Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating
News At least it's easy enough to avoid, until Notepad gets patched to fix the problem.
Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out
News Seven M.2 slots sounds really impressive, but using them all means sacrificing a bit of performance.
AMD has a new marketing chief, Salesforce's former president and marketing boss, and he's all in on data centers and AI
News I suspect the new hire won't be tasked with solving Radeon's dire marketing, though.
If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update
News Of course, if it won't boot because the CPU is fried, no amount of BIOS tweakery will help.
Best CPU for gaming in 2026: 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.
Audeze Maxwell 2 review
Score: 86% The best cans in the business are back for round two, but this time, in a slightly worse package.
My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all
If it's good enough for consoles, surely it's good enough for a gaming PC?
Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military
News Unlike me. I have cake and I'm eating it right now.
RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience
Going slow And you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.
Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU
News Meanwhile, AMD's mobile Ryzens still give you the best of both worlds.
Not even Microsoft is confident that Copilot is right for coding, as it's encouraging staff to try out Anthropic's AI model, according to one report
News Anthropic is backed by Microsoft, though, to the tune of at least $5 billion.
Making the invisible visible, this engineering artist's creation shows the incredible level to which modern devices fill our world with radio waves
News It's a little bit spooky to watch in action, but I'd love one in my office.
Intel's in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: 'It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand'
News But it's 'aggressively as possible' in getting all other wafers out of the door.
Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
News No solutions yet, but it's better than staying quiet on the whole matter.
If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week
News So either face the storm now or ride it out for a year or so.
'I think this is crazy': Anthropic's CEO takes a potshot at Nvidia and the US government for selling AI chips to China
News It's not really biting the hands that feed it, more just a little nibble.
If you're tired of fighting with your mouse cursor across acres of multi-monitor screen space, Microsoft's latest PowerToys update has it all wrapped up for you
News To the top, to the bottom, to the left, to the right.
Nvidia allegedly greenlit the use of pirated books from illegal sources to train its AI models, according to an expanded class-action lawsuit
News The lawsuit from 2024 is back, this time with bigger allegations.
Doom, Windows 95, even Hytale itself: It seems like there's nothing that modders can't make Hytale run
News But can it run Crysis?
The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn't a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot
News One of Microsoft's veteran software engineers explains the full 'secret sauce'.
Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen
News It's not the end, but it is an end.
Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen
News We're all paying for sexy memory now.
Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production
News 2025 was full of tariff talk. Now it's 2026's turn.
