Latest articles by Nick Evanson
AMD's launched a pair of new budget chips in its 8000-series, lopping the GPUs of its APUs
news One looks like it could be the bargain CPU of 2024. The other...err...sadly not.
Leaked Dell roadmap introduces split Intel/Qualcomm lineup through to Nova Lake in 2027
news Four Lakes and a second-gen X Elite in just three years means it's all going to get very confusing, very quickly.
AMD Linux devs jamming nearly 24,000 lines of RDNA 4 supporting code into its mainstream driver suggests next-gen launch may be close at hand
news Mesa mega merge means a magnificent moment may manifest…err…soon.
Nvidia testing cooling solutions up to 600W for its Blackwell graphics cards suggests power levels in line with the previous GeForce generations
news Looks like RTX super-chonk coolers are chonk for life. Or one more generation, at least.
MediaTek and Nvidia are gearing up to tackle the AI PC market hand-in-hand, with an all-new chip
news It's like the 1990s golden age all over again when you had more than two CPU vendors to choose from.
The best thing about Homeworld 3 is how well it runs on a PC with its 6-year-old recommended specs
Golden oldie What's this, a new game that doesn't demand the latest hardware? Praise be!
Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates
The frame rate of space Even old CPUs will run it well enough, provided they can handle six or more threads.
Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD 'boldly suggests' AM4 has 'legendary status'
Legend Few other CPU sockets have lasted as long or supported as many chips as this one, but its history isn't entirely free of hiccups.
ROG Ally mod adds an extra touchscreen for more Windows real estate and works as a handy stand
news Plus it gives the added feeling of some serious Nintendo DS vibes.
One boutique keyboard maker spent years engineering the ultimate stabilizer by 'recklessly training a personal cash bazooka on the question'
news John Wick level of focus, commitment, and sheer will just to get the perfect keyboard clack.
Laptops are selling like hot cakes compared to desktops but generally CPU shipments are sluggish
news Even shipments of server CPUs were down but it's not as bad news as you might think it is.
Homeworld 3's latest system requirements won't fill up your SSD but you'll need all the CPU and GPU you can throw at it
news Though a Ryzen 9 7700X an RTX 4070 Ti Super, for ray traced space battles in 4K, isn't too bad.
Gigabyte G6X (2024) gaming laptop review
Like a G6(X) Intel Core i7 13650HX | RTX 4060 (105W) | 32GB DDR5-4800 | 1TB SSD | $1,300 | £1,198 (16GB)
Self-taught hardware engineer discovers that GPUs really are ridiculously complex and hard to design after all
news The project is available online if you fancy giving it a go yourself.
Coffee and PC gaming ground together in perfect harmony, in this fabulous Scandi wood-sauna-themed build
news Every Nerdforge project makes me miss my engineering days and this could be the one to make me start all over again.
AMD's start to 2024: Big gains in client and data center, big falls in gaming
news Data, AI, and compute are where all the money is at right now.
PCIe 5.0 is nearly four years old and it's still virtually worthless in gaming PCs
PCIe progress pains Gen 4 stuff is not only cheaper, it's also better. Now that's progress for you.
I watched the first Autonomous Racing League event and while it certainly wasn't exciting, it was unintentionally hilarious
news Will it ever be exciting to what a bunch of AIs race against each other? Place your bets now.
Suffering so you don't have to, this streamer has doubled up on haptic suits to feel the real pain of Skyrim VR
news I'm so bad at VR games that I'd be permanently on the floor, whimpering like a scared puppy.
Early benchmark suggests Intel's Battlemage GPU in Lunar Lake has lots of low-power promise
news But it's still too soon to tell if it'll be any good at gaming.
Intel points at motherboard vendors for recent CPU instability issues but the chip maker isn't entirely blame-free
news That Spider-Man meme is probably the simplest way to describe the whole debacle.
NASA manages to fix Voyager's garbled data problem, even though it's more than 15 billion miles away
news With hardware older than an Atari 2600, it's amazing Voyager 1 is still even running, let alone sending gobbledegook.
RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware
news Don't expect major changes to the architecture, as that's been all kept for RDNA 4.
