year Last-gen doesn't mean last place as some of the best motherboards of 2024 ably demonstrate.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2024
Gear of the year AMD wins, no matter what. But which chip?
Out of all the new PC hardware in 2024, my top choice is technically over two years old. Even though it was new
Gear of the year Does that make it old-new or new-old?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming SSD of 2024
Gear of the year Big, little, or just plain portable, which SSD will take the crown this year.
Intel reveals the four fails of Arrow Lake in a new blog post, promising more performance fixes in January
news Too little, too late or just what the doctor ordered?
Critical metals for electronic components and gadgets jump in price, as China's trade restrictions with the US begin to bite
news Gallium, germanium, and antimony are all vital to the semiconductor industry.
Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers
news Do you want moderate, good, or excellent?
All of today's mighty CPUs owe a debt of gratitude to the Intel 8080, which just turned 50
news I bet Intel would love some of Mr Faggin's engineering magic right now.
Nvidia's corporate blog goes full fan mode with its description of Jen-Hsun Huang: 'Tech Leader, AI Visionary, Endlessly Curious'
news Good to know that Jen-Hsun will be wearing his leather jacket at CES 2025. Along with this unwavering vision, if you were worried about it wavering.
OpenAI claims Elon Musk 'demanded absolute control, and to be CEO' while also agreeing to ditch its non-profit status back in 2017, despite him now suing it for turning decidedly for-profit
news It's not just a case of 'he said, she said': OpenAI has released DMs and emails about the whole thing.
Shipping document suggests that a 24 GB version of Intel's Arc B580 graphics card could be heading to market, though not for gaming
news AI setups love RAM and matrix cores, so a stack of big VRAM B580s would be snapped up.
The next version of HDMI is said to launch at CES 2025, with 'a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates' and a new cable
news HDMI 2.1 is good enough for 4K 240 Hz so goodness knows what 2.2 will be bringing to the table.
It's the end of an era: Crucial starts calling time on its popular SATA SSD, the MX500
news Was it a good SSD? No. It was the best.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
Best external hard drives
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
