Alan has been writing about PC tech since before 3D graphics cards existed, and still vividly recalls having to fight with MS-DOS just to get games to load. He fondly remembers the killer combo of a Matrox Millenium and 3dfx Voodoo, and seeing Lara Croft in 3D for the first time. He's very glad hardware has advanced as much as it has though, and is particularly happy when putting the latest M.2 NVMe SSDs, AMD processors, and laptops through their paces. He has a long-lasting Magic: The Gathering obsession but limits this to MTG Arena these days.
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News AMD's newest upscaling tech will soon be available in 45 games.

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Deal And it's a much faster card than the RTX 3060, so well worth picking up.

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Review It's not perfect, but Corsair's first laptop may be tempting for a very specific audience.

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News That's a 40% improvement to sequential reads and writes over PCIe 4.0 SSDs.

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News Upgrading to AMD's new platform is looking like a pricey affair.

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News Reassuring news for anyone that has bought a compatible PCIe 4.0 SSD.

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News It'll also show you which DLSS version your game is running.

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News The latest spin of the upscaling tech suffers from too much ghosting and shimmering for some.

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News It's either good news or very, very bad news for your bank account when it comes to AMD's next-gen CPUs.

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Arts & Drafts A little bit of luck, a little bit of skill, and a boatload of perseverance gets you there in the end.

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News Workstations and laptops get some professional-grade hardware love.

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News The beauty of the modular laptop just keeps on giving.

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News If you've got your heart set on playing older games then Intel's new GPUs may not be the perfect option.

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News If you're trying to optimize your gaming then DLSS and FSR could be the answer.

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Deal You're getting an Alder Lake Core i7 for your money too.

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News Could this be the vanguard of a whole slew of SSDs designed for Microsoft's API, or just a bit of overzealous marketing?

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Review A year ago this would have been the Zen 3 to get, but today it simply isn't good enough.

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Review AMD's most affordable Zen 3 chip is finally here but it's too little too late.

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News Intel's openness about its GPU's capabilities is certainly refreshing.

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Deal Affordable yet versatile isn't a bad starting point for any laptop.

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News It's early days, and it's only one benchmark, but that's still an impressive uplift.

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News Zen 4 is coming and looks utterly metal.
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