Alan has been writing about PC tech since before 3D graphics cards existed, and still vividly recalls having to fight with MS-DOS just to get games to load. He fondly remembers the killer combo of a Matrox Millenium and 3dfx Voodoo, and seeing Lara Croft in 3D for the first time. He's very glad hardware has advanced as much as it has though, and is particularly happy when putting the latest M.2 NVMe SSDs, AMD processors, and laptops through their paces. He has a long-lasting Magic: The Gathering obsession but limits this to MTG Arena these days.
Latest articles by Alan Dexter

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News Rumours suggest up to 10 new AMD Ryzen chips will land in April.

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Cutting-edge Razer takes equal parts Intel Alder Lake CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU to make for a potent laptop brew.

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Is Aerith, the APU in the Steam Deck, cramped by the constraints of the handheld?

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Grrr There's a bear in there.

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Ask PC Gamer You don't have to limit your PC gaming to a desk.

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News Integrated graphics have never looked so promising.

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News Chip crisis? What chip crisis?

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News Can your machine run it at the top settings? Now you can easily see.

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Lost fps Give yourself the edge in the latest MMO ARPG.

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News They're still too expensive, but at least the pricing is heading in the right direction.

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News It's not the most elegant solution you'll ever see.

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News You can change the texture quality and sharpness too.

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News Treat DirectX 11 like the stumbling undead and kick it off a roof.

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Braaains Get the edge on the undead by tweaking your settings for peak parkour performance.

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Ask PCG Looking at the causes and solutions for frame pacing problems.

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News Could this be a sign that AMD's gamble has paid off?

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News Another new card that's terrible for cryptocurrency mining—hopefully this one will be good for gamers though.

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Held back The 7-inch version of this premium handheld is eclipsed by the imminent Steam Deck.

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Speedy Alder Lake gets an all-core 5.1GHz overclock in this impressive high-end build.

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Lordy With a little tweaking and a few prayers, AMD's Ryzen 7 5700G handles Kratos' latest outing smoothly.

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Jaw dropping Gift Kratos the frame rate he deserves with these tweaks.

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Freshly squeezed How much cutting-edge hardware can you pack into this compact PC? All of it, of course.

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Storage wars Storage is about to get a whole lot faster.
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