Latest articles by Nick Evanson
The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favourites
Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.
ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming
News How long before all desktop PCs with NPUs can use it is what I want to know.
If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered
News Team Blue's unannounced Arc Extreme looks like a real winner for gaming on the go.
Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve's been importing a whole heap of 'game consoles'
News What's in the box?
Microsoft's latest PowerToys tool brings control of your monitor into Windows: a must-have for anyone with lots of big monitors and too little time
News Power at your fingertips. Well, mouse button.
Single-channel DRAM is bad news for PC gaming but depending on what CPU you have, it's not actually as awful as you might think
Cached out Cache to the rescue.
Seagate FireCuda X Vault review
Score: 80% Big on size, big on capacity, not that big on price.
Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards
Crystal ballin' I've stared at Excel so much, I'm dreaming about spreadsheets now.
It's not just Intel that investors are loving right now: At over $450 billion, AMD's market cap is the highest it's ever been in 54 years
News If you bought AMD shares in its darkest times, you're probably laughing all the way to the bank right now.
If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little
News Sadly, there's no progress yet for A-series GPUs.
Valve's latest Proton 11 beta has been quietly released in an even more beta Arm64 flavour and you can thank the Steam Frame for that
News Arming PC gamers with all the tools they need.
Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
News Wildcat Lake has all of Panther Lake's goodies, except for its big iGPU.
MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise
News And it seems to be addressing its fondness for the chonk, too.
AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket
News The only problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.
Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet
News Your graphics card might be enormous, but the app that does all the magic is tiny.
'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
News You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.
Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million
News Team Green's claim rate shot up, too, reaching a figure 800% higher than that in 2024.
Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab
News It's a match for the competition on specs, but not quite there on price
Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this
News I'm not a huge fan of Surface laptops but I'd prefer it if they didn't price themselves into oblivion.
China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu
News Paying over $160 for a basic 1 TB drive at the moment just feels like a fever dream.
Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
News That rear IO panel is giving me the ick, though.
Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data
News If that's got you worried about security, then don't panic: a little bit of metal solves that problem entirely.
The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
News Tux is looking a little more dapper with every update.
