Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Just to cap off Intel's annus horribilis, Time picks AMD's Dr Lisa Su as its CEO of the year
news Definitely a better choice than last year's pick, that's for sure.
Raspberry's Pi 500 is the perfect throwback to the 1980s golden age of home computing and I'd love to relive those moments again with a modern machine
news Best of all, there's not a single cassette tape in sight.
AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute
news It's not much to go on but at this point in time, I'll take it.
Google's WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a 'septillion years' is meaningless
news Not that you'd be adding one to your gaming PC, sadly. Or any PC, for that matter.
Intel researchers create a method for AI-generating frames in games without added input latency
news It's the holy grail of AI frame generation: extrapolation, not interpolation.
FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat
news The true cost of generative AI is the erosion of trust.
Arctic's new fan-cooled fans might be for servers but I want a gaming rig full of them for the ultimate cooling kudos
news That and total hearing loss. Say what?
Ubisoft has fixed some of the issues with Avatar, Outlaws and the Windows 11 24H2 update, but the big three Assassin's Creed are still borked
News No 24H2 for you if Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla are installed. And vice versa.
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: 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?
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.
