Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's all about availability. Well, that and price. Oh, and performance. Maybe some better upscaling, too. You get the idea...

Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems
By Jeremy Laird published
News Proof, not that it was needed, that you should always do a clean driver wipe before a new GPU install.

Microsoft nixes details of its Windows 11 TPM 2.0 security bypass though there are still other ways of getting the latest OS on 'unsupported' hardware
By Jeremy Laird published
News BTW, Windows 10 support is ending shortly, too.

Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
By Jeremy Laird published
News If Verstappen doesn't bother with motion rigs, maybe you don't need to either.

AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are officially arriving in 'early March' and they'll need to be stellar to rescue the company's nosediving gaming graphics division
By Jeremy Laird published
News Help us RDNA 4, you're our only hope.

Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
By Jeremy Laird published
News The PC isn't all about the latest tech.

'We launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud' reveals senior Nvidia suit reminiscing on the troubled launch of Nvidia's first RTX GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News If RTX 20 series gains were negligible, what about RTX 50 GPUs?

AI may move at the speed of light but Nvidia's machine learning model for frame generation took 6 years to develop
By Jeremy Laird published
News Turns out not all AI tech is dreamt up in a few weeks.

'Put them on the slides': How Jensen Huang invented and then announced Nvidia's DLSS AI upscaling tech in just two weeks
By Jeremy Laird published
News The surprising and yet unsurprising story of how Nvidia's AI-powered upscaling came to be.

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
By Jeremy Laird last updated
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.

Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $7,000
By Jeremy Laird published
news Ummm, think I'll wait and try for one at MSRP, thanks.

Best CPU for gaming: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer
By Jeremy Laird published
news Official replacement parts plus repair guides should keep those peripherals going.

OpenAI's Operator is your new autonomous AI assistant ready to do your biding across the web
By Jeremy Laird published
news But will it have ideas of its own?

Quad-slot prototype enabled Nvidia to achieve 'mission impossible' with RTX 5090 GPU's dual-slot cooler
By Jeremy Laird published
news Deep-dive video on the design of the RTX 5090's cooler is a great watch.

Best 4K gaming monitors: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.

Trump likes the idea of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok but thinks the US government should get half of the social media app in the bargain
By Jeremy Laird published
news Government ownership of big tech seems like an odd stance for an avowed businessman.

If you thought PCIe Gen 5 SSDs were a little pointless, don't worry, here comes 32 GB's worth of Gen 6 technology
By Jeremy Laird published
news 30 GB/s-plus of bandwidth, but for what?

Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake allegedly spotted and can't come soon enough
By Jeremy Laird published
news Successor to the underwhelming Arrow Lake CPU spotted.

RTX 5090 prototype GPU with 24,576 cores reportedly leaks hinting at possible 800 W 5090 Ti or Titan monster
By Jeremy Laird published
news Witness the power of this fully operational GB202 chip.
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