Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute
News Quite what Intel is actually going to do, however, is still very much unknown.
Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse
News We're talking AMD FX-series and Intel Core 5th Gen or older here.
'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past
News And for once, it's a positive news story about AI, too.
Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs
News Power from the people, power to the people.
It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC
Deal Don't pay more for stuff you don't need.
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.
Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
News Am I so out of touch or is it Nvidia that's wrong?
Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.
Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing
Dynamic And for some games, no amount of AI-generated frames will make them run well.
Thanks to Amazon's Big Spring Sale, this glorious 1440p OLED gaming monitor is now the cheapest it's ever been
Deal $385 for pixel-perfect gaming is a win in my book, or anyone's book, for that matter.
Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.
This RX 9070 XT gaming PC not only has 32 GB of fast DRAM, but it also boasts a $535 discount. Take that, RAMpocalypse
Deal Just make sure you use the promo code to save all that sweet cash.
Even in a global memory crisis you can get a whole PC gaming setup on the cheap if you go pre-built
Deal Add a nice monitor, keyboard, mouse, and headset, and you've got the perfect starter setup for less than $1,200
Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff
Warped speed Unless you've got a very specific setup that involves an Intel CPU, an RTX 5090, a 1080p monitor, and potato-quality graphics settings.
I've tested Intel's new Binary Optimization Tool to see what all the fuss is about and while it's almost everything the chip giant claims it to be, few PC gamers will ever see the benefits
Benching BOT It really does work but with so few CPUs and games supporting it, BOT will mean nothing to most enthusiasts.
Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review
Score: 87% The dark horse of Arrow Lake: Ultra 7 class performance for an Ultra 3 class price tag.
The best gaming chair around is now a little bit better, thanks to Secretlab's not-so-secret sale
Deal A $50 discount isn't a huge saving but it's better than nothing at all.
Nvidia's very keen on you 'catching the future of real-time rendering' at this year's GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking
News It'll be 100% AI-powered stuff, of course, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
'We want that the real-time images look indistinguishable from reality. We want them to look like a film.' Nvidia has lofty goals for path-traced graphics, but its support for Microsoft's shader stutter cure is a lot more interesting to me
News Can't brute force your way to path tracing nirvana, so it'll be AI all the way into the future of graphics.
