Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
The new Acer Nitro PG1 is the first portable monitor I actually want thanks to 4K resolution and up to 144 Hz refresh
Computex It looks super slick, too.
Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn't need one
Computex Screens, screens and almost certainly more screens.
Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
News Arm's CPU market share reportedly increases from 10.8% to 13.6% in just one quarter.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
I may have to pull the trigger now that you can get a 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor for barely more than $700
Deal If 165 Hz won't do, the full 240 Hz experience is only $820.
Intel has announced a load of new bugs afflicting its chips and this time it's not just CPUs but also GPUs that are involved, hooray!
News No need for Intel Arc graphics to feel left out...
Intel admits it doesn't have any 'significant' commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs
News That all-important 18A node has yet to convince the likes of Nvidia or AMD to jump onboard.
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.
Microsoft is firing 3% of its staff, totalling just under 7,000 employees
News That's on top of 10,000 lost in 2023, plus at least 2,600 last year.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Now it's AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we're not sure if any CPUs are totally safe
News First it was Intel, now it's claimed AMD CPUs are dying thanks to voltage spikes.
Samsung's world-first 500 Hz OLED is the ultimate no-compromise esports monitor but it's painfully pricey at nearly $1,500
news The new Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 is so fast it hertz.
5,000 pixels per inch, beyond 8K and 15,000 nits: Samsung's new OLED for VR headsets sounds completely bananas
news There's a slightly lower res 20,000 nit version, too.
A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs
News These bugs refuse to be squashed...
AMD's upcoming RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option
news A hard pass at these prices.
MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all
News FYI, this doesn't actually apply to cracking an egg for breakfast.
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: 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 OLED gaming monitors in 2025: 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.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues
News Arrow Lake CPU, anyone?...Anyone?
AMD says it's set to lose out on $1.5B worth of AI GPU sales due to export restrictions, but Dr. Su hails its latest Ryzen chips as 'the CPU of choice for gamers' after huge rise in sales revenue
News PC processor revenues up by nearly 70%.
Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997
News The catch? It's kinda slow, as in 20,000 times slower than a GPU.
Microsoft unleashes an AI agent on your unsuspecting Windows settings, but initially only if you have a Snapdragon X-powered PC
News What, no more drilling down into submenus that date from the late 1990s?
