Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Claimed Sony PS6 handheld console specs promise a miracle of next-gen, cutting-edge processor architectures at a price that's barely enough for today's hardware
News It's not the season to be jolly yet, so how about a season of silly suggestions instead?
Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
News Redmond's gettin' with the times.
The radiance of a thousand suns: Overclockers set a new world record of 9.1 GHz with a P-core only 14900K
News Admittedly, only one of the cores hit that speed, but it's still one heck of an achievement.
Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) review
Score: 80% With a better screen and keyboard, this could have been Alienware's best-ever laptop.
AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
News Alas, poor Wraith Prism! I knew it, dear reader: a cooler of most excellent fancy.
Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process'
News Put simply, he's saying that devs need to aim low first, then target higher-tier hardware later on.
Further details of Nvidia's GB10 'superchip' shine light on the complex collaboration with MediaTek
News Though folks who have ordered one would probably have preferred to get the actual chip rather than just a tech breakdown.
Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
News Is the change to meet market demands or to have something to go against the inevitable RTX 50 Super models?
SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year
News This could be the turning point where we all stop going 'Eww' when we see a QLC SSD.
Gears of War: Reloaded PC performance: The updated graphics are easy work for any desktop GPU from the past six years but they're still enough to give handhelds grief
Re-re-geared You could use the potato-mode preset to get better portable performance, though your eyes won't thank you.
It's taken a long time to get here but you can now buy a non-Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090 at Nvidia's MSRP
Deal That's still $2,000 for a graphics card, mind...
Save $850 on this RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC and get all the power, memory, and storage you'll need for years to come
Deal Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
News Eight channels worth of 256 GB DDR5 running at 8,400 MT/s CAS38 is astonishing.
Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
News Gimme. Gimme now.
AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
News Getting ready for FSR to be on par with DLSS. Maybe even better.
Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
News The overall numbers follow expectations, but there are some glitches in this matrix for sure.
This $130 250 Hz MSI gaming monitor proves that you don't have to sacrifice speed when you're shopping on a tight budget
Deal It's not the brightest display you'll ever see, but it's perfect for getting into competitive esports.
Bing's latest 'just doing Bing things': Searching for certain AI models in Microsoft's Edge browser earns you a plea to use Copilot
News Bing doing Bing things: It doesn't do a great job of promoting Copilot, though.
Up to 700% faster than any interface in your gaming PC: PCI-SIG announces the specification goals for PCIe 8.0
News A 16x PCIe 8.0 graphics card slot could shift data at 1 TB/s, 7% faster than the VRAM on an RTX 5080.
'There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,' says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs
News Some US politicians may still believe otherwise, but the AI behemoth is adamant about its security.
Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest
News Its gaming earnings are way up, too, but it's console money doing the heavy lifting.
