Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
While we're still waiting for games to use Nvidia's RTX IO tech, data centres get another bit of hardware to remind us they've been using it all this time
News Like a Scooby Doo reveal, RTX IO is GPUDirect with a mask on. Well, it was.
'Are we going to bet the company's road map on chiplets?' AMD's CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes
News 'I really do believe for tech companies, the key is you have to be best at something.'
Trump administration is reportedly planning to tariff US tech firms that don't source equal numbers of imported and American chips
News How the US chip-making industry is supposed to ramp up to the scale required doesn't seem to be part of the plan.
Tired of shader compilation screens? Microsoft is rolling out its own solution, but we won't feel the benefits immediately
News We're probably in for a long wait before it's available on Steam, GOG, and other online stores.
Raspberry has only just launched its new Pi 500+ but one modder has already improved it, making it support an external RX 7900 XT graphics card for top-tier gaming
News If it can be done, a modder will do it. If it can't be done, a modder will do it anyway.
This 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti graphics card is a massive 21% under MSRP and you can save $50 on an RTX 5070, both at Walmart right now
Deal In fact, Walmart has all bar two RTX 50-series cards under MSRP. How times have changed.
A zero-water, zero-emissions, off-grid AI data center sounds like science fiction, but it's actually real and already running
News Forget nuclear, hydrogen fuel cells are where it's at.
Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat
News Though one teeny tiny leak and some poor technician's day will be ruined.
Yes, one line in a config file for Intel's graphics software really does say 'multi frame generation' but we probably shouldn't get our hopes up
News Though I shall completely ignore my own advice and pester Intel constantly until we get it.
DreamScene is back: Microsoft's resurrecting video wallpapers, a Windows feature last seen in 2007
News Wallpaper Engine users probably won't have much to worry about, though.
It's Alchemist, Battlemage or nothing: Intel driver support for every other GPU from the past four years moves into legacy mode
News No game-related fixes or tweaks, just quarterly security updates.
If claims about TSMC's prices for its next-gen process node are even only half right, then the best CPUs and graphics cards are going to become a lot more expensive
News Apparently, the cost for an N2 wafer will be more than 50% greater than an N3 one.
PC component maker Maxsun decides the time is right for a new motherboard format, by taking a hacksaw to an mATX circuit board
News It's YTX, says Maxsun. It's Ydidyoubother, says me.
One UK national arrested in joint-US operation is accused of being part of Scattered Spider, a group involved 'in a sweeping cyber extortion scheme' that resulted in over $115,000,000 in ransomware payments from victims
News A life sentence in prison, on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, is one possible outcome.
Milling the SSD back into sand is one way of upgrading your iPhone 17's storage and it makes a laptop upgrade look like a four-piece jigsaw puzzle by comparison
News Main difference just happens to be a casual bit of CNC milling.
It's going to be raining dollars over at Samsung: A stamp of approval by Nvidia, plus an incoming price hike for DRAM chips, has lifted shares out of the doldrums
News And it's not the only RAM and NAND flash maker to significantly bump prices.
Now that 4K/1080p dual-mode monitors are officially a thing, it's the perfect time to play a game of guessing what madcap tech monitors will next sport
Two in one 4K for work, 1080p for competitive gaming, all in one display.
Intel's future might be rosier now that Nvidia is partially on board but at this moment in time, AMD rules every roost in the CPU coop
The Red revolution Budget or mainstream, outright gaming or do-it-all-wonder, there's a Ryzen processor for everyone.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: 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.
Dying Light: The Beast PC performance analysis: Decent frame rates all round, nice graphics, and stutters only on low VRAM GPUs
Beast mode And if you do need more fps, upscaling works wonders here.
You can save $100s on either of these RTX 5060 or RTX 5070 gaming laptops, but which to pick? Actually, the answer's pretty easy if you ask me
Deal The answer to the conundrum lies in the screen.
Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2025: my top picks for cable-free typing delights
Freedom Cut the cord with the best wireless gaming keyboards.
