Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best cheap SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Instead of shelling out for an RTX 5070, grab yourself an entire RTX 4070 gaming PC for $1,200 instead
Deal Not that I'm expecting RTX 5070s to cost this much. Heavens above, I hope not.
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: 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.
Best CPU for gaming: 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.
Having spent many hours testing Avowed I've found these three top tips are the best way to boost the game's performance
Tweaking Eora It's not just monsters, beasts, and the undead that can give you trouble in Eora.
About darn time: Microsoft says it has fixed the annoying lag in Windows Explorer when working with cloud-based files
news It's been my biggest bugbear with OneDrive for ruddy ages.
Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console
news Poke ogre with a stick. Turn to page 23. You died.
GPUs powering AI will probably be the end of us all but at least they're being used to find small city smashing asteroids before they do
news Ten metres might not sound very big but just imagine dropping one on your toes.
Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors
news I know, I know. Rumours. They're just rumours. BUT I WANT IT!
Unreal Engine often gets flak for games running poorly or stuttering, but as Avowed demonstrates, it's really about how devs use it and the pressures of time
Unreal expectations Don't blame the tools. Or the tool makers. Or the tool users.
Avowed's low frame rates but smooth-feeling gameplay makes me wonder if we PC gamers worry too much about the numbers
Ignorance is bliss Yes, I know that makes me sound like a steaming hypocrite.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Avowed PC performance analysis: Sometimes good, sometimes bad, frequently odd
Avowedly odd Temper your expectations, avoid upscaling, and just go by feel rather than frame rates.
We asked a PSU expert which adapters or extensions are okay for the RTX 50-series. His answer: 'DO NOT BUY adapters or extenders, they can all be dangerous'
news Spending $2,000 or more on a new GPU? Then get the right PSU and cables to go with it.
Just in case you've forgotten all about them, AMD posts a less-than-convincing argument as to why AI PCs are better than any other type of PC
news NPUs are the key, apparently, but don't ask about what doors they unlock.
I've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
news Big textures go tiny but there is a price to pay.
Why pay more? This 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is perfectly priced at just $153
Deal IPS panel, high refresh rate, VRR support. It's all there.
Where the AF are all the graphics cards?! It's not just the new RTX 50-series that's impossible to buy, finding any decent GPU in stock at the major US retailers right now is like staring into an abyss of nothing
Barren shelves It's like the pandemic's back for another round of GPU misery.
Epic talks shop about stuttering in games that use its Unreal Engine and offers solutions to the problem
news To precache or to bundle your PSOs, that is the question. Fortunately, Epic has the answer, too.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is proof, if any was ever needed, that you don't need the latest graphics technology to have a great-looking game that also runs well
This year's bar Warhorse Studio has set the bar for others to aim for in 2025.
Not even the most powerful gaming PC is going to get around Civilization 7's ridiculously variable performance
Ping pong perf Strategy games are supposed to be all about the CPU when it comes to performance, but Civilization 7 will just stress everything in your gaming PC
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight
Medieval marvel And for once, upscaling is completely optional. Wait, this is 2025, yes?
Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have
Taxing turns Don't be fooled by how well it runs when you first start playing.
