Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Intel found a bug in its high-end CPU microcode is 'potentially contributing to instability' though 'is not the root cause' of those long-reported game crashes
news Our advice is to stick to using the default power and current settings until a complete fix is found.
Asus agrees to a whole raft of US warranty service improvements after it meets with Gamers Nexus
news Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath, so a very old saying goes.
Microsoft chickens out of rolling out Recall to all Copilot+ PCs, choosing instead to push the all-seeing AI tool out to Windows Insiders first
news So, not a total recall of Recall, then. Shame.
Retesting Ghost of Tsushima with a fresh Arc A770 shows that Intel has a mountain to climb to compete against AMD and Nvidia
Ghost of Arc But at least the latest game patch and AMD drivers mean RDNA 3 owners can fully enjoy the game now.
Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?
news Nearly two years on and there's still no sign of the two companies coming to an agreement.
MediaTek is aiming to do a Qualcomm and make Arm chips for Copilot+ PCs, targeting a 2025 release
news But does this mean the Nvidia collaboration is still on or has that gone the way of the dodo?
AMD's new Ryzen AI laptop chips aren't officially supported on Windows 10, thanks to its NPU and Copilot+
news But don't worry, Ryzen AI laptops should still run that operating system perfectly fine.
Fresh rumours claim Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell cards won't have a wider memory bus or more VRAM—apart from the RTX 5090
news Are we reaching the limits of GPU innovation or is it just a lack of serious competition? Place your bets now, folks.
Ryzen 9000 X3D chips could be with us by September, just three months after AMD's Zen 5 launch
news Only one source claiming this right now but Zen 5 appeared sooner than we expected, too.
Microsoft makes Recall an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
news Better security has been added too but does that matter when you now have the option to ignore a feature nobody asked for?
Powercolor's Edge AI aims to significantly reduce GPU power consumption without a big hit in frame rates
news It's very much a work in progress right now but the concept looks promising.
Microsoft details how its Automatic Super Resolution upscaler will benefit gamers with Copilot+ AI PCs
news It's not like FSR, DLSS, or XeSS and that's a good thing. It's also a bad thing.
AMD is 'working actively on really cool differentiators' to make the next generation of 3D V-cache 'even better'
news X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips won't be announced for a good while, though.
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.
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.
