Latest articles by Nick Evanson
It looks like Nvidia's AI inference GPU won't see the light of day this year, which could actually be good news for PC gamers
News Vera Rubin, on the other hand, is all steam ahead. Which isn't good news for PC gamers, sadly.
007 First Light joins an ever-expanding list of 2026 games without up-to-date AMD FSR or Intel XeSS support
News Shaken, stirred, who cares? Just properly support all GPUs, please, not just some of them.
Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'
News Prices for server products are increasing by 30% per quarter, and general PC parts could follow suit.
A rumoured Intel Nova Lake mobile chip that's 100% E-cores with a beefy iGPU would be great news for handhelds, if it wasn't destined for edge computing only
News But that might not stop some companies from experimenting with it.
Guess what else the PC industry is short of now? Yes, that's right: multilayer ceramic capacitors
News You did think it was multilayer ceramic capacitors, didn't you?
'I don't think we're going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some…advocate or talk about': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong' about AI-induced job cuts
News Let's see if he changes his tune when AI agents take over from CEOs.
Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front
News Unified cores, the return of HyperThreading, and one socket across three generations.
If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap
News The RAMpocalypse is the biggest reason for this, of course, but it's only part of the whole problem.
You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock
News It's not an issue exclusive to Valve's hardware, but at the same time, it's something that shouldn't really exist
The latest 100% Chinese-made GPU may still lag behind an RTX 3060 but it could be the start of something big in graphics cards
News One giant leap for Lisuan, one small step for the GPU market.
If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
News For me, it's a vision of hell.
Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well
News Who's upgrading to AM5 these days when DDR5 is so stupidly expensive?
'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs
News Linux's creator isn't against the use of AI tools, he's just tired of folks using them and then doing nothing with what they've discovered
Overclockers squeeze a record-topping 9.2 GHz out of a 14900KF, just 800 MHz shy of the ten gigs that Intel promised us all those years ago
News But since it's just 1% faster than the previous record, that lofty goal remains just as elusive as ever.
'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much
News Less hot snakes, more hot wheels, please Xbox. Sorry, XBOX.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
We're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary
News It might just be a one-off, though.
Hot on the heels of Apple's iPhone-in-a-laptop, Google and Intel have teamed up to give us the Googlebook
News No word on the hardware yet, but Panther or Wildcat Lake are the most likely options.
Intel's 270K Plus is worthy of being picked by Thermal Grizzly as a delidded option, and it's even cheaper than a stock 285K
News One for the serious clockers only but I still kinda want one.
Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of
News All that glitters is not gold. Or copper, for that matter.
Even if you have an RTX 5090, I don't recommend using ray tracing in Forza Horizon 6. Not because of the performance hit, simply because it's just not worth using
News If I'm going to burn off some fps, then give my eyes something to go dizzy over.
Forza Horizon 6 PC performance analysis: Heavy on your CPU, with uninspiring ray tracing, but at least it all runs very nicely
Flying forza frames From handhelds to old gaming PCs, pretty much anything will run the new Forza.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review
Score: 75% It's the most powerful gaming CPU money can buy, but you really shouldn't.
