Latest articles by Nick Evanson
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.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch day: Where to buy the new mainstream GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card, including all those at MSRP
RTX 5060 Ti deals US shoppers might want to wait (or weep), but at least UK shoppers can rejoice a little.
As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
Core concerns E-cores and the loss of hyperthreading aren't helping Intel win any future gaming crowns.
App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
news The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.
The first leaked GPU specs for AMD's RX 9060 XT appear and it's pretty much an RX 9070 XT chopped in two
News Named and specced to meet Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti head-on.
MSI will switch to AMD chips for its high-end Claw handheld PC if the rumour mill is to be believed
News The current version uses an Intel Lunar Lake chip, which is potent but pricey.
Microsoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph
News While Chrome be all "you're getting performance improvements?"
Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'
News 'Copilot in the workplace, Copilot at home is the future of the company.'
The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren't more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?
Magic 8 ball Any performance issues you have in TLOU2 aren't down to a lack of GPU memory
