Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Asus and Noctua team up once more, this time creating a hulking three-fan, four-slot RTX 5080 chonk of a graphics card
Computex Their previous collabs look feeble in comparison, but I reckon they're better-looking.
For this year's Computex, Cooler Master showcases two new PC cases: a fresh look for the legendary Cosmos and a weird-but-cool goldfish bowl 360 Panoramic
Computex Buy a Cosmos 2025 and just move in. More space and cheaper than your average apartment.
Phison launches the first ever SSD controller to have built-in AI processing, along with some monstrous random data performance figures
Computex It probably won't appear in any gaming PC. Well, not yet, at least.
Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
Computex All aboard for the CAMM2 can-can.
Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D CPUs
Computex Up to 15% more performance with one click in the motherboard BIOS? Hmmm…
Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
news Forget ChatGPT and other LLMs, agentic AI is where it's at now.
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
Computex Shame you won't be gaming with the little box because it'd make for one heck of a NUC.
Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
Computex And unusually for Nvidia tech, it'll work with other vendors' CPUs, too.
Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
news Anybody want a bigger NPU? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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.
Keychron M5 review
Straight up This is what you get if you take an ergonomic, vertical mouse shell and stuff ultra-fast gaming hardware inside it.
Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
news "From the beginning, the company operated with a stunning lack of transparency that left impacted communities in the dark."
One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
news It's real, it's bling, its price tag is stratospheric: The gold-plated RTX 5090 from Asus finally goes on sale.
US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
News Sector-specific tariffs aren't part of the deal.
Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
Doom Drivers The frequency of GPU driver updates for portable PCs really needs improving.
Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
Rip and tearing rays Though once path tracing makes an appearance, all bets will probably be off.
UK government says Нет to British companies selling game controllers to Russia, to combat the use of drone attacks
News "Gaming consoles will no longer be repurposed to kill in Ukraine."
There's a 25-year-old piece of PC hardware that's still being used in even the most powerful gaming PCs sold today. Happy birthday to USB 2.0
news And it's not the only ancient bit of PC tech that's still inside your gaming rig. Well, sort of.
This odd but surprisingly well-priced mini ITX motherboard from Minisforum packs an embedded AMD X3D processor
News Its specs are far from perfect, but that price tag is very tempting.
Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced
News If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.
I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately
Faster arrows In one game, I saw a performance increase of over 40%, which is just wild to see.
A graphical history of Far Cry: 17 years of huge maps, epic vistas, and fast food fighting fun
Far out, man Open-world mayhem at its best.
