Latest articles by James Bentley
Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis
News Could the big three become the big four?
EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'
News It seems like it was linked to a recent Nvidia driver update.
Razer's BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset right now and with almost $50 off, it's the only one I'd recommend
Deal It's our pick as the best gaming headset for a reason.
Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight
News CXMT is having a big couple of months.
Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem
News No, this time for real.
SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"
News Now if you could just cool it on the AI, that would be good.
OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post
News Apple has yet to respond.
Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad
News AM4 is back on the menu.
I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump
News I can hear my 4070 Super screaming in the background.
MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG
News This could be an important testing ground for the panel technology.
Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory
News I've only just heard of it, but I'm now afraid of being put in Noctua's torture-test rig.
'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck
News And it even kinda works with Rocket League.
Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch
news And I don't even know if it's worth the original price.
We haven't needed motion blur in games for a long time, so I wish it would stop being the default
not blur-fect Do you also turn it off immediately, like I do?
It seems like AMD's Zen 6 LP CPU cores will be a mixture of architectures going all the way back to Zen 2
News I'd love to see these thrown into a gaming laptop.
First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies
News We'll have to test one for ourselves to make up our minds.
Report shows 34% of physical PS5 games and 50% of Xbox Series X games do not work fully without a download first
News Are consoles following PC's lead?
AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first
News It's not a good time to buy a PC.
The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%
News And graphics card prices were already not looking pretty.
Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year
News 'Beyond 2029, it is hard to say because of more limited visibility'
Keychron's gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques 'firmware you can't read, can't audit, can't change'
News I'm always in favour of more open-source software.
The best mini-LED 1440p gaming monitor this year has dropped to its lowest price with $80 off
Deal $270 is a bit of a steal.
OpenAI CEO thinks the AI singularity is already upon us and that cracking down on it wouldn't be good for humanity, because of course he does
News It makes sense that the OpenAI CEO wants you to think that AI is very, very intelligent.
