Latest articles by Nick Evanson
It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
News Fixes are available, though 'organizations should patch urgently'.
In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia's brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games
News At least you won't need to dual-GPU your RTX 5090 rig anymore, just to enjoy a bit of physics-heavy Batman.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs you should build into your gaming PC.
Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2025
Cyber Monday Cyber Week's almost over, but there are still plenty of GPU deals around.
During Nvidia's formative years, its CEO reckons it 'had a mission statement for a company that has no chance of success' but it was fine because Sega's CEO thought 'Jensen was a young man he liked'
News It's easy to be whimsical about nearly ruining the company when it's now worth trillions.
Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027
News No guesses as to what customer all this money is really for.
Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it's the most comprehensive breakdown I've seen in a long time
News And the entry bar to the blocky sandbox world is very much a voxel-shaped potato.
AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more
News Best forget about doing any upgrades for a while.
Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
News Just remember, we're all Microsoft's QA testers now.
Black Friday graphics card deals 2025
Deals Black Friday is here and the furious tech sale is now firing on all cores, with GPU deals coming in thick and fast.
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it's ever been
Black Friday The RAM crisis can't affect processors, at least.
Thermal Grizzly Der8enchtable review
Score: 94% It's probably not for you but that doesn't stop it from being utterly brilliant.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder
Do it your way Mousing it your way.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Best gaming laptop 2025: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 40+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.
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.
The glorious sound of silence: Researchers have developed the 'world's first spatial active noise cancellation', which uses the power of a GPU to deaden whole rooms
News I'm going to buy one for every room in my house.
Going ham with RAM: Adata and MSI max out DIMM capacities thanks to clock drivers and SK Hynix stacks flash with DRAM for the ultimate memory chips
News Like we'll be able to afford any of it, the way things are going right now.
While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago
Back with a bang Good ideas just need more time in the oven to bake properly.
Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB Plus review
Score: 92% The best ergonomic gaming keyboard is now that little bit better.
