Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
News It's all about availability. Well, that and price. Oh, and performance. Maybe some better upscaling, too. You get the idea...
Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems
News Proof, not that it was needed, that you should always do a clean driver wipe before a new GPU install.
Microsoft nixes details of its Windows 11 TPM 2.0 security bypass though there are still other ways of getting the latest OS on 'unsupported' hardware
News BTW, Windows 10 support is ending shortly, too.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
News If Verstappen doesn't bother with motion rigs, maybe you don't need to either.
AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are officially arriving in 'early March' and they'll need to be stellar to rescue the company's nosediving gaming graphics division
News Help us RDNA 4, you're our only hope.
Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
News The PC isn't all about the latest tech.
'We launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud' reveals senior Nvidia suit reminiscing on the troubled launch of Nvidia's first RTX GPUs
News If RTX 20 series gains were negligible, what about RTX 50 GPUs?
AI may move at the speed of light but Nvidia's machine learning model for frame generation took 6 years to develop
News Turns out not all AI tech is dreamt up in a few weeks.
'Put them on the slides': How Jensen Huang invented and then announced Nvidia's DLSS AI upscaling tech in just two weeks
News The surprising and yet unsurprising story of how Nvidia's AI-powered upscaling came to be.
It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
News Intel might give Arrow Lake a polish in the meantime, but that'll be it.
Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia
News Another day, another Intel GPU cancellation.
Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop
News Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake won't be pure 18A, it seems... but at least it'll have some 18A compute.
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
New Intel Battlemage graphics cards spotted but they may not be the cut-price RTX 4070 killers we're all desperate for
News G31, G31, where for art thou, G31?
Forget DeepSeek R1, apparently it's now Alibaba that has the most powerful, the cheapest, the most everything-est chatbot
News Better than GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1, allegedly.
Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
News The catch is that it's only really fast enough to serve one user with semi-useful gibberish at a time.
Intel's modular designs could make your next laptop last longer, but probably won't deliver the holy grail of cheap GPU upgrades
News And how about a shout out for Framework?
If Trump's new threat of massive 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan comes true an RTX 5090 for $2,000 will seem cheap
News How about an RTX 5080 for $2,000....?
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $7,000
news Ummm, think I'll wait and try for one at MSRP, thanks.
Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer
news Official replacement parts plus repair guides should keep those peripherals going.
