Latest articles by Nick Evanson
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.
When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
Core concerns Heck, you can even run it on 4 cores and 4 threads.
I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
Borderline forked It's a big, bold world of stutters and disappointing frame rates, even on the best PC hardware money can buy.
Believe it or not, GPU prices have been decreasing of late and here are four graphics cards you can buy for under their MSRP
Deal There's only one that I'd buy myself, but one is better than none.
Naya Create review
Score: 68% When Early Access and boutique ergonomic keyboards collide.
Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh
News Truth be told, I think we'd just prefer to have Nova Lake instead, thanks.
OpenAI has teamed up with Broadcom to make its own AI processors, according to a report, possibly as part of a long-term plan to move away from Nvidia's GPUs
News Broadcom recently announced a $10 billion deal with one unnamed customer. Hmmm.
Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system
News If you've done some programming on an original Commodore 64, it's basically that one.
Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg, an entirely different Mark Zuckerberg. Although the one being sued is that Mark Zuckerberg
News You might laugh, but it's no joke for Mark Zuckerberg. No, the other one.
The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
News Still, any GPU from the past 10 years is nice to see.
Unless my eyes have been cheated by some spell, this is the cheapest RTX 5090 gaming PC with a 9800X3D I can find right now
Deal Who wants a Mearas when you can have this fine steed of a rig?
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.
This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
News The shape for today is a square. Organically square.
Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
News Hopefully, Nova Lake will be worth every cent.
