Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Further details of Nvidia's GB10 'superchip' shine light on the complex collaboration with MediaTek
News Though folks who have ordered one would probably have preferred to get the actual chip rather than just a tech breakdown.
Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
News Is the change to meet market demands or to have something to go against the inevitable RTX 50 Super models?
SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year
News This could be the turning point where we all stop going 'Eww' when we see a QLC SSD.
Gears of War: Reloaded PC performance: The updated graphics are easy work for any desktop GPU from the past six years but they're still enough to give handhelds grief
Re-re-geared You could use the potato-mode preset to get better portable performance, though your eyes won't thank you.
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.
Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) review
Score: 80% With a better screen and keyboard, this could have been Alienware's best-ever laptop.
While PC chassis manufacturers still favour black over every other color, at least you don't have to put up with rubbish if you fancy perfection in pink
Perfectly pink So long, beige boxes of ancient times, I certainly don't miss you.
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
News Eight channels worth of 256 GB DDR5 running at 8,400 MT/s CAS38 is astonishing.
Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
News Gimme. Gimme now.
AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
News Getting ready for FSR to be on par with DLSS. Maybe even better.
Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
News The overall numbers follow expectations, but there are some glitches in this matrix for sure.
Bing's latest 'just doing Bing things': Searching for certain AI models in Microsoft's Edge browser earns you a plea to use Copilot
News Bing doing Bing things: It doesn't do a great job of promoting Copilot, though.
Up to 700% faster than any interface in your gaming PC: PCI-SIG announces the specification goals for PCIe 8.0
News A 16x PCIe 8.0 graphics card slot could shift data at 1 TB/s, 7% faster than the VRAM on an RTX 5080.
'There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,' says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs
News Some US politicians may still believe otherwise, but the AI behemoth is adamant about its security.
Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest
News Its gaming earnings are way up, too, but it's console money doing the heavy lifting.
Ryzens and Radeons revitalise AMD's revenues but export restrictions delete data center profits, causing share prices to slip
News Believe it or not, Dell's had a say in the matter, too.
It's only taken six months but at long last, AMD's Adrenaline driver has FSR 4 support for Cyberpunk 2077
News Though the list of other games with freshly added FSR 4 support is hardly inspiring.
TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears
News A sentence of up to 12 years in prison and a $3.3 million fine could be demanded by prosecutors.
Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad
News Tech startups are nothing new, but this one might stand a chance of making it because of who's behind it.
AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline
News If it does happen, it'll be the first ever CPU with 192 MB of L3 cache in a desktop PC.
Intel's new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices
News Looks like somebody forgot to look up what cheap means.
