Katie Wickens
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she's waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens
You wish your relationship was as intimate as me and my low profile keyboard
By Katie Wickens published
Cherry cherubs It's time to let Cherry's Ultra Low Profile MX key switch into your heart.
The best full-tower case in 2024
By Katie Wickens last updated
Absolute unit The best full-tower cases for the most extreme builds.
Giving AI rights 'would complicate things enormously'
By Katie Wickens published
Echoes of self Especially when sentience is not a binary construct, and we're the idiots over here failing the AI mirror test.
Wild Hearts devs fix the hellish RX 7900 XTX 'disco lights' headache
By Katie Wickens published
news The new patch also undoes the 'unintentional' high-end CPU frame caps, along with fixes for a bunch of other issues.
Your desktop reveals your D&D alignment, like it or not
By Katie Wickens published
D&Desktops I know all I need to know about a person's D&D alignment by the state of their desktop and background.
AMD won't have users 'paying for features they never use' when it comes to AI in GPUs
By Katie Wickens published
news AMD is looking into upping its AI acceleration to improve its graphics cards, but much less liberally than the competition.
Watching this artist drag an easel into Half-Life: Alyx makes me want to be a VR painter too
By Katie Wickens published
news The Vermillion VR overlay transports a realistic artistic experience into your favourite VR gameworlds.
Here's another good reason to keep your GeForce Experience software up to date
By Katie Wickens published
news Older versions of Nvidia's software installer are susceptible to new attack vulnerabilities. Better update ASAP.
Corsair K100 Air review
By Katie Wickens published
Air head An ultra-thin, wireless gaming keyboard with exclusive Cherry MX keyswitches, though that exclusivity comes at a price.
Stacked microLEDs could bring us the ultimate gaming monitor
By Katie Wickens published
news Vertical pixelation could bring us "higher-resolution displays in a smaller footprint".
Make the great Lord Sauron himself jealous with this LOTR keyboard
By Katie Wickens published
news Servants of Mordor can now prove their undying allegiance to the Dark Lord with this Lord of the Rings gaming keyboard.
Watch this OG Slayer run Doom across four screens
By Katie Wickens published
news Getting this to work on original hardware is a masterpiece, but it wasn't easy to set up.
Doughnut-shaped laser beam used to create fibre optics from thin air
By Katie Wickens published
news Who needs fibre optics when you have high-powered doughnut lasers?
Bean obsessed crypto-weeb community harvested for $2.74m in cryptocurrency & NFTs
By Katie Wickens published
news Web3 anime world Azuki's Twitter got hacked, resulting in some 334,600 followers being exposed to fake mints.
Save $300 on this speedy 144Hz 4K IPS gaming monitor
By Katie Wickens published
deal The 144Hz Spectrum 4K finally makes sense at just $649.
Cyberpunk 2077 patch delivers DLSS 3 ahead of painstakingly extreme ray tracing mode
By Katie Wickens published
news DLSS 3 support should give us a bit of headroom when it comes to ray tracing performance.
Sony's expecting a severe drop in PSVR 2 sales from a projected 2 million
By Katie Wickens published
news Now Sony is reportedly staring down a number closer to 1.5 million high-end VR headsets in the first year.
This Lego Intel Arc A750 GPU has a working fan made of meat cleavers
By Katie Wickens published
news It's not likely to end up an official Lego Intel Arc set, but a parts list is coming for anyone interested.
Top tech tips to fool your boss into thinking you're working hard
By Katie Wickens published
boss battle Whether you're working from home or the office, here's the totally official PC Gamer guide to slacking off without getting noticed.
The HTC Vive XR Elite is so light I damn near stole it
By Katie Wickens published
Weightless VR I genuinely almost walked out of that HTC press event with a $1,100 XR headset on
Melting Terminator T-1000 bots can unclog your digestive system and break out of mini jail cells
By Katie Wickens published
news Researchers are putting "phase shifting bots" into action in a host of strange applications.
Improve your RTX 4090's thermals by playing in a -53°C snowdrift
By Katie Wickens published
news -53°C temps in northern China has meant no overheating worries for this Intel Core i9 1300K & Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming PC build.
Machine translation startup predicts humanity's impending obsolescence
By Katie Wickens published
news The rate at which machine translation improves is used to predict when the technological singularity will happen.
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