Latest articles by Nick Evanson
NASA manages to fix Voyager's garbled data problem, even though it's more than 15 billion miles away
news With hardware older than an Atari 2600, it's amazing Voyager 1 is still even running, let alone sending gobbledegook.
Homeworld 3's latest system requirements won't fill up your SSD but you'll need all the CPU and GPU you can throw at it
news How about a Ryzen 9 7950X3D with an RTX 4080, for ray traced space battles at 4K?
RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware
news Don't expect major changes to the architecture, as that's been all kept for RDNA 4.
Asus adds 'Intel Baseline Profile' to new BIOS files to combat stability issues but the TDP is still higher than Intel's actual baselines
news Is it really that hard to have a BIOS setting that enforces all of Intel's stock values?
With nine BIOS updates and a new warranty extension, Asus is trying its best to move forward from the ROG Ally's SD card woes
news There is one significant caveat with that warranty, though.
A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all
news My money's on the universe being like Civ 6, with its borked-n-bonkers AI.
Microsoft's VASA-1 takes AI-generated video one step closer to 'aw hell, we're all doomed'
news The researchers are targeting 'positive applications' for their work, so that's alright then.
Best external hard drives in 2024
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Best RAM for gaming in 2024: 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.
Do reviews of 'bad' products really kill off companies? Not according to one famous tech YouTuber and we absolutely agree
news The truth can hurt sometimes but if something's bad, it's bad.
Intel will have spent over $160,000,000,000 on new fabs, assembly, packaging, testing and R&D facilities by 2030
news Big bucks on big projects equals big expectations. No pressure, then.
Logitech's booked a seat on the AI hype train with its new AI Prompt Builder and forthcoming AI button-enabled mouse
news ChatGPT at the press of a button might not sound all that impressive, but it's surprisingly quite good.
Great Scott! Asus' Back to the Future cable-hiding system is no gimmick, it's the future of gaming and enthusiast PCs
Hidden treasure It's not cable-less, it's cable-hidden, and it's flipping brilliant.
Nixxes is 'sort of waiting for FSR 3.1' before adding AMD's frame generation to Horizon Forbidden West because it wants 'the latest and greatest before integrating it'
news Better to do it right first time, rather than just churn something out and have to fix it later.
Western Digital will be shipping 4TB SD cards in 2025 for handhelds, laptops, or anything that needs tiny-BIG storage
news As well as for anyone wanting to lose a mountain of data because they can't find it in a drawer.
Intel's new LGA 1851 socket breaks cover giving us even more pins to mush with an errant thumb
news Arrow Lake looks like it will give us an even better chance of ruining things when mishandling the motherboard. Sweet.
Which is the best $700 AMD Ryzen gaming PC: a handheld or desktop PC?
APU or handheld? Putting a Ryzen 7 8700G system in a head-to-head with the Asus ROG Ally to see what's what.
After two years of misery, global PC shipments have finally started to increase but only by the smallest of margins
news And the good news continues with AI PCs expected to have higher price tags. Wait, that's good news?
UK online PC retailer publicly rebukes claim it sent a customer an RTX 3050 instead of an RTX 4070 Ti
news It's not often you see this kind of thing escalate into wider viewing.
Intel investigating CPU instability issues after South Korean Tekken 8 players kick up a fuss: 'Intel is aware of problems that occur when executing certain tasks'
news It's not just reports of games crashing, processors are apparently outright failing, too.
Samsung predicts a bumper 2024, forecasting a 900% increase in profits for the first three months of the year
news It's good news for investors and the chip industry, but it's still half the amount that TSMC is making
Nvidia's mainstream GPUs might increase in price worldwide, as the demand in China outstrips supply
news You might want to wait until Battlemage and RDNA 4 are launched before getting a new graphics card.
Best AIO cooler for CPUs in 2024: I've tried all the best coolers and these are my top picks
Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.
