Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
News Fortunately, the Arrow Lake Refresh chips are still worth the extra money.
Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light (Update: The machine survived)
News The issue eventually resolved itself.
Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
News Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.
Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
News HTGR does brrrr. CPU in PCs running the demo goes brrrr-er.
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
News But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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.
Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
News There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.
The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
News So what if it only stores 64 bits? Each one is a little marvel of 1950s science and engineering.
'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
News How about tackling File Explorer next?
The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains
News But if the device is a certain Machine, then this is definitely good news.
AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPU cores will come in a low-power compact flavour, which should help laptop batteries last even longer
News Intel's Panther Lake has similar LPE cores, and they work a treat.
New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right
News Ignore how much VRAM it has; it's simply not worth 333 euros.
With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather
News Neither response is what the PC industry needs right now.
South Korea's president declares that it will invest over $580 billion in its AI chip industry, with Samsung and SK hynix coughing up most of the money
News That's great and all that jazz, but can I have affordable DDR5 and SSDs again, please?
True to its word, AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000-series card owners with its latest Adrenalin drivers
News The Steam Machine will eventually get it too. Whaddya mean, so what?
AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
News If true, my money would be on low-end laptop APUs or Ryzen IO chiplets.
My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.
'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
News When two become one.
Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review
Score: 82% The makers might be heavily into AI, but its chair design is all about humans.
Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
News The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?
Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
News Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.
Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
News After all, the hardware inside your phone is rather wasted, so let's stick it in something better.
