Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best external hard drives in 2024
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Super resolution, super low price: This 27-inch 4K gaming monitor is a mere 0.003 cents per pixel
deal That's $280, to save you the math, and it's also the cheapest it's ever been.
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.
Blacklyte Atlas review
Rising RGB Squaring up against Secretlab in the boutique gaming desk market? Bold move, Cotton.
Blacklyte Kraken gaming chair review
Painful perch Naming a gaming chair after a beast from the depths of the ocean is rather prophetic in this instance.
Just to cap off Intel's annus horribilis, Time picks AMD's Dr Lisa Su as its CEO of the year
news Definitely a better choice than last year's pick, that's for sure.
Raspberry's Pi 500 is the perfect throwback to the 1980s golden age of home computing and I'd love to relive those moments again with a modern machine
news Best of all, there's not a single cassette tape in sight.
AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute
news It's not much to go on but at this point in time, I'll take it.
Google's WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a 'septillion years' is meaningless
news Not that you'd be adding one to your gaming PC, sadly. Or any PC, for that matter.
Intel researchers create a method for AI-generating frames in games without added input latency
news It's the holy grail of AI frame generation: extrapolation, not interpolation.
FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat
news The true cost of generative AI is the erosion of trust.
Arctic's new fan-cooled fans might be for servers but I want a gaming rig full of them for the ultimate cooling kudos
news That and total hearing loss. Say what?
Ubisoft has fixed some of the issues with Avatar, Outlaws and the Windows 11 24H2 update, but the big three Assassin's Creed are still borked
News No 24H2 for you if Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla are installed. And vice versa.
Microsoft says 64 GB is the 'ideal spec' for Flight Simulator 2024 but I've tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference
All your RAM It's the first game I've tested where more than 32 GB is actually worth having.
Black Friday is over but AndaSeat is still dishing out the gaming chair deals, with up to $80 off its sublime Kaiser 4 XL
Deal If you have a fuller frame, then this AndaSeat is the one for you. Actually, it's the one for you, even if you're not.
Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark
news A speedy SSD makes all the difference but the Devil is in the details
Best RAM for gaming in 2024: 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.
OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough
news Not just tougher but brighter and more power efficient, too.
Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch
news Stop sniggering at the back, okay?
Best CPU for gaming in 2024: 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.
Best PC controllers in 2024: 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.
If you want to give your older gaming PC an early Christmas present, I've got the perfect system upgrade for you for less than $370
Deal Budget doesn't mean bad, especially when 3D V-Cache is involved.
