Latest articles by Nick Evanson
AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more
News Best forget about doing any upgrades for a while.
Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
News Just remember, we're all Microsoft's QA testers now.
Black Friday graphics card deals 2025
Deals Black Friday is here and the furious tech sale is now firing on all cores, with GPU deals coming in thick and fast.
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it's ever been
Black Friday The RAM crisis can't affect processors, at least.
Thermal Grizzly Der8enchtable review
Score: 94% It's probably not for you but that doesn't stop it from being utterly brilliant.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder
Do it your way Mousing it your way.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
The glorious sound of silence: Researchers have developed the 'world's first spatial active noise cancellation', which uses the power of a GPU to deaden whole rooms
News I'm going to buy one for every room in my house.
Going ham with RAM: Adata and MSI max out DIMM capacities thanks to clock drivers and SK Hynix stacks flash with DRAM for the ultimate memory chips
News Like we'll be able to afford any of it, the way things are going right now.
While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago
Back with a bang Good ideas just need more time in the oven to bake properly.
Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB Plus review
Score: 92% The best ergonomic gaming keyboard is now that little bit better.
'Once gamers try it, they won’t want to go back': The curse of wonky high-FOV graphics may be a thing of the past with this single plugin
News Ultrawide monitor owners, rejoice!
'This is cool and everything, but don't do it.' Sage advice for anyone hoping to copy the success of one Redditor's attempt at using Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark AI box to play Cyberpunk 2077
News Doom and Crysis are joined by a new game in a holy trinity of 'Will it run?'
PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem
News And you thought Intel's meltygate was all done and dusted.
A rumour that Nvidia will cancel the RTX 50 Super cards because of RAM is almost certainly nonsense but everything won't be fine, either
News Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
The age of beige is back! SilverStone's new case is a glorious nod to PCs of the 1980s and 90s
News That turbo button and lock bring back so many memories, though it's a shame the floppies are fake.
Now we've had Doom in space, it seems that data centers and even chip foundries might be next in line to orbit the Earth
News Because nothing shouts cost-effectiveness better than doing something in space.
Amazon threatens legal action against Perplexity over claims of 'illegal conduct' and it's all because of an AI shopping agent
News Perplexity says it's a 'bully tactic to scare disruptive companies…out of making life better for people.'
Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible
News It's the semiconductor version of one potato, two potato.
Apple's new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps
News That's an oopsy. Just a little one, but still an oopsy. Someone's getting a paddling.
If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI
News I worry about powering the sole GPU that's in my gaming rig, so that means I'm bonding with Microsoft, right?
