Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
The European Commission wants Europe to become the world leader in quantum computing within the next five years
News The AI ship has already sailed and the fusion boat is still stuck in the docks, so is this the next best thing?
No PC gamer actually needs this 3000 W power supply unit but like Gollum and the one ring, I wants it
News Must have the precious.
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
All change at the top: Corsair's founder and long-running CEO steps down after 31 years as former company president Thi La takes over the reins
News Before you ask, no he wasn't Gelsingered.
After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight
News Windows drivers had the same issue, but they've already been sorted.
To the surprise of nobody, sales of the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti at retailer Mindfactory outstrip the 8 GB version by a factor of 16
News It's a different story when it comes to OEMs and system builders, though.
When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
News Windows 11 has yet to crack 60% of any Steam Hardware Survey.
Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
News It's all funny to watch an AI have an existential moment in a little experiment, but it's a stark reminder of the limitations that LLMs have.
Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'
News Minimal or not, when the problem involves lithium-ion cells, it's better to be safe than very, very sorry.
Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it
News That's seven states done, only another 43 to go.
Jamming Windows 95 onto a PS2, goes about as well as you might expect, but the Sisyphean struggle is still compelling viewing
News Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. The saying doesn't cover PS2s, unfortunately.
An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up
News And for gaming, it won't make a jot of difference. Low-latency cache is what we need.
Specs rumours for the Super versions of Nvidia's RTX 5070 cards kick off with more VRAM being the main dish of the day
News It looks like higher clock speeds will be served, too, but it's not looking like a meal to savour.
Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'
News And the Fedora community seems to be completely split 50-50 on the idea.
Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and bushes from just 52 kB of data
News Procedural generation has a long history of doing so much with so little.
The new version of Logitech's glorious MX Master makes an appearance in the EU Intellectual Property Office database, pointing to an imminent release
News And thankfully, it's more of the same, with some extra buttons for giggles and stuff.
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.
Want size and speed in your SSD? Micron's new 2600 boasts 'up to 63% faster sequential write and 49% faster random write speeds' than the competition
News Dancing the SLC, TLC, and QLC three-way tango.
Microsoft says that 'Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3X faster than Windows 10 PCs', neglecting to mention that it's comparing apples to bowling balls
News In other shocking news, PC hardware of today is much faster than PC hardware from nearly a decade ago.
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An AI holds the top slot in a leaderboard that ranks people who hunt for system vulnerabilities used by hackers
News Gotta love a bit of automated penetration testing.
Graphics card vendors have started to show off their RTX 5050 models and they're looking ridiculously huge for such a tiny GPU
News And there are no single-slot options so far, I'm afraid.
