Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Asus goes all out with its new ROG G1000 gaming PC: The 'world's first' to have a holographic fan system built into the case
CES 2026 For those times when RGB just isn't bling enough.
AMD launches its fastest gaming CPU yet, though the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is clocked just 8% higher than the 9800X3D
CES 2026 And AMD tells us to only expect 2 - 3% higher performance on average, 5% at best if a game really likes higher clocks.
The AMD Ryzen AI Max range gets two more entries, one of which looks perfect for the ultimate in handheld PC gaming
CES 2026 It's certainly better for gaming than the 'new' Ryzen AI 400 chips, that's for sure.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
Love it or hate it, but frame generation is the one major graphics technology that really needs improving in 2026
Next gen Upscaling is almost perfect. Now it's frame gen's time.
Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has
Gear of the Year No joke, it's been the best upgrade I've done in years.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025
Gear of the year Motherboards are the only way that Intel stands any chance of winning an award this year.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2025
Gear of the year It's another slam dunk for AMD, of course, but that doesn't mean there's an obvious winner.
Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025
Best dev …and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.
Out of all the new games I've played in 2025, Grounded 2 deserves a special nod simply because it makes me like a genre that I really don't like: multiplayer survival
🏆 It's not me, it's you. I don't like you.
It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs
News Ultra-tiny, cutting-edge processes aren't needed for platform controllers.
Securities firm research suggests that Intel is on track to garner chip manufacturing and packaging orders from Apple, Broadcom, Google, and maybe even Nvidia
News Intel's 14A process node and die-stacking EMIB are the favoured technologies.
AMD stealth-launches a new low power version of its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card that could be great for a DIY Steam Machine, though it's only shaved 13% off the energy consumption
News At 140 W, it sits right between the RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 in terms of power munchies, and just above the Steam Machine's GPU.
Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering
News DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.
Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'
News And it's because of pesky DMA protections not being triggered to help out add-in PCIe cards.
This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is the cheapest one I've seen and will probably be better than anything new in 2026 because of RAM prices
Deal Get the jump on the impending RAMpocalypse.
Nvidia is reportedly looking to cut gaming GPU production by up to 40% in 2026 due to VRAM supply issues, but it's not as bad news as you might think. Not yet, at least
News There's already an excess of RTX 50-series cards, for starters.
'Give us the chip. Give us the RAM. Let us have our fun. Let us go nuts': Sapphire's PC gaming evangelist wants AMD 'to get out of the way' when it comes to designing graphics cards
News 'I personally wish they would let us be the companies we are in, instead of trying to create the mold.'
ZSA Voyager + Navigator review
Score: 78% Ultra-thin and compact, space-conscious minimalists will want to give this keyboard a look.
MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review
Score: 80% Taking one of the most over-the-top, luxury-class AMD motherboards around and making it even more exclusive.
MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher
News It's a bit like chip stacking but on the nanometre scale.
At $820, this isn't the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming PC I've seen but it does have one major plus: 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM
Deal Memory prices are going to be horrific for at least six months and possibly even a full year.
If 4K gaming is just too easy for your RTX 5090, then try it on Asus' new 5K ROG Strix display and watch it weep
News Or you could just use its 1440p dual-mode option and enjoy the 330 Hz refresh rate.
