Latest articles by Andy Edser
I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
News I look forward to physically shoving my head in my case to check my RAM speeds. The future!
I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
News Still, a fix is a fix. Mostly.
'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
News I'm not entirely sure this helps.
Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
News Yeah, but can it play... y'know what, I'm not even gonna go there.
Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
News New face, same Comet Lake-era performance.
'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan
News "There is one company benefiting from this status quo: Microsoft itself."
'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt
News 4x MFG and DLSS Balanced for 60 fps+ on an RTX 5080 at 1440p? Ouch.
Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
News Yet another episode of: "Andy learns things with you."
Oracle's $300 billion deal with OpenAI briefly knocked Elon Musk off the world's richest person spot, replaced instead by the company's head honcho, Larry Ellison
News Spare any change, guv?
This YouTuber added over an hour's worth of battery life to their Switch 2 with a pair of scissors and a weeb-themed 8,000 mAh pack
News To those who cut into brand new hardware, we salute you.
Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
News Poor phrasing, thread counts, or something else?
I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too
News Can we realistically call this a gaming monitor, of sorts?
I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble
Slayer Streaming Even with the odd glitch, I'll admit I've been seriously impressed.
This Gigabyte RTX 5060 gaming laptop looks like a little budget ripper for just over $1,000, and it even comes with the correct amount of RAM
Deal That's 32 GB, if you were wondering.
The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a 'biofeedback instrument' that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature
News I am the Lorax, and I bop to the trees.
The world's first 'true 8K' ultra-wideband gaming mouse is here, complete with a glowing dongle that's supposedly less prone to unwanted interference
News Yes, a glowing dongle. You heard me right.
Nvidia's CFO says there's still 'a little geopolitical situation that we need to work through' before shipping its AI GPUs to China, but it's 'a $2 billion to $5 billion potential opportunity'
News Nvidia's government-related headache seems to continue.
Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
News One whole core for pinball duties.
'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
News Intel might be inside, but some wish it wasn't.
Nvidia has reportedly asked Samsung to double its production of GDDR7, possibly for AI GPUs to China—although we're hoping for some more VRAM-stacked RTX 50-series Super cards
News Fingers crossed?
'What we're building is a city': Take a tour inside TSMC's Arizona chipmaking fab and marvel with me at the vast scale and science fiction-like goodies inside
News Don't touch anything, though. Limbs inside the cart at all times.
For under $1,500, I'd snap up this OLED-equipped RTX 5070 gaming laptop in a heartbeat
Deal Nothing's perfect, but this machine is rather close.
I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
Win or Bin? I have seen the light. Three of them, in fact.
