Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
News Fortunately, the Arrow Lake Refresh chips are still worth the extra money.
Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light (Update: The machine survived)
News The issue eventually resolved itself.
Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
News Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.
Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
News HTGR does brrrr. CPU in PCs running the demo goes brrrr-er.
Best cheap SSD deals today
Deals Add more storage space to your PC for less with one of the deals I've spotted.
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
News But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
News There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.
Great gaming monitor deals are like buses: You get none for ages, then three turn up at once
Deal Each one has something to tempt you, be it the price tag or blistering speed.
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.
The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
News So what if it only stores 64 bits? Each one is a little marvel of 1950s science and engineering.
'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
News How about tackling File Explorer next?
The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains
News But if the device is a certain Machine, then this is definitely good news.
AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPU cores will come in a low-power compact flavour, which should help laptop batteries last even longer
News Intel's Panther Lake has similar LPE cores, and they work a treat.
New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right
News Ignore how much VRAM it has; it's simply not worth 333 euros.
With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather
News Neither response is what the PC industry needs right now.
South Korea's president declares that it will invest over $580 billion in its AI chip industry, with Samsung and SK hynix coughing up most of the money
News That's great and all that jazz, but can I have affordable DDR5 and SSDs again, please?
Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals
Prime Day 2026 Amazon's big sales bonanza is all over. Until the next one!
Amazon Prime Day SSD deals
Prime Day 2026 We're looking for the best SSD deals to weather the memory crisis.
The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too
Deal Save an enormous $200 on a three-node kit.
With a huge 31% Prime Day discount, this Asus ROG gaming keyboard is a great deal for anyone wanting a fast and feature-rich button basher
Deal It's not wireless but don't let that put you off.
With these Prime Day deals, you can build your own AMD Zen 5-powered RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC for less than $1,070—cheaper than any prebuilt system
Prime Day Slap on an OS of your choice and you'll be good to go.
Rein the heat with three of the best AIO CPU coolers around, now all with massive discounts thanks to Prime Day
Prime Day With savings up to $94, now is the perfect time to grab a new chip chiller.
You can't have a gaming PC without DRAM, so here are the cheapest DDR4 and DDR5 memory kits I've found in the Prime Day sales
Prime Day There's no avoiding the RAMpocalypse but that doesn't mean you should pay more for memory than necessary.
