Latest articles by Nick Evanson
During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not
Going slow Does fast DDR5 make a difference to gaming, you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.
Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...
Don't fret If it's good enough for consoles, surely it's good enough for a gaming PC?
Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars
News Its market capitalization is higher than it's ever been for over 25 years, thanks to recent chips and deals with Google and the Terafab project.
Asus announces the ROG Equalizer: a new cable aimed at making melting GPU power connectors a thing of the past
News It's even compatible with PSUs from other vendors, as long as it has a decent 12V-2x6 socket.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas
News It's probably going to be the only bit of good news for PC vendors this year.
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.
Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899
News But for the right person, it's actually a bargain.
Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins
News Everyone wants a slice of the multi-billion-dollar AI pie.
SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs
News What's good for SK hynix and Dell isn't necessarily good for you. Yet.
Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'
News It managed to find a vulnerability in OpenBSD that had lain hidden for 27 years.
Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022
News Who needs DRAM in their PC anyway? Mine works on wishes and positive thoughts.
Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute
News Quite what Intel is actually going to do, however, is still very much unknown.
Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse
News We're talking AMD FX-series and Intel Core 5th Gen or older here.
'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past
News And for once, it's a positive news story about AI, too.
Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs
News Power from the people, power to the people.
It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.
Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
News Am I so out of touch or is it Nvidia that's wrong?
Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.
Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing
Dynamic And for some games, no amount of AI-generated frames will make them run well.
Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.
Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff
Warped speed Unless you've got a very specific setup that involves an Intel CPU, an RTX 5090, a 1080p monitor, and potato-quality graphics settings.
I've tested Intel's new Binary Optimization Tool to see what all the fuss is about and while it's almost everything the chip giant claims it to be, few PC gamers will ever see the benefits
Benching BOT It really does work but with so few CPUs and games supporting it, BOT will mean nothing to most enthusiasts.
