Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
News That rear IO panel is giving me the ick, though.
Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data
News If that's got you worried about security, then don't panic: a little bit of metal solves that problem entirely.
The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
News Tux is looking a little more dapper with every update.
Nearly here! Microsoft ups the partition size limit of FAT32 from 32 GB to 2 TB in the latest beta of Windows 11
News Got deja vu? Yeah, me too.
Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs
News "Hey NeMo, what is a GPU? Why, it's a Gelato Processing Uakari. Err, what?"
Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
News Just remember that 44 and 52-core monsters are unlikely to be marketed at PC gamers.
CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware (Update: Fixed)
News Staff at CPUID have reportedly fixed the issue now.
Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model
News Shame you can't embiggen your own gaming SSDs like this. Or can you?
During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not
Going slow Does fast DDR5 make a difference to gaming, you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.
Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...
Don't fret If it's good enough for consoles, surely it's good enough for a gaming PC?
Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars
News Its market capitalization is higher than it's ever been for over 25 years, thanks to recent chips and deals with Google and the Terafab project.
Asus announces the ROG Equalizer: a new cable aimed at making melting GPU power connectors a thing of the past
News It's even compatible with PSUs from other vendors, as long as it has a decent 12V-2x6 socket.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas
News It's probably going to be the only bit of good news for PC vendors this year.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899
News But for the right person, it's actually a bargain.
It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD
Deal The CPU is pretty basic, but it's good enough to get you going in PC gaming.
Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins
News Everyone wants a slice of the multi-billion-dollar AI pie.
SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs
News What's good for SK hynix and Dell isn't necessarily good for you. Yet.
Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'
News It managed to find a vulnerability in OpenBSD that had lain hidden for 27 years.
Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022
News Who needs DRAM in their PC anyway? Mine works on wishes and positive thoughts.
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.
