Latest articles by Nick Evanson
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.
Alan Wake 2 set such a high technical bar last year that few games in 2024 came anywhere near, but it wasn't all abject disappointment
Year of the patch A year of great games and some great graphics, but far too much not-so-great performance.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2024
Gear of the year Last-gen doesn't mean last place as some of the best motherboards of 2024 ably demonstrate.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2024
Gear of the year AMD wins, no matter what. But which chip?
Out of all the new PC hardware in 2024, my top choice is technically over two years old. Even though it was new
Gear of the year Does that make it old-new or new-old?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming SSD of 2024
Gear of the year Big, little, or just plain portable, which SSD will take the crown this year.
At just $170, this 30-inch ultrawide 1080p monitor is the cheapest way to get into super-immersive gaming
deal Decent pixel density, high refresh rate, 1500R—it's got all the gaming credentials you could ask for.
Intel reveals the four fails of Arrow Lake in a new blog post, promising more performance fixes in January
news Too little, too late or just what the doctor ordered?
Critical metals for electronic components and gadgets jump in price, as China's trade restrictions with the US begin to bite
news Gallium, germanium, and antimony are all vital to the semiconductor industry.
Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers
news Do you want moderate, good, or excellent?
All of today's mighty CPUs owe a debt of gratitude to the Intel 8080, which just turned 50
news I bet Intel would love some of Mr Faggin's engineering magic right now.
Nvidia's corporate blog goes full fan mode with its description of Jen-Hsun Huang: 'Tech Leader, AI Visionary, Endlessly Curious'
news Good to know that Jen-Hsun will be wearing his leather jacket at CES 2025. Along with this unwavering vision, if you were worried about it wavering.
OpenAI claims Elon Musk 'demanded absolute control, and to be CEO' while also agreeing to ditch its non-profit status back in 2017, despite him now suing it for turning decidedly for-profit
news It's not just a case of 'he said, she said': OpenAI has released DMs and emails about the whole thing.
Shipping document suggests that a 24 GB version of Intel's Arc B580 graphics card could be heading to market, though not for gaming
news AI setups love RAM and matrix cores, so a stack of big VRAM B580s would be snapped up.
The next version of HDMI is said to launch at CES 2025, with 'a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates' and a new cable
news HDMI 2.1 is good enough for 4K 240 Hz so goodness knows what 2.2 will be bringing to the table.
It's the end of an era: Crucial starts calling time on its popular SATA SSD, the MX500
news Was it a good SSD? No. It was the best.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
Super resolution, super low price: This 27-inch 4K gaming monitor is a mere 0.003 cents per pixel
deal That's $280, to save you the math, and it's also the cheapest it's ever been.
Blacklyte Atlas review
Rising RGB Squaring up against Secretlab in the boutique gaming desk market? Bold move, Cotton.
Blacklyte Kraken gaming chair review
Painful perch Naming a gaming chair after a beast from the depths of the ocean is rather prophetic in this instance.
Just to cap off Intel's annus horribilis, Time picks AMD's Dr Lisa Su as its CEO of the year
news Definitely a better choice than last year's pick, that's for sure.
Raspberry's Pi 500 is the perfect throwback to the 1980s golden age of home computing and I'd love to relive those moments again with a modern machine
news Best of all, there's not a single cassette tape in sight.
