Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Want size and speed in your SSD? Micron's new 2600 boasts 'up to 63% faster sequential write and 49% faster random write speeds' than the competition
News Dancing the SLC, TLC, and QLC three-way tango.
Microsoft says that 'Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3X faster than Windows 10 PCs', neglecting to mention that it's comparing apples to bowling balls
News In other shocking news, PC hardware of today is much faster than PC hardware from nearly a decade ago.
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An AI holds the top slot in a leaderboard that ranks people who hunt for system vulnerabilities used by hackers
News Gotta love a bit of automated penetration testing.
Graphics card vendors have started to show off their RTX 5050 models and they're looking ridiculously huge for such a tiny GPU
News And there are no single-slot options so far, I'm afraid.
Nvidia's DLSS AI transformer model is now out of beta so we might see more games get patched to make use of it
News Don't forget that it will also work on any GeForce RTX GPU, not just the latest ones.
DDoS attacks continue to grow ever bigger, with Cloudflare recently blocking the largest ever recorded at 37.5 TB over 45 seconds
News That's a little over 260 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 in less than a minute.
Nvidia surprise-launches the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, starting at $249 for what's basically a slower RTX 4060 with DLSS 4
News The launch might have come out of nowhere, but there's nothing here that's really a surprise.
Security mitigations in Intel's GPUs rob up to 20% of their compute performance but it's unlikely to be a problem in games
News If you're an OpenCL coder on Linux, though, you might want to consider disabling them.
You might be surprised to learn that while robots and other machines are vital for making a top-end CPU air cooler, there's still a lot of it that's handmade
news In fact, a great deal of your gaming PC has been made by hundreds of people.
Someone at Valve got their unit prefixes a bit muddled but a quick update for the latest Steam beta has fixed your slower-than-normal CPU reading
News Mega, mebi, giga, gibi. It's all giving me the heebie-jeebies.
Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use
Mind you, the power cables at 1,300 W do get a tad on the glowy-glowy side
Researchers develop a new technique to bond GaN transistors to a silicon chip, with the ultimate goal of having more powerful and efficient wireless transmitters
News Maybe, just maybe, the end is in sight for rubbish Bluetooth connections.
One lucky Redditor has managed to snag themselves a mythical AMD Radeon GeForce RTX RX 9070 XT. Yes, you read that right
News One manufacturer's boo-boo is another person's GPU of the decade.
The GPU-less version of Intel's best Arrow Lake chip, the one I bought myself, is now down to $230
Deal Two price cuts in two months make this a real bargain.
Linus Torvalds has apparently met Bill Gates for the first time in person and before you ask, no he didn't clock him in the face
News It's a far cry from the days when Linux was "a cancer" in the eyes of Microsoft.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman airs his thoughts on ads in ChatGPT: 'I'm not totally against it...I think ads on Instagram, kinda cool'
News Since when have ads in anything been cool?
By all that's holy, here are two GeForce RTX 5060 Ti cards that are genuinely being sold at MSRP
Deal Though only one of them is kinda worth buying.
Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing for even better graphics but unless you've got an RTX 50 graphics card, it's not worth using
Pretty path pains The new built-in benchmarks are pretty neat, though.
Windows Recall gets an export feature to let non-Microsoft websites and apps use your Copilot PC's snapshots
News But only if you live in the European Economic Area.
Latest beta version of Windows 11 gets the AI agent that Microsoft promised it would add: A search tool that works
News Just for Snapdragon X PCs at the moment, though.
The new Windows 11 Insider release has a weird bug where it plays the Windows Vista start-up music instead of the current one
News Cue memes along the lines of 'But why Vista?'
Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made
News Yes, I know I sound like a stuck record here, but it's really not the engine that's at fault.
