Latest articles by Nick Evanson
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.
AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute
news It's not much to go on but at this point in time, I'll take it.
Google's WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a 'septillion years' is meaningless
news Not that you'd be adding one to your gaming PC, sadly. Or any PC, for that matter.
Intel researchers create a method for AI-generating frames in games without added input latency
news It's the holy grail of AI frame generation: extrapolation, not interpolation.
FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat
news The true cost of generative AI is the erosion of trust.
Arctic's new fan-cooled fans might be for servers but I want a gaming rig full of them for the ultimate cooling kudos
news That and total hearing loss. Say what?
Ubisoft has fixed some of the issues with Avatar, Outlaws and the Windows 11 24H2 update, but the big three Assassin's Creed are still borked
News No 24H2 for you if Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla are installed. And vice versa.
Microsoft says 64 GB is the 'ideal spec' for Flight Simulator 2024 but I've tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference
All your RAM It's the first game I've tested where more than 32 GB is actually worth having.
Black Friday is over but AndaSeat is still dishing out the gaming chair deals, with up to $80 off its sublime Kaiser 4 XL
Deal If you have a fuller frame, then this AndaSeat is the one for you. Actually, it's the one for you, even if you're not.
Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark
news A speedy SSD makes all the difference but the Devil is in the details
OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough
news Not just tougher but brighter and more power efficient, too.
Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch
news Stop sniggering at the back, okay?
If you want to give your older gaming PC an early Christmas present, I've got the perfect system upgrade for you for less than $370
Deal Budget doesn't mean bad, especially when 3D V-Cache is involved.
The Top 5 Cyber Monday graphics card deals still available and worth a home in your gaming PC
Deal It's not been the best year for GPU deals but here are some that are genuinely decent purchases.
That $740 RTX 4070 Ti Super Black Friday deal, the one which lasted all of one day, is now back on thanks to the Cyber Monday GPU deals
Deal That's right: an RTX 4070 Ti Super for $60 under the launch MSRP.
Make your gaming rig as quiet as mine with a full sweep of new Noctua fans thanks to this Black Friday bundle that is still live
Deal There are cheaper fans and there are flashier fans, but nothing beats a Noctua when it comes to whisper-quiet airflow.
Sadly, the cheapest way to buy an RTX 4090 right now is with this horribly cynical Black Friday GPU deal combo which makes you pay to dispose of an old card Newegg doesn't want anymore
Deal We live in some truly bizarre times.
If it's a choice between an RTX 4090 or an RTX 4080 Black Friday gaming laptop there is only one smart option, and it's not all about the money
Deal It's all about the heat and noise, man.
Forget about all the other high-end Black Friday gaming PC deals, this is the RTX 4080 Super rig that you want
Deal $1,950 is a cracking deal and there's nothing around to touch it.
My favorite PC case of all time is the cheapest it's ever been thanks to the Black Friday sales, and that design is as classy as ever
Deal The wood front makes me feel all posh and sophisticated, which I am very much not.
I may not have beaten Alienware's discounted RTX 4090 machine, but I still say my PC built from the best Black Friday gaming deals is better
Deal Say no to proprietary nonsense and say hello to a serious DIY that will be ace for years to come.
