Latest articles by Nick Evanson
AMD drops a possible hint about how AI could be used in its next-gen upscaler package, FSR 4
news Does this mean RDNA 4 GPUs will have dedicated hardware for this stuff? Possibly.
No matter what gaming PC you have, you should disable DoF, motion blur, and vignette in Dragon Age: The Veilguard before changing any other setting
Someone somewhere must like the effects because why else would developers still include them?
Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'
news In plain speak: it's making better use of your PC's hardware, and it's really working for me.
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all making AI systems that will run your PC for you, doing online tasks like filling out forms, research, and even a spot of shopping
news Wall-E isn't a film, it's a prophecy.
If you're getting a new Intel Arrow Lake chip, don't bother splashing out on super-fast RAM
RAM for the Arrow What gains there are just isn't worth the extra cost.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K review
Tip of the arrow Designed by Intel. Made by TSMC. A match made in heaven?
Asus China's general manager shows off the deep details of Intel's Arrow Lake chips in new reveal
News There can't be many top managers as cool as Ordinary Uncle Tony.
Intel and Samsung plan to join foundry forces to combat TSMC says a major Korean newspaper
News It's unlikely that we'll see an Intel-designed, Samsung-made CPU in a gaming PC any time soon, though.
Fake online reviews and false testimonials are now banned by America's FTC
News The new rules also apply to ungrounded legal, physical threats, and other forms of intimidation to suppress negative customer reviews.
This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
News If you're keen on logging your logs, then the Throne might be just up your alley.
The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it
News The few that had already bought one will get their money back, at least.
Channel your inner Professor X by turning your gaming chair into Cerebro with this strap-on 7.1.2 surround sound speaker
News It might just help you to sit better in your chair and avoid the dreaded 'gamer hunch', too.
The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be
Alas, the technique won't work with microchips but there are other ways to peek inside those.
The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
News AMD is in a position where it can charge whatever it likes for its golden gaming goose.
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
News Has there ever been a major Windows update that hasn't messed up something somewhere?
Excess stock and poor SSD sales look set to pull flash memory prices down by up to 10%
news It's the same old story, folks.
'As far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.' Nvidia's CEO praises Elon Musk for a 'superhuman' feat
news Naturally, the fact that X has bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of GPUs has nothing to do with such praise. No siree.
'Correctness comes first. Performance improves next.' Fedora Asahi Remix project brings Windows PC gaming to Apple silicon Macs
news That's great news for Mac owners and potentially PC owners, too.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Pining for more USB Type-C ports on your motherboard? ASRock's solution is a wee bit extreme
news Just one or two Type-A ports around the back would be nice, though.
Nvidia might be considering using sockets for its next AI mega GPUs but that's not going to happen with its GeForce graphics cards
news For once, it looks like Nvidia is taking a leaf from AMD's book on how to do chips.
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard review
USB overload With more ports than a shipping hub, MSI's new X870 motherboard is one for the USB enthusiast.
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
