Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Keychron M5 review
Straight up This is what you get if you take an ergonomic, vertical mouse shell and stuff ultra-fast gaming hardware inside it.
Rip and tear into Doom: The Dark Ages with $300 off this easily upgradeable RTX 5070 gaming PC
Deal $1,500 gets you a whole lot of gaming goodness. You know, for wading through hordes of Hell's minions and whatnot.
Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
news "From the beginning, the company operated with a stunning lack of transparency that left impacted communities in the dark."
One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
news It's real, it's bling, its price tag is stratospheric: The gold-plated RTX 5090 from Asus finally goes on sale.
US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
News Sector-specific tariffs aren't part of the deal.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
Doom Drivers The frequency of GPU driver updates for portable PCs really needs improving.
Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
Rip and tearing rays Though once path tracing makes an appearance, all bets will probably be off.
Best cheap SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
This Acer RTX 4050 notebook is just $600 and, with a cheap RAM upgrade, you'll have a brilliant budget gaming laptop
Deal Plus, you can add a second SSD to host your bulging Steam library.
UK government says Нет to British companies selling game controllers to Russia, to combat the use of drone attacks
News "Gaming consoles will no longer be repurposed to kill in Ukraine."
There's a 25-year-old piece of PC hardware that's still being used in even the most powerful gaming PCs sold today. Happy birthday to USB 2.0
news And it's not the only ancient bit of PC tech that's still inside your gaming rig. Well, sort of.
This odd but surprisingly well-priced mini ITX motherboard from Minisforum packs an embedded AMD X3D processor
News Its specs are far from perfect, but that price tag is very tempting.
Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced
News If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.
Best external hard drives in 2025: 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.
Immerse yourself fully in Oblivion Remastered with this 39-inch OLED Asus ultrawide gaming monitor, now at $750
Deal Tamriel will never feel as good on anything else.
I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately
Faster arrows In one game, I saw a performance increase of over 40%, which is just wild to see.
A graphical history of Far Cry: 17 years of huge maps, epic vistas, and fast food fighting fun
Far out, man Open-world mayhem at its best.
Get into 4K gaming with this 27-inch IPS monitor, now $330 or 0.004 cents per pixel if you prefer
Deal Once you've switched to 4K, every other resolution just seems too blurry.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch day: Where to buy the new mainstream GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card, including all those at MSRP
RTX 5060 Ti deals US shoppers might want to wait (or weep), but at least UK shoppers can rejoice a little.
As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
Core concerns E-cores and the loss of hyperthreading aren't helping Intel win any future gaming crowns.
App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
news The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.
The first leaked GPU specs for AMD's RX 9060 XT appear and it's pretty much an RX 9070 XT chopped in two
News Named and specced to meet Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti head-on.
