Latest articles by Nick Evanson
We've got our hands on AMD Strix Point and Granite Ridge, and they're both so pretty
news Has silicon ever looked so silky and sweet?
Are 16 cores in the new Ryzen 9950X sufficient for gaming? 'There's no physical reason we couldn't do more than 16 cores,' says AMD
news Hardware's not the barrier, it's all about software and having enough customers.
AMD promises AM5 socket life support through to 2027 and beyond
news It's got some way to beat the AM4 socket, which is still getting new chips, even now.
Peeking under the hood of AMD's Zen 5: Here's what has been changed and improved in the new CPU architecture
news Deceptively small updates to the CPU architecture combine to give the new processors a 16% bigger punch on average
AMD announces Zen 5 and the Ryzen 9000 series, with a 16% IPC uplift shipping in July
news League of Legends fans and Blender users could see over 20% more performance, compared to Zen 4
Today's GPUs are supremely capable and graphics in the latest games are utterly spectacular, so why do I not get the same wow factor that I got 26 years ago?
New World Blues It's no Brave New World for me but that doesn't mean it isn't for new travellers.
Super exclusive graphics cards, motion capture suits, and glasses for digital nomads are all winners in the 2024 Computex Best Choice Awards
news Given that AI was a big theme this year, there are surprisingly few AI-related items, which is a refreshing change.
Researchers have developed a type of flash memory storage that can withstand temperatures higher than the surface of Venus
news No gaming applications as such, but it could lead to tougher SSDs in your PC.
Invisible PC projects are ten a penny but this one is so good, I want all my rigs to be like this
news As with all great ideas, there are a few hiccups along the way, but the result is well worth it all.
Neolithic burial sites and now too much of the wrong soil type, Intel's new foundry in Germany isn't getting finished any time soon
news Chip fabrication plants aren't quick to build but Intel was surely hoping it would be well under way by now.
Despite being older than the PC, magnetic tape storage is far from dead, in fact it's growing with 153,000,000 terabytes of the fragile stuff shipped in 2023
news Though it's still less than the amount of HDD storage shipped in just three months.
Windows 11's new 'AI' Recall feature has been cracked to work without a fancy new NPU
news If seven TOPs of AI power are enough for Recall, what's the point of an NPU?
This year's 24H2 Windows 11 update will wave goodbye to Cortana, WordPad, Steps Recorder, and more
news I'm off to write F in WordPad and save it in a rich text file for posterity
Gaming PCs and components look set to jump in price in the US as import tariff exclusions come to an end
news Certain graphics cards, motherboards, and even PC cases could rise by as much as 25% in price.
Secretlab is asking the question: Can you be a true Warhammer 40k fan if you don't have a purity seal on your gaming chair?
news Secretlab has just the thing to showcase your faith to the Emporer.
DDR6 looks set to double data speeds over DDR5, with DDR6-21000 being the ultimate target
news Development is still ongoing so don't expect to see it any time soon, though.
A USB stick that will hold your precious data for 200 years, what's the catch? Er... it only holds 8kB
news Your login details for Steam can now live longer than you. And probably longer than Valve.
Microsoft's auto AI upscaler will only be available on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ AI PCs to begin with
news And narrowing down its scope even further, it'll only work on a very small number of games.
Ghost of Tsushima PC performance analysis: Your CPU will be fine, your GPU will whine, but there are settings for every gamer out there
Ghosting Your GPU Unless you happen to own an Intel Arc graphics card. You're out of luck, I'm afraid.
The messy DisplayPort 2.1 specs mean you could be limited to a monitor cable too short to be of any use if you want to hit 4K at 240 Hz
news The devil is in the details, as the saying goes, but also in the wiring in this case.
AMD Zen 6 could deliver a full 32-core chiplet, with Zen 5c reportedly set to offer its own 16-core CCX
news Server-market EPYC models will see the most cores, but desktop Ryzens could get a bump too.
Ubisoft's XDefiant system requirements are so low that even a manky old potato will run the game
news Po-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a GPU.
Sony's Ghost of Tsushima has actual g-g-g-ghosts when it comes to Intel's Arc GPUs
news Horror looks you right between the eyes, you're paralyzed because this is Alchemist.
