Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out
News Part of the problem is that the two cards look so similar...
Microsoft's Xbox app has been released for Arm PCs—just in time for Nvidia's new chip?
News Nvidia's N1X Arm CPU could be just months away.
Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine
News Next target: Upscaling from a single pixel.
Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU rumoured to be launching soon but only as a megabucks Pro graphics card with 32 GB of VRAM
News PC gamers just can't get a break...
OpenAI's internal documents predict $14 billion loss in 2026 according to report
News But it's claimed OpenAI will be making Nvidia-style money by 2029.
Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for the PC will be released within months according to a new report
News N1X out by the end of March, next-gen N2 in 2027.
Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz
News The best of both worlds?
Meta knowingly earns ad money from 'criminals and scammers' claims UK gambling watchdog
News Meta's searchable ad library for Facebook and Instagram is a 'window into criminality'.
Zalman heard you like screens, so it put a screen on a GPU support bracket to go with your umpteen other PC case screens
News The only thing that's really surprising is the $12 price.
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2026: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2026: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2026: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times
News Put aside a week to get the game loaded.
Framework 'held off as long as we could' but just cranked up prices of its Desktops and Mainboards
News 32 GB and 64 GB models only up a little, 128 GB option now very spendy.
Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for consumer PCs spotted in a near retail-ready Dell laptop
News But some of the details suggest Nvidia's near-mythical Arm chip may have been delayed.
Trump announces that AI companies must 'pay their own way' for energy consumption to prevent consumer utility bills from going up
News Ironically, capping energy prices is something the 'Radical Left' could get on board with.
Here's one solution to the ongoing PC memory crisis: Make your own DIY DDR5
News So, how's your soldering...?
Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU did not appear at CES but the rumours just won't go away
News G31 GPU shows up again, this time in an Intel driver package.
Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?
CES 2026 In a word, no.
AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs
News Just don't expect anything terribly optimised.
