
Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

Fake Minecraft mods that steal all your personal data including crypto wallets are being distributed via GitHub accounts
By Jeremy Laird published
News Be very careful of your mods and tools.

Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops
By Jeremy Laird published
News A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon
By Jeremy Laird published
News By the time games use this tech, you'll have a different graphics card.

Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming
By Jeremy Laird published
News Will next-gen Xbox hardware be made by Microsoft, by someone else, maybe both?

Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games
By Jeremy Laird published
News Console, handheld and PC, all based on silicon co-engineered with AMD.

BOE outs 8K 120 Hz monitor and it's not quite as irrelevant for gaming as you think
By Jeremy Laird published
news It's all about integer scaling, peeps...

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
By Jeremy Laird published
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

Borderlands 4 system requirements demand 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of VRAM but the reality is probably a bit more forgiving than that
By Jeremy Laird published
News An AMD Ryzen 5 9600X will surely run Borderlands 4 just fine.

Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
By Jeremy Laird published
News No more dedicated Xbox consoles built by Microsoft, so the story goes...

Alienware 34 AW3425DW review
By Jeremy Laird published
Deja jeu Alienware's ultrawide OLED has a new look, but the gaming experience is mostly familiar.

Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely
By Jeremy Laird published
News An RTX 4070 or 5070 beater for a bit less money?

AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
By Jeremy Laird published
news AM4 forever.

OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear
By Jeremy Laird published
News But is water usage actually the worry?

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
By Jeremy Laird published
News AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.

Microsoft previews new super-sized Start menu for Windows 11
By Jeremy Laird published
news More of your apps and files just a couple of clicks away...

US peripheral maker cites 'global supply chain issues' as the reason for releasing its new gaming mouse everywhere except the US
By Jeremy Laird published
news Locally global issues, or should that be globally local...?

After 15 months and 3,800 hours of 'worst case' usage, one independent test finds OLED burn-in is now almost a non-issue
By Jeremy Laird published
news That pretty much correlates with our experiences...

Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.

This M.2 adapter for the new Switch 2 is pretty nifty and has me wondering if you could do an eGPU next (you can't)
By Jeremy Laird published
news It definitely doesn't look like it'll snap off in the MicroSD slot...

Great, so now farms are going to be crawling with giant robobugs like something straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn
By Jeremy Laird published
News How long before the 'derangement' occurs?

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.

MSI MPG 322URX review
By Jeremy Laird published
4K QD-OLED redux MSI's refreshed 4K QD-OLED monitor doesn't move the game on.

AMD's baffling 'new' Ryzen Z2 APUs for handheld gaming PCs include a premium 'AI' model with an NPU and seemingly the ancient chip from Valve's Steam Deck
By Jeremy Laird published
news The Z2 family now includes fully four different generations of AMD APU. Seriously?
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