Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Microsoft says 64 GB is the 'ideal spec' for Flight Simulator 2024 but I've tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference
All your RAM It's the first game I've tested where more than 32 GB is actually worth having.
Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark
news A speedy SSD makes all the difference but the Devil is in the details
Best RAM for gaming in 2024: 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.
OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough
news Not just tougher but brighter and more power efficient, too.
Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch
news Stop sniggering at the back, okay?
Best PC controllers in 2024: 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.
Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero review motherboard review
Arrow Lake Hero A near-perfect motherboard for any Arrow Lake processor but how much are you willing to pay for such excellence?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard performance analysis—decent frame rates and blessedly glitch-free
New Age Dragon It even looks pretty good on the lowest graphics settings, too.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl best graphics settings guide
Best Zone Settings Know how to prep your gaming PC before it heads into the Zone.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high
Zone Rays Upscaling is a must; even frame generation will be needed for many gaming PCs.
BioWare plays it totally safe with storytelling in Dragon Age: The Veilguard but there's one emotional gut punch that really got me
Gut punch The Veilguard paradox: how an unhappy thing makes me happy that there's an unhappy thing, but I'm still unhappy about it.
Due to export restrictions, Huawei has been forced to develop a weird hybrid SSD/tape storage drive for data archiving
news SSD speed with tape's low cost and reliability. A match made in heaven or the worst of both worlds?
Not that any PC gamer will care but Intel is lining up low-power Arrow Lake chips for launch in January
news Unless you want the bare minimum of heat coming from your PC, there's just no reason to consider getting one
Material scientists create a new compound that has a thermal resistance up to 72% lower than some of the best liquid metals
news It's been designed to help reduce the costs of cooling datacentres, not your average gaming PC though.
AMD's 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you've got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year
news Hopefully, this will mean a lot more vendors will offer AMD-based laptops next year, too.
Intel admits the Arrow Lake launch missed the mark and promises performance fixes by December, but my testing suggests you shouldn't get your hopes up
news The chances of some Windows and BIOS updates transform Core Ultra 200S chips into AMD beaters are going to be slim.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.
Red Dead Redemption appeared on consoles 14 years ago—here's the kind of gaming PC it could have been ported to back then
Red Dead PC So much has changed since then but one thing still remains true: the PC is the platform to enjoy gaming at its very best.
Some of AMD's next generation of laptop APUs will be absolute monsters at gaming, all thanks to the magic of 3D V-Cache
news Even workstation Threadripper uber-chips will be joining the cache party.
Early PlayStation 5 Pro shipments reveal some big upgrades over the original but that AMD GPU isn't quite what I was expecting
news RDNA 3? RDNA 2? Something in-between?
It's the end of an era: Nvidia replaces Intel in a key Dow Jones index, as Team Blue's fortunes tumble
news AMD has been in a worse situation but even it wasn't booted from the Dow Jones.
Microsoft's building data centres out of wood hoping we'll forget AI's made its carbon emissions 29% higher than when it pledged to go 'carbon negative' in 2020
news Well, they're not entirely made from wood and the computers certainly aren't, so there's still more scope for going totally carbon zero.
