Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
These new dual-slot Nvidia RTX graphics cards from PNY are a throwback to a simpler time of sensibly-sized GPUs
CES 2026 But the pricing will no doubt be distinctly 2026.
Asus launches new gaming monitors with two completely different 'RGB stripe' OLED panel technologies
CES 2026 Okay, this is officially confusing.
Dell resurrects XPS brand with slick new laptop that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and relies on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt
CES 2026 Fancy battery tech and tandem OLED screens are among the highlights.
MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 gaming monitor review
Score: 92% The latest QD-OLED tech is something very special.
PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years
Arm-y There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.
Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia
News Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.
Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES
News If RAM prices are making a PC upgrade impossible, maybe 2026 is the year for a new gaming monitor?
Intel Panther Lake laptops leak early onto retailer sites, so it looks like 18A really is ready to roll
News Is this the beginning of Intel's comeback?
Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
News That's one way to light up some Reddit threads...
AMD is allegedly sizing up Samsung's new 2 nm node as an alternative to TSMC's N2 silicon for its next-gen chips
News Keeping TSMC honest would be very good for the PC industry.
Microsoft's new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling
News The shameless plug for Copilot+ AI PCs is a turn-off, too.
Kiss goodbye to cheap VRAM, reports say supplies of Nvidia's RTX 3060 graphics cards are finally running out
News Is the 12 GB RTX 3060's longevity proof positive of the importance of VRAM?
Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun
News Affordable DDR5 and PC storage is but a sweet, well, memory. Will graphics cards follow?
OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?
News Well, it certainly hasn't been all good news for PC gamers!
AMD wants to hire people with experience of Intel's new silicon tech, but would AMD ever actually make chips with its arch rival?
News If nothing else, the positive noise around Intel's new nodes seems to be increasing.
L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...
News 20 years on. Or should that be 26 years on...?
Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into 'AI megafactories'
News ASICs out, AI GPUs in. And probably net-nothing for PC gaming.
Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
News On the desktop, in your hands, even on an Arm chip, Windows wants to be best.
Framework calls out Dell and Apple for using the RAMpocalypse to 'gouge customers' on memory upgrade prices but the reality is more complicated
News Dell's memory pricing is more confusing than consistently offensive.
This SIM-card-sized 2 TB SSD hits 3.5 GB/s and has full NVMe functionality, but it's arriving just in time for the memory apocalypse
News PCIe 4.0 support in a sort-of SIM card.
Philips and AOC announce the 'world's first' 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors
News 500 Hz native 1440p, 1,000 Hz 1080p alt mode.
Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
News Sounds good, but we haven't even seen any 18A Intel chips, yet.
The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory
News Two Linuses, one PC.
