Latest articles by Nick Evanson
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.
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.
'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.
A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner
News The new Asus X870E Glacial motherboard looks super clean and feature-rich, but it's the integrated Wi-Fi drivers that get my nod
No, Jeff Bezos didn't predict the future of the home PC would see it being swept away into the cloud
News He's just talking about the world of data centers, that's all.
Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers
News Google's still working on a complete fix, but a partial solution is available.
SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices
News Though we're still some way off from seeing the light at the end of the AI-induced tunnel.
Apple is no longer the apple of TSMC's eye, with Nvidia taking centre stage in the supply of wafers, according to one report
News It essentially comes down to whoever is willing to pay the most and AI tops them all.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I'd feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app
News You can have too much of a good thing.
Best external hard drives in 2026: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights
Freedom Cut the cord with the best wireless gaming keyboards.
Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best RAM for gaming in 2026: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
