Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
news If GPU coolers weren't so silly, this wouldn't even be possible.
You can watch RAM prices going up almost in real-time on Amazon and it's only likely to get worse
news PC memory prices have doubled since the summer.
OneXPlayer's new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD's top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299
News If you're not getting all 40 graphics CUs, honestly what's the point?
That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)
News Now, that's a big short.
This new leaked AMD Strix Halo variant could be the ultimate chip for handheld gaming PCs
News Half the CPU cores but all the graphics compute units? Yes please.
AMD posts record profits but it's not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too
news AMD is going gangbusters across pretty much all segments.
Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill
news So fast it Hz.
I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly
News This 11-inch 'handheld' PC is bigger than my laptop...
A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance
News Task Manager is super handy, but who needs umpteen copies running?
Promising new nanoscale OLED tech makes 1 mm 1080p panels possible, which could usher in an era of ultra-realistic VR, dual-4K AR glasses, tiny projectors and much more
News Care for some 300 nm pixels, anyone?
NZXT's controversial PC rental scheme hit by class action lawsuit claiming the company 'defrauded consumers through gross misrepresentations and illegal business practices'
News Last year's NZXT mea culpa apparently wasn't enough.
Nvidia is the world's first $5 trillion company, but CEO Jensen Huang's nifty narrative about accelerated computing and the remarkable foresight that led to today's AI revolution doesn't quite add up
News Nvidia has done incredible things, but a lot of luck was involved, too.
Nvidia's new six-trillion transistor Vera Rubin 'superchip' for AI makes the 92-billion transistor RTX 5090 gaming GPU look positively puny
News That said, it's not actually all in one chip...
Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing
News GPUs plus QPUs equals a new computing paradigm?
New research into human vision proves high-res PC monitors right up to 16K are worth it and comes with a handy calculator to help you choose your next screen
News Time to save up for a 16K PC monitor?
This 'shunt modded' Asus RTX 4090 laptop beats the latest RTX 5090 portables but you'd be very brave to do this to your own machine
news Up to 35% faster than a standard RTX 4090...
OG Doom legend John Carmack says his Nvidia DGX Spark box has thermal throttling issues, raising doubts over the viability of Nvidia's AI APU for laptop PCs
News Carmack claims his DGX Spark is delvering just half the expected performance.
Power? Contact. Fuel? Check. Ignition? Go! This, ladies and germs, is the way to boot up your desktop PC
News Delayed gratification at its finest.
OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel's Panther Lake chip officially isn't Celestial, it's really just Xe2 'Plus Plus,' but even Intel itself doesn't yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia
News So, that's all cleared up now. Not.
Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95
News Four score and 20 operating systems ago...
TCL's new OLED megafactory is purpose-built to make 'high-end' screens for monitors, laptops and tablets cheaper thanks to a low-cost inkjet manufacturing process
news An OLED factory that isn't all about TVs.
OpenAI launches its new agentic AI Atlas browser with the intention of taking over 'most web use' and a warning to 'weigh the tradeoffs' of using its most powerful features
News It's for Apple Macs only for now. Windows, iOS, and Android devices will submit to Atlas 'soon'.
Best gaming motherboards in 2025: 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.
