Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Audeze Maxwell 2 review
Score: 86% The best cans in the business are back for round two, but this time, in a slightly worse package.
The next sales season is still months away, but the best gaming keyboard around is now as cheap as it was last Black Friday
Deal $130 gets you a slice of typing nirvana.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all
If it's good enough for consoles, surely it's good enough for a gaming PC?
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military
News Unlike me. I have cake and I'm eating it right now.
Any gaming setup will look infinitely posher when you slap this classy wood-trimmed Keychron keyboard on your desk
Deal Especially now that it has 20% chainsawed off the price.
RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience
Going slow And you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.
Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU
News Meanwhile, AMD's mobile Ryzens still give you the best of both worlds.
Not even Microsoft is confident that Copilot is right for coding, as it's encouraging staff to try out Anthropic's AI model, according to one report
News Anthropic is backed by Microsoft, though, to the tune of at least $5 billion.
Making the invisible visible, this engineering artist's creation shows the incredible level to which modern devices fill our world with radio waves
News It's a little bit spooky to watch in action, but I'd love one in my office.
Intel's in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: 'It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand'
News But it's 'aggressively as possible' in getting all other wafers out of the door.
Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
News No solutions yet, but it's better than staying quiet on the whole matter.
If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week
News So either face the storm now or ride it out for a year or so.
With DRAM and SSDs now all stupidly expensive, upgrade your gaming setup with this $260 ultra-curved, ultrawide monitor instead
Deal If the 3440 x 1440 resolution seems a bit too high for your GPU, then just enable upscaling to get the frame rates you want.
'I think this is crazy': Anthropic's CEO takes a potshot at Nvidia and the US government for selling AI chips to China
News It's not really biting the hands that feed it, more just a little nibble.
If you're tired of fighting with your mouse cursor across acres of multi-monitor screen space, Microsoft's latest PowerToys update has it all wrapped up for you
News To the top, to the bottom, to the left, to the right.
Nvidia allegedly greenlit the use of pirated books from illegal sources to train its AI models, according to an expanded class-action lawsuit
News The lawsuit from 2024 is back, this time with bigger allegations.
Doom, Windows 95, even Hytale itself: It seems like there's nothing that modders can't make Hytale run
News But can it run Crysis?
The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn't a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot
News One of Microsoft's veteran software engineers explains the full 'secret sauce'.
Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen
News It's not the end, but it is an end.
Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen
News We're all paying for sexy memory now.
Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production
News 2025 was full of tariff talk. Now it's 2026's turn.
