Latest articles by Nick Evanson
A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS
News Unless you're using liquid nitrogen, 1.2 volts is instant death for a big GPU.
'We don't have the capacity to support more than 2 colors right now' is the bizarre excuse X is using to explain why its dimmed theme was just thrown in the bin
News I don't have the mental capacity to understand any of this nonsense.
Don't ask 'why?' but this tech tinker turned the audio jack on their PC into a power button. A kinda borked power button
News Just ask yourself 'Well, why not?'
Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested
News It also warns that some current products may be pulled from sale due to the escalating memory crisis.
Intel is still committed to evolving its Xe graphics architecture, though it's only talking about AI data centers right now
News What this means for gaming GPUs isn't clear, unfortunately.
Intel has now rolled out XeSS 3 multi-frame generation to every Arc-powered GPU, after its first foray only on Panther Lake
News Alchemist and Battlemage, integrated and discrete, they're all getting the AI performance booster.
Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip
Third time's a charm And with better DRAM, it would absolutely fly.
Corsair has managed to 'successfully navigate a constrained global semiconductor market to secure supply' for memory, as its PC gaming hardware profits jump 60% in a year
News Its peripheral profits are only 6% better, though.
AMD's desktop CPU market share climbs almost 10% from last year, according to research, but it still trails behind Intel in every sector
News Team Red server CPUs have been selling extremely well, though.
The rumour that Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren't going to be melting your house down
News And it's simply because games just don't max out every single CPU core.
All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices
News If you're going to go over-the-top, you might as well go so far over that you end up as a small moon…or space station.
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.
