Latest articles by Nick Evanson
OpenAI has teamed up with Broadcom to make its own AI processors, according to a report, possibly as part of a long-term plan to move away from Nvidia's GPUs
News Broadcom recently announced a $10 billion deal with one unnamed customer. Hmmm.
Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system
News If you've done some programming on an original Commodore 64, it's basically that one.
Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg, an entirely different Mark Zuckerberg. Although the one being sued is that Mark Zuckerberg
News You might laugh, but it's no joke for Mark Zuckerberg. No, the other one.
The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
News Still, any GPU from the past 10 years is nice to see.
This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
News The shape for today is a square. Organically square.
Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
News Hopefully, Nova Lake will be worth every cent.
The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
News At least Techland has recognised the millions of PC gamers who use a laptop.
Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
News Beats dealing with PCIe extension ribbons but finding a suitable PC case might be more trouble than its worth.
'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
News Vital engineering research to answer the question, "What if…?"
Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
News It's not a big problem at the moment, but don't be surprised if, at the end of it all, you'll just be paying more for your PC parts.
Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.
I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
News Sadly, no amount of GPU super-tech will fix the rough, old-looking textures.
Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
News Pinky promise?
Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
News Massive AI GPUs are already using them, so naturally, CPUs are feeling a bit jealous.
Armed with AMD's latest SDK, DLSS Swapper, and one renamed file, you can apparently just drop FSR 4 into games that run FSR 3
News Whether it's actually using FSR 4 or just stating the name of the file version is the million-dollar question, though.
Claimed Sony PS6 handheld console specs promise a miracle of next-gen, cutting-edge processor architectures at a price that's barely enough for today's hardware
News It's not the season to be jolly yet, so how about a season of silly suggestions instead?
Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
News Redmond's gettin' with the times.
The radiance of a thousand suns: Overclockers set a new world record of 9.1 GHz with a P-core only 14900K
News Admittedly, only one of the cores hit that speed, but it's still one heck of an achievement.
Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) gaming laptop review
Score: 80% With a better screen and keyboard, this could have been Alienware's best-ever laptop.
AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
News Alas, poor Wraith Prism! I knew it, dear reader: a cooler of most excellent fancy.
Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process'
News Put simply, he's saying that devs need to aim low first, then target higher-tier hardware later on.
Further details of Nvidia's GB10 'superchip' shine light on the complex collaboration with MediaTek
News Though folks who have ordered one would probably have preferred to get the actual chip rather than just a tech breakdown.
Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
News Is the change to meet market demands or to have something to go against the inevitable RTX 50 Super models?
