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.
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News Yet a key original Proton dev has doubts it will work with every single game.

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News Falling Chia coin pricing has seen miners selling off drives at a loss or rebadging them as new.

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News AMD has mitigated Meltdown-like vulnerability, but its CPUs may still be open to further attacks.

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News What mobile apps are you dying to install on your Windows PC?

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News Easily switch out versions of Nvidia's AI tech with this neat little tool.

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News Nvidia isn't ready to give up on its cryptocurrency mining cards just yet.

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News It wasn't the fan controller after all but some flaky soldering.

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News There are more PCIe 4.0 lanes over current motherboards though.

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News But still had its best three months of sales so far.

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News The successor to the long-lived AM4 socket is on the way and looking beefy.

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News It's pre-production silicon, but I can't help but be hopeful about its potential.

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News The merged company lays claim to over 500 million users.

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News The light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be miners hacking GPUs.

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Reflexive Lowering system latency is never a bad thing, but how much difference does it make? It's complicated.

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News The chicken and the egg problem appears once again for next-gen storage.

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News It may all be hidden from view, but the underlying SteamOS 3.0 plays a critical role in the future of the Steam Deck.

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News Perversely, the new rules hurt mid-range PCs far more than power hogs.

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News Meteor Lake represents a fundamental change for team blue.

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News We could soon get the last salvo of this GPU generation.

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News Ridiculously high fan speeds appear to be behind the issues with the New World beta and failing RTX 3090s.

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News High virtual reality frame rates and higher quality visuals sound like a good use of AMD's upscaling tech.

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News Intel's gamble on big.LITTLE architecture could be about to pay off big time.

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News Don't get your hopes up if you're in the market for a new graphics card.
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