Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
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.
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?
LG's new OLED technology literally stretches the boundaries of display tech and promises to turn almost any surface into a screen—or should that be the other way round?
news Stretchable panels are aimed at cars but what else could they be used for?
ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why
News With better reasoning ability comes even more of the wrong kind of robot dreams.
Acer Predator SpatialLabs View 27 review
Glasses-free 3D Glasses-free 3D isn't quite as liberating as you'd hope.
Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
News Anything that might keep Nvidia honest would be incredibly welcome.
Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts
News Simpler, safer sign-ins. Allegedly…
Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
News Only four Celestial-spec GPU cores at launch, not the full-fat 12-core variant.
Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans
News All your subreddits are belong to us.
ChatGPT's latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is 'overly supportive but disingenuous'
News Sam Altman puts it in different terms, saying GPT-4o "glazes" too much.
Google's dominance in decline as its overall share of online search dips below 90% for the first time in a decade, and its desktop PC share is now below 80% and falling fast
news Is deGoogling the next big thing?
Forget the rumoured 18 GB RTX 5070 Super, this utterly epic 96 GB Nvidia GPU will solve all your VRAM worries, kinda
News All for the low, low price of $8,500.
Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPU looks like a killer gaming handheld chip thanks to a reported massive graphics upgrade, hefty AI performance and upgraded E-cores
News 50% more graphics cores, 180 AI TOPS, Darkmont cores, the works.
